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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 [...]

More than 40 academics and policy experts from across the state and country have called on the Administrative Office of Illinois Courts to protect the rights of people subjected to electronic [...]

Yesterday, the Coalition to End Money Bond and more than 40 organizations from across Cook County sent a letter to the Cook County Board of Commissioners to call on them to stop the expansion of [...]

This morning, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart presented to the Cook County Board of Commissioners’ Finance Committee. During his remarks, Sheriff Dart brought up the Pretrial Fairness provisions of [...]