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Chicago police are accused of unlawfully arresting Julie Campos, a Southside Latina resident—who was 19 years old at the time—at her place of employment, a Family Dollar store located on East 79th Street.
Earlier today, the Chicago City Council adopted a hurried measure changing the curfew laws for young people all across the City.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued an executive order changing Chicago’s curfew laws without input or a vote in City Council.
The City’s Corporation Counsel is being asked to justify, identify or explain the authority and procedures that Chicago police intend to use to enforce draconian new curfew measures publicly outlined by Mayor Lori Lightfoot in recent days.
As part of the settlement in ACLU v. Clearview AI, the company is now permanently banned, nationwide, from making its faceprint database available to most businesses and other private actors.
For the first time in its history, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been ordered to immediately secure a qualified surgeon so that a transgender prisoner, Cristina Nichole Iglesias, can receive gender-affirming surgery.