WATCH: No cash bail cases challenged in two Illinois Supreme Court hearings
How courts are handling Illinois’ end to cash bail is the subject of two cases heard by the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday. After a protracted legal challenge spurred on by state’s attorneys across ...
SAFE-T Act increasing expenses in Kane County, state’s attorney says
Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser told the county board the SAFE-T Act is increasing costs and is also too limited in ...
The Victoria Advocate21 天
WATCH: No cash bail cases challenged in two Illinois Supreme Court hearings
(The Center Square) – How courts are handling Illinois’ end to cash bail is the subject of two cases heard by the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday. After a protracted legal challenge spurred on ...
Better Government Association4 天
State Courts Lag on Electronic Monitoring Data Required by SAFE-T Act
As BGA Policy has consistently highlighted, Illinois’ judicial branch is not subject to FOIA, leaving entities like juvenile ...
WFMZ-TV2 个月
Illinois has put an end to the injustice of cash bail
All of this has now changed in Illinois. After the Pretrial Fairness Act went into effect in September 2023, it became the first state to abolish cash bail. That move was "unprecedented," said ...
Northern Public Radio14 天
4 years after the SAFE-T Act, Central Illinois lawmaker pushes a set of bills to address ...
Some state lawmakers are saying public safety issues can be attributed to a lack of support for police and bills which they say make their jobs more difficult. Republican state Rep. Dennis Tipsword of ...
WBEZ26 天
Don’t expect Illinois’ ‘truth-in-sentencing’ law to disappear anytime soon ...
Illinois’ law, passed in 1998 ... after getting criticized for passing the 2021 SAFE-T Act that eliminated cash bail, lawmakers and advocates tell WBEZ. Those concerns about appearing ...