Case Date:

6/24/2022

Violation of the law at Bryan Park Pool

Case Date:

6/24/2022

Today, 6/24/2022, I was at the Bryan Park Pool with my baby and a group of mom friends who also have babies. Another mom and I were approached by one of the male lifeguards (named Will) who told us to stop breastfeeding our babies in the children's wading pool area and to do so in the bathroom instead. We quickly responded that we have a legal right to breastfeed wherever we are located and he insisted by asking us to leave the area. This is illegal and violates the following law: Indiana Code 16-35-6-1, a link to which is included here and states the following: "Notwithstanding any other law, a woman may breastfeed her child anywhere the woman has the right to be." Link: https://www.in.gov/health/wic/breastfeeding-information/

Case Date:

6/27/2022

Seminary parks is full of trash, abandoned personal possessions, and stolen shopping carts from local merchants. This area has progressively went downhill in the last months. Needs cleaned up and monitored mutiple times daily. People using park are breaking multiple laws every day. (Drug and alcohol use in public, public nuisance, fighting, littering, stolen property, camping and staying there after hrs, etc)

Case Date:

6/30/2022

The drainage issue near the water station is getting swampy in the big dog area. Removal of the plastic pools may help until the standing water can be renediated.

Case Date:

7/6/2022

Switchyard splash pad not working at 6pm on Wednesday, July 6th. It is dangerously hot and people are gathered here to cool down, many of them families with kids and people at risk. Today of all days the splash pad should be working.

Case Date:

7/12/2022

I was looking at a map of Cascades (Lower) today, as I am attending a gathering at Sycamore tomorrow. I also saw, to my extreme dismay, that the south entrance to the lower park is all pedestrian and bicycle! I am supposed to be attending a reserved gathering in Waterfall Shelter in week and a half. My right side is about 80% paralyzed. I can neither walk that far nor use a wheelchair to get there. I HOPE that this doing-away with the road is not permanent. This city is increasingly putting lots of money behind bike trails while doing darned near NOTHING for the physically disabled. I remind you that we too are taxpayers, as I have been here for nearly 50 years. I should be able to attend my paying group's function at Waterfall, as I have in years past.

Case Date:

7/20/2022

Is there, by chance, a lost and found for the Lower Cascades waterfall area? We may have misplaced a bag there. Thank you!

Case Date:

7/22/2022

Seminary park and surrounding area is progressively getting more abandoned personal possessions and trash/litter. The answer that I get every time is that the parks department monitors the area but can’t do anything in between the times it comes by the area. However I feel like some city workers are not addressing these issues due to fear and other known issues in the area. (Plus political reasons) More needs done and people using this area creating these problems need held accountable.

Case Date:

7/31/2022

Homeless people are again living in People’s Park. They’re using drugs, fighting, leaving trash everywhere, screaming and yelling, urinating and defecating and have taken over most of the benches and tables. It also appears that they are sleeping there overnight. We bought ice cream across the street and expected to have a nice Sunday afternoon in the park for thirty minutes or so… we tried sitting on the steps of a business on the opposite side of Dunn Street but the shrubbery nearby was probably soaked in urine based on the stench. We simply left at that point….. No other Indiana city of the same size and population has a homeless population of 1 % of that of Bloomington and that is directly attributable to the fact that Bloomington attracts these people by virtue of feeding them and enabling them unlike anywhere else in Indiana. I’ve lived in and near Bloomington since 1974 and this has simply gotten totally out of hand.

Case Date:

8/7/2022

There appears to be drug dealing going on in RCA Park. There is a black vehicle that appears to be involved with at least three undernourished pit bulls in and around the vehicle. If someone is approaching from the walking path the dogs bark and snarl. One appears to be secured by a thin rope. Why is there never a police presence in this area? I almost never see park security down here. It feels like parks and Rec has given up on keeping our parks safe.