Thanks to a tremendous outpouring of opposition from community members and organizations, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office withdrew its request to purchase BriefCam for monitoring people incarcerated in Cook County Jail from the County Board’s Technology Committee meeting agenda. This fight is far from over, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has indicated that they plan to bring this proposal to the board in June.

If you’d like to learn more about Briefcam and why the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice is opposing its use in Cook County Jail, we recommend reading these articles from the Chicago Reader & the Chicago Sun-Times. You can also read our letter to the county board here.

Stay tuned for next steps in the fight to keep this harmful AI technology out of Cook County Jail.