Election Day May 6, begins a great opportunity for voters to return credibility to the Clark County court system. The recent scandal of civil rights and due process violations of Judge Jerry Jacobi's "drug court" has brought national attention and embarrassment to our county judicial and justice system. Whether or not you believe Judge Jacobi was complicit in the alleged illegal arrests by drug court employees, it is time for him to be removed from office. His actions following the release of the information concerning the drug court controversy prove he is in the least guilty of having little or no administrative control over his drug court system and his employees. Still to be determined is if his employees including fired director Knaebel were following direct orders from Jacobi in the abuses of power and violations that occurred on the drug court defendants.
The suspension and reassignment to another court shows that state judicial officials have real concerns about these illegal activities and non actions that may have taken place under Jacobi. These are serious and inexcusable charges which have already spawned a pending class action suit which could potentially cost Clark Co. taxpayers millions of dollars. Judge Jacobi has lost the trust of state officials and hopefully the electorate. Thankfully we have a good candidate to replace Jacobi in political newcomer Laura Harbison who has run a rather low key campaign but would be a welcome breath of fresh air in what has become a court system that the public has reasons to lose faith in.
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This is an important election year with three of the four county judge positions on the ballot, we have a chance to prove that we are an aware, educated electorate and won't just vote for name recognition. I implore you to vote for incumbent Dan Moore and Laura Harbison this coming Tuesday...Moore is a fair, honest good person and judge and Ms. Harbison will make excellent judge as well. We can send a message and take control of a broken court system, that from prior comments on my posts I know that a lot of you are passionate about...Make a difference and be sure to vote....
good post
ReplyDeleteI don't know Jacobi has a lot of signs out there.
ReplyDeleteYou should remind everyone that Indiana is an open primary state. So if someone normally only votes in the general, then they are most likely registered (unless they've moved or died) and absolutely CAN vote in the primary this Tuesday. A lot of people think you have to be registered to a party to vote on Tuesday!
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