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The Lightfoot campaign’s email to Chicago Public School teachers urging them to offer extra credit to students as an incentive to volunteer on the Mayor’s re-election campaign is inappropriately coercive and raises First Amendment concerns.
This Illinois House and Senate passed HB 4664 to reinforce protections for abortion and gender-affirming health care in Illinois.
The Illinois Senate passed House Bill 2542, a measure that repeals and amends restrictions and outdated provisions contained in Illinois’ name change law - one of the most restrictive in the nation.
Yesterday, a circuit court judge in Kankakee struck down parts of the SAFE-T Act, especially sections designed to end money bond in Illinois in just a few short days.
The Independent Monitor overseeing Chicago Police reform issued the sixth report on the City’s progress toward achieving constitutional policing in Chicago. The report continued to show that CPD is failing to meet many of the goals under the federal court supervised consent decree.
Today’s action on a trailer bill addressing clarifications of the SAFE-T Act will result in the end of the money bond system in Illinois beginning in January 2023. Detention while awaiting trial should never have depended on one’s wealth – and that soon will end.