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CULTURALSHIFT First minority voted to lead McHenry County Bar
Was awarded $107K state grant to revamp network By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Whether faced with a dangerous storm or potential violent threat, McHenry County College police officers can now have eyes on the situation from anywhere. A $107,000 state grant recently awarded to the college as part of the Illinois School and Campus Safety Grant program will allow campus police officers the ability to view the college’s cameras on smart phones and tablets from remote locations. Mike Clesceri, executive director of public safety and facilities at MCC, said all of the campus’ 60 cameras would be compatible with the new system. With only two officers on at a time, Clesceri said the new technology would allow officers to patrol the campus while still being able to tap in to videos right away if a hitand-run is reported or other incidents than can be picked up by cameras. “Let’s say we have a bad rain storm and we needed to access cameras to see parts of the property that could be affected,” Clesceri said. “We could do that and respond no
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Carlos Arévalo of Marengo is the first Hispanic to be named president of the McHenry County Bar Association. By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com There’s a cultural shift afoot within the McHenry County Bar Association. For the first time in the organization’s 100-year history, a minority has been selected as president of the profession-
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al organization for attorneys, judges and paralegals. Carlos Arévalo, a partner and municipal attorney at Crystal Lake-based Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle, unanimously was selected to lead the 400-person bar. He took over July 1. For Arévalo, the appoint-
ment signifies a change in the landscape of a profession that for years has been defined by two words: white and male. “I think we’re ready to have somebody like me lead the bar,” he said. Arévalo immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador when he was 14 years old to meet
his mother who already had been here a few years. She fled her native country where she worked as an office assistant, to New York City where her jobs were limited to city’s textile factories. The Rhode Island public
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We are all benefited by the differences we bring to the table.” Carlos Arévalo, partner and municipal attorney at Crystal Lake-based Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle, about what his appointment
“Colleges have been a target of active shooters in the past. A new surveillance platform allows us to have remote access to track a suspect’s movements, which will assist in our response.” Mike Clesceri, Executive director of public safety and facilities at McHenry County College
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New contraception case looms for justices By MARK SHERMAN and RACHEL ZOLL The Associated Press WASHINGTON – How much distance from an immoral act is enough? That’s the difficult question behind the next legal dispute over religion, birth control and the health law that is likely to be resolved by the Supreme Court. The issue in more than four dozen lawsuits from faith-affiliated charities, colleges and hospitals that oppose some or all contraception as immoral is how far the Obama administration must go to accommodate them.
The justices on June 30 relieved businesses with religious objections of their obligation to pay for women’s contraceptives among a range of preventive services the new law calls for in their health plans. Religious-oriented nonprofit groups already could opt out of covering the contraceptives. But the organizations say the accommodation provided by the administration does not go far enough because, though they are not on the hook financially, they remain complicit in the provision of government-approved contraceptives to women covered by their plans.
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“Anything that forces unwilling religious believers to be part of the system is not going to pass the test,” said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents many of the faith-affiliated nonprofits. Hobby Lobby Inc., winner of its Supreme Court case last month, also is a Becket Fund client. The high court will be asked to take on the issue in its term that begins in October. A challenge from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, probably will be the first case to reach the court. The Obama administration argues that the accommoda-
tion creates a generous moral and financial buffer between religious objectors and funding birth control. The nonprofit groups just have to raise their hands and say that paying for any or all of the 20 devices and methods approved by government regulators would violate their religious beliefs. To do so, they must fill out a government document known as Form 700 that enables their insurers or third-party administrators to take on the responsibility of paying for the birth control. The employer does not have to arrange the coverage or pay for it. Insurers get
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A demonstrator holds up a sign outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 30, the day the court decided in the Hobby Lobby case to relieve businesses with religious objections of their obligation to pay for women’s contraceptives among a range of preventive services the new health law calls for in their health plans. How much distance from an immoral act is enough is the difficult question behind the next legal dispute over religion, birth control and the new health law that is likely to be resolved by the Supreme Court.
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