Lake County News is committed to bringing you accurate, up-to-date information about this beautiful place where we live.

Sometimes the information we present is controversial and as a result there are people who don't appreciate your free access to that information.

Over the last two years escalating attacks on www.lakeconews.com have sought to derail our ability to bring you that information. You've probably noticed that occasionally the Web site is slow to load or won't load at all.

Those people have gone to significant lengths to restrict your access to in-depth local news by attempting to destroy Lake County News.

Site attacks are a global phenomenon. Sites that have been targets include government, education and other news sites around the world for a variety of reasons.

Lake County News has experienced more than 70 such attacks since August of 2010, and the frequency is increasing.

We are working to mitigate the affects of the attacks and you will be seeing some changes to Lake County News, but the simple fact is that if somebody is willing to break the law they can derail a site temporarily.

Lake County News will not bow to the desires of criminals. If their identities become known, we will not hesitate to publicly expose them for conspiring to curtail free speech and impede your right to know what is going on in your county.

Please accept our apologies for slow load times and occasional site outages. These issues have nothing to do with the server load or number of people on the site and everything to do with a very strong desire on the part of a small group of local domestic terrorists to control your perception.

Despite the illegal actions taken against us and our news site, we’re not backing down.

Lake County News will continue to provide you with the best, most accurate and current information information that can be found about Lake County.

John Jensen and Elizabeth Larson are the founders and owners of Lake County News.

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