Hendricks County

And there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to the amounts collected when factoring in a county's population.

Hendricks County, with an estimated population of 193,510 residents, collected $44,204.20 in public defense fees in 2025.

Allen County, with a population of 402,329, took in just $4,247.

Mason said many clerk's offices are not entering the court's orders correctly.

And And it's not so much even just a matter of at that gigantic level, but even more at like at a county level.

Who can I talk to here in Hendricks County in Indiana? Who can I speak to to make this change locally for our school communities, for kids that experience challenges? So I felt that it kind of helped me out.

realize that I have more of an advocacy background.

I mean, I am a social worker at Trade, so I advocate for everybody else.

And then you get into central Indiana, Indianapolis, the urban areas.

And, you know, people could say we're a small Chicago, but we're more walkable, including our small main streets of Danville and Hendricks County.

And then once you start to go south, you have the architectural culture in Columbus and you have Brown County State Park, which is perfect for fall foliage.

And so you're starting to get into those rolling hills and, you know, through the Hoosier National Forest all the way to French Lake Resort and then onward.

He had been arrested just one week before he was last seen on May 7th, 1983, leaving a West Side bar with a man who had offered him a ride.

Two days later, a farmer in Hendricks County discovered McNeevey's body.

He had been placed in a shallow but visible grave.

He had been stabbed approximately 30 times.

Okay, you know what? We're going to give her four-wheel jamboree tickets.

Hendricks County Fairgrounds.

Don't do that.

Yeah, no, she can go.

So we knew we

wanted on the B&O Trail because – they had just completed between Hendricks County and Marion County.

So there was a gap between like at Raceway Road, which is where like the Hendricks County line ends and then Speedway.

So they just completed that.

Maybe it's maybe been a year and a half, two years now that it's fully complete.

Yeah, it beats when Diego was railing on transgender sports in the last election, right? But look, what I think, I don't think we've done a bad job on process and things like that, where I do think we...

where I do think there has been a knowledge gap for voters, and this was going back to my time as chairman of Hendricks County, was understanding who is down ballot.

Who are these county sheriff candidates? Who are the county council candidates? Who are my township trustee? Going and finding information on your U.S.

Senate candidate or your state Senate candidate is easy.