This has to do with privacy. If LoyceV has ability to unban, than with high probability LoyceV may has access to ip's of users like global moderators has
LoyceV does not have the ability to unban users. Adding forum users to a "whitelist" is a slightly different thing. And yes, global moderators do not see the IP addresses of forum users. Only forum administrators can see the IP addresses of forum users.
Only administrators have access to user IPs.