In communities like ours, transparency is not a luxury—it’s a lifeline. Citizens deserve to know who they’re trusting to answer the call when an emergency strikes. But when hard questions began surfacing about the operations of the Keokuk Volunteer Emergency Corps (KVEC), the leadership didn’t respond with answers—they responded with silence, censorship, and eventually, complete erasure.

When residents began voicing concerns about delayed response times, poor management, and a lack of community accountability, they turned to the public KVEC Facebook page—a page intended to represent a taxpayer-supported emergency organization.

But rather than address the growing number of legitimate questions, KVEC Chief Dan Tillman did the unthinkable:

He started banning citizens from the page.

Blocked. Silenced. Ignored.

Voices from the very community KVEC is supposed to serve were removed, one by one, simply for asking for transparency and accountability.

And then—

he deleted the entire Facebook page.

No explanation. No announcement. Just a vanishing act.

This act of cowardice and concealment was not just digital housekeeping. It was a clear and calculated move to avoid scrutiny. To hide from the public. To escape responsibility. And it only confirmed what many feared: KVEC had stopped serving the people and started serving itself.

The deletion of the Facebook page was the spark that lit the fire.

In the aftermath, SaveKVEC.org was launched—not out of malice, but out of necessity. A necessity to provide the transparency KVEC leadership refused to. A necessity to restore trust, demand accountability, and protect the safety of our community.

We are here because we were silenced.
We will stay because we will not be silenced again.