Joliet Council Candidate Files Complaint After City Officials 'Detained' Her for Questioning

JOLIET, IL – A Joliet City Council candidate on this Tuesday's election ballot said last week that she was "detained" and forced to speak to city officials about how she acquired local police officers' contact information.

Candidate Rachel Ventura says Mayor Bob O'Dekirk required her to speak to the city's inspector general about a matter that arose, "when a police union leader spoke during a public comment segment of (a recent city meeting) and questioned how (she) obtained a list of police officers' addresses for a campaign mailing directed to Joliet police."

Ventura gave reporters at The Herald-News a copy of her complaint letter that was mailed to the agency that regulates attorneys in Illinois.

"In the letter to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, Ventura made complaints against O'Dekirk and (Inspector General Chris) Regis, both of whom are attorneys," said the Herald-News report. "She wrote that the mayor, 'Informed me three times that I had to speak and meet with the City of Joliet Inspector.' She describes the meeting with Regis, in which she was accompanied by her two children and a local community leader as being 'detained in his office with the door closed.'

Regis is expected to report his findings Monday evening at Joliet's council meeting.

See the full Herald-News report for all the details.

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