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Governor Pritzker announced that his administration is launching an assessment of needs for those seeking health and mental health care from state agencies, an assessment that also will contemplate how Illinois can better coordinate this care.
In a unanimous decision issued late last month, the Illinois Human Rights Commission confirmed that excluding gender-affirming care from employee insurance plans violates Illinois’ civil rights laws, including protections for gender identity.
A vote on a proposed ordinance to empower the City of Chicago to use a discredited civil asset forfeiture statute in order to seize property from alleged “street gangs” was delayed in City Council.
On Tuesday, February 22, 2022, a member of the DuPage County Board misrepresented the position of the ACLU of Illinois on House Bill 4640, a measure regarding public health, currently under consideration in the Illinois House of Representatives.
On Tuesday, attorneys for Cristina Nichole Iglesias filed a response to the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) decision to approve Ms. Iglesias for gender-affirming surgery—but delay referring her to a surgeon for an initial consultation until mid-April 2022 at the earliest.
We filed a Human Rights charge with National Advocates for Pregnant Women on behalf of a mother who had DCFS called on her during birth because an Easter poppy seed cake led to a positive drug test.