Support for Changes to Chicago’s Vehicle Impoundment Ordinance

We must not fund our courts, nor our government, through systems of fines and fees that present a disproportionate burden to our economically vulnerable community members. Reducing punitive fines and fees and restructuring enforcement mechanisms to relieve burdens on the most economically vulner...
June 29, 2020

Law Professor Dan Coyne Named Independent Reviewer of Burge Torture Claims

On May 6, the Chicago City Council, after years of pressure by community organizations, passed the Budget Reparations Ordinance, a $5.5 million fund to make financial amends to black Chicagoans systematically tortured by former Chicago Police Commander John Burge and his officers between 1972 and 19...
July 1, 2015

Did you vote in the judicial retention election last year?

Did you vote in the judicial retention election last year? Chances are that you did not. There were 59 judges on the retention ballot and their names were listed in a seemingly random order—not alphabetical, not grouped by court division, just 59 names and the questioned “should this judge be retai...
February 19, 2013

City of Chicago Crowdsources Ethics Reform

At https://webapps.cityofchicago.org/EthicsTaskForce/ you’ll find a growing debate among Chicagoans about how to address ethics problems that have plagued the city for years. The discussion board style site currently lists three topical forums: What ethics related requirement or reform would stre...
January 24, 2012
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