• Learn more about our work to abolish the money bail system (effective 2023) by helping to lead the legislative efforts of the Coalition to End Money Bond and draft the Pretrial Fairness Act—the provision of the SAFE-T Act (IL Public Act 101-0652) that reinforces the presumption of innocence and provides a way to preserve pretrial fairness while protecting public safety.
  • More information about Illinois’ first compassionate release bill, the Joe Coleman Medical Release Act, which will allow terminally ill and incapacitated people in prisons to be released to outside care facilities, which not only will support human rights and dignity, but will also save taxpayers millions of dollars per year.
  • More information about how we helped hundreds of thousands of Cook County voters make educated decisions of judicial elections through VoteforJudges.org and our collaboration partners.
  • Learn more about our collaboration with the Transit Table to enact the License to Work Act which creates a pathway for over 75,000 Illinois drivers to get their licenses back after suspensions for unpaid parking and non-driving ticket debts, and helped expand that success with additional protections in IL Public Act 101-0652 against red light and automatic speed camera tickets.
  • Learn more about our efforts to expose the failure of some judges in Cook County to properly record remote eviction hearings, which is essential to preserve litigants’ appellate rights and help make our courts more transparent and accountable.
  • More information about how we helped protect public health by successfully advocating, with over sixty other community-based organizations, that the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) prioritize people in jails and prisons in the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout plan
  • See the findings from our analysis of over half a million arrest records from the Chicago Police Department and found thousands of cases of people who were held for longer than 48 hours past the initial point of arrest before ever being charged with a crime.
  • More information about our progress report on Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez’s first one-hundred days in office, finding that—although community access to information is fundamental—inefficiencies and a lack of transparency may have carried over from the prior administration.