State’s Attorney Julia Rietz
Julia Rietz is the Champaign County State’s Attorney. She was first elected in 2004 and is currently
serving her fourth term as State’s Attorney. Rietz was born on January 21 st 1969 and is currently 50
years old. She is married to Allen Johnston, a retired Urbana police officer. Johnston and Rietz list an
address of 1120 County Rd 1800 E in Urbana, where Rietz keeps as many as 6 horses on a private ranch.
Julia Rietz was elected in 2004 with the hope that she would displace some of the corruption of the
previous State’s Attorney, John PIland. However, very soon after stepping into office, Rietz
demonstrated even great corruption than her predecessor. Repeatedly, Rietz has ignored and side-
stepped prosecution of crimes committed by police officers, including serious incidents involving police
committing rape, assault, murder, perjury, and obstruction of justice. With another election fast
approaching, Rietz has been making efforts at cleansing her public image, but committing some crimes
of her own in the process.
In December of 2018 Julia Rietz was caught instructing her staff to delete public records sent to various
State’s Attorney email addresses. Rietz was then observed selectively deleting critical reviews and
comments left by citizens on the Champaign County State’s Attorney Facebook page. Rietz was also
observed deleting many of her own comments and posts which, according to the Illinois Secretary of
State, which are also protected public records. Rietz also frequently bans citizens who post critical
comments or questions. On March 6, 2019 Rietz famously deleted an entire comment thread on the
State’s Attorney Facebook page about her office violating the Freedom of Information Act law, and
immediately replaced it with a photo of herself reading stories to school children.
Destruction of public records in Illinois is a felony offense. Because some of the citizen’s Facebook
comments were actual records inquiries, deleting them without response also constitutes a violation of
the Freedom of Information Act. The selective deletion of public comments, and selective banning of
citizens who make critical comments, is a fundamental free speech violation. Such behavior is not only
illegal, but intellectually dishonest and reprehensible for an elected public official. This website was
created so that there could exist a public repository of articles and comments that Julia Rietz cannot
tamper with. We invite you to leave comments below. If you are aware of corruption within the
Champaign County State’s Attorney Office that needs to be investigated, please contact us.
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