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Regulating Stingray Technology: A Statement from the Chicago Council of Lawyers

he Civil Liberties Committee of the Chicago Council of Lawyers has called on the state of Illinois to regulate the government's use of Stingray technology. On January 20, 2016, Representative Ann Williams of Chicago introduced Illinois House Bill 4470 to regulate the use by government bodies of cell...

A Police Accountability Policy Recommendation from the Chicago Council of Lawyers

Chicago Should Annually Disclose Police Officers Named in a High Number of Complaints December 2014 by the Chicago Council of Lawyers' Civil Liberties Committee I. Recommendation. Consistent with the March 2014 ruling of the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court in Kalven v. City of Chic...

Chicago Attorneys urge President Obama to release 86 uncharged Guantánamo detainees

On July 25, 2013 a coalition of Chicago lawyers issued an open letter to President Obama, urging him to release the 86 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp who have been cleared since 2010 for release by the President’s own Guantánamo Review Task Force, consisting of various agencies inclu...