12/06/2024

Courts

Raw cannabis odor provides cause for vehicle search, high court rules

Chicago Law Bulletin

12/06/2024

State and National Policing

Law & Order column: Sheriff’s Office unit honored for drug enforcement

Lake County News Sun, Opinion

12/06/2024

Firearms

Downstate judge’s effort to shoot down Illinois’ assault weapon ban put on hold pending appeal

NPR Illinois

12/06/2024

Chicago Police

Most crime in Chicago is exaggerated. But theft really is that bad.

Crain's Chicago Business

12/06/2024

Pretrial Fairness Act/SAFE-T Act

How grassroots advocates succeeded in ending cash bail in Illinois

KALW

12/06/2024

Community Response

Axing a guaranteed income program to fill the city’s budget hole will cost Chicago long-term, advocates say

WBEZ

12/05/2024

State and National Policing

Mount Prospect police switching to new body-worn cameras

Daily Herald

12/05/2024

Public Defense

Idaho Supreme Court rules State Public Defender’s Office must pay for appeal transcripts

Idaho Capital Sun

12/05/2024

Chicago Police

City’s speedy decision to settle with Dexter Reed’s family branded ‘fishy’ by Police Committee chair

Chicago Sun-Times

12/05/2024

Chicago Police

Family seeks millions from city after their 10-year-old girl was killed in ‘catastrophic’ police chase crash

Chicago Sun-Times

12/05/2024

State and National Policing

Sonya Massey’s family urges Illinois courts to keep accused killer jailed pretrial

The Center Square

12/05/2024

Reentry

Chicago’s new Director of Re-Entry brings experience of incarceration to role

WGN

12/05/2024

Reentry

Johnson appoints director of reentry to lead office to help people leaving prison

Chicago Sun-Times

12/05/2024

Pretrial Fairness Act/SAFE-T Act

Advocates, Massey family share concerns over Safe-T Act

WAND

12/04/2024

Youth

Detention center 3 hours away will hold arrested teens from Springfield area

The State Journal-Register