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Updated January 4, 2022 On New Years Eve, the Illinois Supreme Court issued an order directing counties across our state to delay implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act until the court has [...]

On Sunday, January 1, 2023, the Pretrial Fairness Act will take effect in Illinois. A Kankakee County circuit judge ruled that he believes the law is unconstitutional and today issued a final [...]

Yesterday, a Kankakee County judge sided with the 58 State’s Attorneys and sheriffs suing Illinois over the SAFE-T Act. While the Kankakee court’s ruling on the state’s attorneys’ [...]

Today, a Kankakee County judge sided with the 58 State’s Attorneys and sheriffs suing Illinois over the SAFE-T Act. This disappointing ruling is as political as the frivolous lawsuits that [...]

Tomorrow, oral arguments will be heard in a lawsuit filed by multiple state’s attorneys challenging the constitutionality of the SAFE-T Act, the criminal justice omnibus bill that includes the [...]

Today, the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate passed House Bill 1095 Senate Amendment 2, a SAFE-T Act trailer bill that amends portions of the Pretrial Fairness Act. The passage of [...]

Last week, law professors and legal scholars from across Illinois sent an open letter to the Illinois legislature in opposition to SB4228, the SAFE-T Act trailer bill drafted by the Illinois [...]

Yesterday, more than 400 people from all over Illinois converged on the Capitol in Springfield to defend the Pretrial Fairness Act from rollbacks. Today, the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice [...]

This morning, more than 130 organizations representing thousands of Illinoisans sent an open letter to Illinois legislators urging them to only pass amendments to the Pretrial Fairness portions [...]

In the summer of 2022, the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice undertook a statewide court-watching project to document the real human costs of the current money bond system and demonstrate the [...]