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After years of community pressure, Cook County will begin the process of sunsetting the Sheriff’s electronic monitoring program. Today, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed a budget [...]

Yesterday, more than 50 community, legal, policy organizations, and service providers sent a letter to the Cook County Board of Commissioners in support of the proposal to streamline Cook [...]

During yesterday’s Cook County Budget Hearings, commissioners discussed a plan to consolidate the county’s two electronic monitoring programs under Pretrial Services, a division of the Office of [...]

In a September 17, 2024 letter to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, outgoing Circuit Clerk Iris Martinez threw a factless grenade at the Pretrial Fairness Act, attempting to discredit [...]

One year ago, Illinois implemented the Pretrial Fairness Act and became the first state in the country to completely end the use of money bond. It is still early, but overall, stakeholders across [...]

Today marks one year since Illinois implemented the Pretrial Fairness Act and became the first state in the country completely end the use of money bond. This historic legislation was designed to [...]

Today, the Joliet Police Department and Will County State’s Attorney Jim Glasgow held a press conference regarding 21 gun, drug, burglary, and retail theft-related arrests as part of “Operation [...]

In 2016, a small group of base-building organizations, faith leaders, policy experts, service providers, lawyers, and abolitionist community organizers came together to demand Cook County end its [...]

In September, Illinois successfully ended money bond with the implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act. Since then, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail and on house arrest [...]

Illinois’ chronic underfunding of public defense is a civil rights crisis. In jurisdictions across the state, public defenders are tasked with overwhelming caseloads and are often deprived of the [...]