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Earlier today, Governor Bruce Rauner used an amendatory veto to try to reinstate the death penalty in Illinois, seven years after it was repealed by the legislature.
Khadine Bennett, Advocacy and Intergovernmental Affairs Director at the ACLU of Illinois, responded as follows:
Earlier today, members of the Illinois House State Government Administration Committee unanimously voted Senate Bill 3503 out of committee. The bill requires county courthouses across the State of Illinois to have clean, separate space available for parents to pump breast milk. The bill, which
Earlier this afternoon, the Senate Executive Committee approved House Bill 4469 on a partisan vote of 10-4. The bill expands the opportunity to vote for person being detained pre-trial and those leaving prisons in Illinois.
In a time when thousands of people are demonstrating to resist Trump Administration policies, the City of Chicago is championing legislation in Springfield allowing police to use drones to monitor these protests.
Earlier this afternoon, the Illinois House of Representatives by a vote of 64-37 (1 Present) approved and sent to the Illinois Senate House Bill 4469, a measure that expands the opportunity to vote for person being detained pre-trial and those leaving prisons in Illinois.
Today, the Illinois Senate Committee on Public Health held a hearing to assess the Chicago Police Department’s standards and practices for determining gang affiliation, known as its unofficial “gang database.” This so-called database in Chicago has prompted public concern regarding the potential