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CHICAGO – Citing risk of harm to thousands of children in the care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the ACLU of Illinois has asked a federal judge to
Chicago – African Americans in Chicago are far more likely than white residents to be subjected to traffic stops by the Chicago Police Department, according to a new study released toda
This week, the Illinois House and Illinois Senate passed Senate Bill 1342, a measure designed to replace the Illinois Eavesdropping Act which was struck down by the Illinois Supreme Court earlier in
CHICAGO -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois today issued a series of privacy safeguards for the use of body cameras by police in the state.
A full decade after Illinois mandated that all law enforcement agencies in the state collect and record data about every traffic stop as a means of curbing racial profiling, a study today pointed to continuing signs of troubling racial bias in so-called consent searches by police. The