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CHICAGO – Transgender individuals in the custody of Illinois prisons seeking treatment for gender dysphoria won a major victory after a four-day trial in East St. Louis last week.
As Illinois moves into its third week under a “stay at home” order issued by the Governor, police across Illinois are being reminded that their role is to build voluntary compliance with the order, not use it as an excuse to make mass arrests.
The below statement can be attributed to Karen Sheley, Director, Police Practices Project, ACLU of Illinois:
Below is a statement on behalf of the ACLU of Illinois, Uptown People’s Law Center and law firm Dentons, lawyers for the plaintiffs in Lippert v.
The below statement can be attributed to Heidi Dalenberg, Director of the Institutional Reform Project, ACLU of Illinois:
The City of Chicago’s reliance on aggressive ticketing and punitive collection practices to raise revenue is part of a troubling, nationwide trend that must be considered as the Supreme Court weighs a bankruptcy issue in an upcoming case, Chicago v. Fulton.