Sunday, October 18, 2009

Logan County restricts access to search warrants

central Illinois county where five family members were found slain in their home last month hasn't made any search warrants accessible to the public in at least a year, violating state law, officials say.

"What you've been exposed to (in Logan County) is what I call county search warrant voodoo," said Steven Beckett, a University of Illinois law professor. "The practice you're describing, that's from another land, not Illinois."

Click on the following to read this interesting story:  The Hawk Eye

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