AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
                     of Champaign County
                     Steering Committee
                     November 4, 2004

Present: Bill Brown, Brian Issleb, Esther Patt, Gary Peters,
Carol Spindel, Shirley Stillinger

Student chapter: Maeve Anderson, Vinay Tota

Absent with notice: Roger Clark, Susan Cohen, Stuart Laird,
Allan Levy, Stan Levy, Rocky Maffit, Stephen Portnoy,
Steve Shoemaker, Kirstin Solberg

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:45 p.m. by Bill Brown, vice-chair.
The minutes were approved as distributed, with the addition of the name
of Nick Lampson as present.

TreasurerÕs report:

Ward reported total assets of $1,933.47.

Assignments were made for the fall gathering on Sunday.

The marriage equality forum being arranged by Mary Dixon will be at
7:00 p.m., December 2 at the Champaign Public Library. Since this is
our regular meeting night, our December meeting will be postponed to
December 9.

There was discussion about unconvicted inmates in the Champaign County
Jail--that is, people awaiting trialÐbeing able to vote. Bill has talked
to the County Clerk and to the Illinois Division about this. He and
Shirley will try to meet with the clerk and the sheriff.

Bill will call Mary Dixon about the UniversityÕs receiving a donation
for a scholarship based on the religion of the recipient.

There was a meeting tonight on creating citizen review boards for local
police department. We will find out what the outcome of that meeting is.

Student Chapter:

Maeve reported that the students had been busy on studentsÕ rights
education:

they ran a half-page ad in the D.I. at no cost

they distributed flyers all over campus

Josh sent an e-mail, with the help of Stan Levy, to all U of I students

The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Shirley Stillinger