URBANA — A group formed in the wake of the deaths of two young women at the hands of a drunken driver is giving more money to two area police departments to help them do their work.

Jim and Barb Esworthy of Ogden announced Tuesday that the Journey Foundation, supported in large measure by the 4-H House sorority, is giving $5,000 to the Champaign County sheriff's office and $5,800 to the University of Illinois Police Department.

The latest donations bring to more than $120,000 the amount the group has given to local police departments to help them buy cameras.

The Esworthys and friends founded Journey after their daughters Jennifer, 22, and Jackie, 18, were killed June 8, 1997, by a drunken driver at the Kankakee-Iroquois County line.

Barb Esworthy said Journey doesn't actively solicit funds, but they continue to be amazed at the generosity of their own friends and family as well as the 4-H House sorority on the UI campus where Jennifer lived while she was a student.

"It's been 14 years. It's unbelievable," she said.

Journey makes its donations periodically to the UI Police Department and the sheriff's office when it has enough money to help the departments make a meaningful purchase.

UI police Capt. Skip Frost said his department plans to spend the money on a couple of cameras that the officer actually wears on his or her head.

"It sits above your ear, and you wear a thing on your head, and the camera picks up everything you're doing, whether it's a traffic stop, a DUI or contacts on the street. I believe that within 10 years, every officer will wear one," Frost said.

Sheriff Dan Walsh called Journey's donations to his department "invaluable" given the lean county budgets of the past few years.

"The cameras help us prove up cases. They help us in terms of protecting deputies if they are accused of things they didn't do and help us if a deputy does something he shouldn't have done. Mostly, they are helpful with DUI prosecutions so the defendant and jurors can see the same things the deputy sees," Walsh said.