ACLU Responds to Mayor’s Misguided Executive Order on Curfews in Chicago
Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued an executive order changing Chicago’s curfew laws without input or a vote in City Council.
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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.
The Independent Monitor overseeing the federal consent decree designed to reform policing on the streets of Chicago issued her fifth report describing progress toward implementing the decree.
The City of Chicago and Illinois Attorney General secured a three-year extension to the federal consent decree process.