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Cook County’s top prosecutor questions safety of electronic monitoring under chief judge
State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed.
Amid Calls to Reform Bail, Judges in St. Louis Embrace Ankle Monitors
Proponents say the devices have helped address inequities in the criminal justice system. But many defendants have ...
Chief judge takes over electronic monitoring for Cook County, but questions remain about staffing
The Cook County sheriff's office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge ...
Contentious overhaul of electronic-monitoring program in Cook County arriving after brewing for years
After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new ...
WWLTV27d
Questions raised after judge removed accused killer from electronic monitoring
including conditions regarding his court-ordered electronic ankle monitor. Now, Mckenzie Fair stands booked with second-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Reynard Cennett ...
ABC 7 Chicago29d
In first 100 days, Cook Co. SA O'Neill Burke focusing on guns, domestic violence cases
And they can track where else that gun has been used," O'Neill Burke said. Electronic monitoring is ... p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew for those wearing ankle monitors. Many have been accused of violent ...
WBEZ9d
Chief judge takes over electronic monitoring for Cook County, but questions remain about staffing
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will still monitor the 1,500 people currently in the electronic monitoring system ... The Chicago Police Department has used gun buybacks to get thousands of guns ...