Tag Archives: Pretrial Fairness

The City of Chicago’s contract with ShotSpotter, which was set to expire in August, was recently quietly extended by Mayor Lori Lightfoot to February of next year—while Chicago’s new Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson was campaigning in the fall. This maneuver is disappointing in terms of exhibiting the ci...

Housing; enter it as a quick google search and your newsfeed will be populated by articles describing affordable housing shortages, mortgage rate hikes, and local real estate developments. Take a cursory look at some of these stories, and it’s clear that safe and affordable housing represents a fund...

Since the Pretrial Fairness Act’s passage by the Illinois General Assembly in 2021, much of the media attention and public discourse has been limited to a few key provisions of the law that portend transformative changes to Illinois’ pretrial systems. Unsurprisingly, the law’s elimination of money b...

As the Illinois Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Pretrial Fairness Act, it is vital to remember that abolition of money bail - and the decreased jail populations that will follow it - is a safe, just, and effective public policy. A new research report from the Gugge...