ABC-7 reported yesterday that the governor’s security detail had been shaken up. I had heard about this earlier in the day, but here’s the story from Channel 7:

The commander of the unit and his top two deputies have been moved out -and almost half of the governor’s bodyguards have been replaced in the first cut of a total makeover .

The commander of the state police executive protection unit, Lt. Tom Ceja, is being reassigned. Under Ceja, Blagojevich’s bodyguard detail grew bigger than that of governors’ Schwarzenegger in California, Pataki in New York or Bush in Florida. [Snip]

Captain Scott Giles is replacing Ceja, on Monday he was named interim commander. He has had a wide-ranging, 20-year state police career. He currently is chief of firearms services and paid almost 90-thousand dollars a year. For four years Giles was assigned as bodyguard to governor Jim Thompson.

Ceja’s top two supervisors were also removed Monday.

And the Bloomington Pantagraph had some backhanded praise for the governor’s reform efforts in an editorial this morning:

We hope the governor has learned that people are tired of the typical positive spins from his office staff, but do appreciate genuine attempts to clear up problems when they are pointed out.