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A former employee of the Lake County coroner's office accused of making a secret recording of herself speaking to a grieving person while on the job in July 2018 has agreed to a plea deal to avoid a trial and a prison sentence.
Updated 7/7/2021 6:20 PM A former employee of the Lake County coroner's office faces felony charges after being accused of secretly video recording a grieving family in July 2018. Dana Dingman, 36, of Grayslake is charged with two counts of using an eavesdropping device without consent, class 4 felonies, and one count of official misconduct, a class 3 felony. Coroner Jennifer Banek said Wednesday that in April someone in her administration found a video on an employee's county-owned laptop that depicted Dingman telling a person that a family member had died. According to Banek, the video a...