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Why Indiana’s Attorney General is Suing the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office
MONROE COUNTY, Ind.–Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has filed a lawsuit against the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. He claims that sheriff’s office is not complying with state laws governing the enforcement of federal immigration regulations. Rokita says local governments cannot enact policies restricting cooperation with federal immigration authorities or limit the enforcement of federal immigration […] The post Why Indiana’s Attorney General is Suing the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office appeared first on WIBC 93.1 FM.
Letters: No 500-bed jail in Monroe County, People's Market celebrates Project DASH
No 500-bed jail needed Do we really need a 500-bed jail in Monroe County? We just had a new hospital built for 210 patients. At the Regional Academic Health Center, where IU Health Bloomington Hospital is located, they spent over $557 million to build this 210-bed hospital and 117,000-square-foot Health Sciences Building. Monroe...
Rokita: First way for immigrants to show value is follow the law
(The Center Square) – Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita carried out a promise he made two months ago when he warned communities that have ordinances or policies that go against a recently passed state law regarding immigration. Rokita sent letters in May to leaders in East Chicago, Gary and West Lafayette, as well as Monroe County, notifying them they needed to amend statutes or guidelines that he said encourage and welcome people who are living in or have entered the country illegally. Failure to do...
Attorney General Todd Rokita files lawsuit in Monroe County over unlawful immigration policy
MONROE COUNTY- Attorney General Todd Rokita today issued the following statement:. “After filing a lawsuit against East Chicago earlier this week, I am now taking similar action in Monroe County over an ‘Immigration and Citizenship Status’ policy, which we find also violates state law. After multiple conversations with...
Police find missing child in custody case safe with mother near Bloomington
A two-year search for a child who disappeared from Mooresville with his mother and her boyfriend in the midst of a custody battle ended Tuesday afternoon when they were located at a house in northern Monroe County. Investigators had tracked 31-year-old Deborah Bryan, her now 5-year-old son, and her boyfriend,...
Monroe Convention Center expansion: End of 2026 eyed for finish, $4.4M contract with architect OK’d
On Wednesday, a possibly 60,000-square-foot expansion of the Monroe Convention Center took a big step forward, as contracts with the architect and construction manager were approved by the Monroe County capital improvement board (CIB). The end of 2026 is the target date spelled out in this latest set of documents...
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