I received this tip late afternoon. To the person who mailed it, there was no return address, you did not sign the letter and there is no way to trace your identity. There is no reason I should not include this screenshot and put it on the blog. You know that those afraid of the truth question me but not other local media.
In 2024, an email was sent to court staff by Humboldt Superior Court Operations Manager Scott Anderson about my blog. Only me. Other local media did not have those restrictions placed. Years before that, County of Humboldt and court blocked internet access to my blog at 825 Fifth street and when I followed up, the County blamed it on AT & T. I remember going to First District Supervisor Rex Bohn. No other local media access was blocked. These are just two examples.
It is time to start documenting the selective treatment and targeting applied to me.
The reason the tipster asked me to not to post the screenshot is selfish. I am the one who is constantly attacked, harassed, smeared, lied about and my livelihood threatened; most recently for my reporting on the Miranda's Rescue investigation. It happens a lot in Humboldt because we have cowardly local media. We have others in this county used to controlling the media. My reporting is inconvenient to other local media, the people who want control the narrative and the powers to be. What I do is journalism.
I am the one who risks putting my name and being threatened. This tipster is not the only one who has misused anonymity when it is unnecessary. I report what other media won't and that is why this information was sent to me.
The tipster also did something that others do. Not only to they misuse and abuse by asking for anonymity but expect me to spend time getting information and verifying alleged claims. This is because they are too scared to submit evidence they have.
I have no free time. I don't make money to cover my most basic expenses in Humboldt; I have to subsidize my reporting because most of Humboldt is cheap and selfish. I lose money and have no time to make money with the constant attacks and distractions. There is money in Humboldt and all my readers, especially the businesses, law enforcement and those at the Courthouse can afford to contribute.
Tipster made two other mistakes. 1. The p.o.. box was incorrect but I still got the letter. The p.o. box the tipster put is the one for court ops. Which means the tipster looked up my mailing address and wrote down the incorrect p.o. box and knew where to get it or this is a tip from inside the Courthouse because my address is not available to just anyone in the public. 2. The tipster wants me to believe that the tipster overheard two deputies on the second floor? I know most of these deputies. They would not do that in such a public place. Most of them are decent, hardworking men and women who take their job seriously.
Even the female deputy on the second floor who is extremely unprofessional and friends with the out of control male extra help deputy who I filed a complaint about are not that dumb. That obnoxious extra help male deputy who is no longer at a local law enforcement agency I respect is an ingrate. He is someone I defended in the past. HCSO chose to do nothing about my complaint which is typical for HCSO. I was also told by the lack of dicipline and consequences by someone who is no longer employed at HCSO.
Despite there being an attorney and another reporter who witnessed two different incidents and camera evidence; despite my telling Sheriff and Honsal and Humboldt County CAO Elishia Hayes that I would not go to a lawyer and wanted to resolve this; HCSO choses to allow this guy to stay because the good ole boys think they are untouchable. If this deputy treats me like this in broad daylight, then how are inmates getting treated.
No deputy would talk about a high profile case on the second floor. Unless those the tipster claims did so were doing so when they thought no one was listening.
If any deputy was talking about this on the second floor; then that is a problem for Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal to handle. Although, he shouldn't until he addresses potential conflicts of interest in the Miranda Rescue investigation.
That is if Billy stops hiding these days and decides to have cajones and answer Ms. Allison Jackson. Billy won't make a statement to media and public about concerns and questions I raised. Why? This is what happens when your daddy, a good ole boy, is buds with your former boss and other good ole boys and they hand you the job. Power goes to your head.
Tipster had you said one of the HCSO higher ups was blabbing, I would believe it because there have been loose lips about other investigations outside the Courthouse in public places. How do you think I got my Tyler Colegrove scoop about where the gun was found? The individual responsible knows who he is and where he said it and shouldn't have.
Whoever you are, I do believe you are sincere in your compliment to me and your motivation is to protect the rest of HCSO and the integrity of the local courts. If you don't want to send me more information; don't.
Anyone who read all my coverage on the Miranda's rescue investigation including exclusives a letter from Ms. Jackson sent to Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal which he has ignored. I called out Jody Honsal and raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest. All this before this letter and this tip because I do my job as a journalist.
Why has the other local media not questioned Sheriff Honsal about potential conflicts of interest?
A affadavit leaked to parties and certain local "media" convenient to the narrative of the pitchfork crowd who attacked me for simply trying to fairly cover the Miranda Rescue investigation. I am not pro any one other than pro truth.
I have submitted a PRA request to the County of Humboldt for the search warrant excecuted May 1 and also a request for any earlier application rejected by Honorable Judge Kelly Neel, Presiding Judge of Humboldt Superior Court.
I have no way of verifying if Billy went up to Judge Neel's chambers. The only way to get that information is for some people to have the courage to contact me and those people deserve anonymity because of the risk involved. I keep sources confidential when warranted. I don't like being told what to do or anonymity being used when not necessary and as leverage for information.
The reason Billybob Honsal and his wife Jody are so arrogant is because Billy has Bubba good ole boy Rex Bohn constantly defending Honsal. Google Sheriff Honsal and Humboldt County First District Supervisor Rex Bohn. Sheriff Honsal was the one to swear in Rex Bohn. They are often endorsing the same candidates. Any criticism of Honsal or HCSO and Rex pipes up in his defense.
Rex, who has made a career of the most terms by a Humboldt County Supervisor. Rex and his sycophants need to stfu about how hard he works when he is paid by the taxpayers for schmoozing and blubbering and embarassing Humboldt County.
Anyone can network and claim success when they don't have to earn it on merit, their paycheck is guaranteed, they get a travel allowance and their position makes people suck up to them.
I have zero faith in Sheriff Honsal to be the chief law enforcement officer of this county. It isn't just about the Miranda's Rescue investigation. I have covered other cases including the Ray Christie and Georgi Tonev cases and published what other local media ignored. The County of Humboldt is now in the midst of a federal lawsuit filed by Christie with former Deputy DA and now Deputy Public Defender Adrian Kamada, Honsal and extra help former HCSO Deputy Travis Mendes are the other defendants.
As for the people smearing me, you upset my readers. The pitchfork crowd and gossipmongers who have gone after me recently has bothered many. They see what I go through and your actions show them. I told them to save the screenshots. I was going to write about someone else who doesn't know me but has plenty to say on social media lately. I could have written about her recent court case and used it to show how she "weaponizes social media" and drama is her life. She is irrelevant and not worth wasting space. The quotation marks are words from filings in her court case.
Many of the people mouthing off don't know me. If they do, there is an agenda, bias or I exposed them. If anyone wants to believe ad hominem nonsense and online drama; they are worse than those stalking, harassing, smearing me. Trash and sewage in the gutter is cleaner than the mouth, minds and character of the destructive, toxic Humboldt haters who are afraid of truth and independent reporting.
