Majority of Users Who Had Call Records Stolen Not Notified Earlier this year, at least eight telecommunication companies were hacked by the group Salt Typhoon, which is possibly connected to the Chinese government, with many high-end political figures as the target,...
Month: December 2024
Artificial Intelligence Policy for Lawyers in Illinois Recently Revealed
Illinois Supreme Court Releases Standards for Lawyers Using AI in Practice Following the recommendations of the a newly created task force on artificial intelligence (AI), the Illinois Supreme Court recently announced their formal policy and rules regarding the use of...
Cook County Sheriff Announces Plans to Discontinue Running Electronic Monitoring Program
EM Program to Shift Towards Program Run by Judge’s Office In another update to the ongoing saga of changes the Safe-T Act has had on the legal system, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that his agency would be phasing out their Electronic Monitoring (“EM”)...
Numerous Federal Prisons Set to Close
Plans to Abruptly Close Several Facilities Due to Budget Restraints Revealed As we have previously covered, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) has been grappling with several issues that have hampered the BOP and its ability to provide necessary support for...
Courts Continue to Grapple with Marijuana Uncertainty in Illinois
Supreme Court Rules Raw Cannabis Smell Justifies Search of Vehicle Just months after ruling that the smell of burnt cannabis alone cannot justify a police officer subsequently searching a vehicle, as we covered here, the Illinois Supreme Court found that the opposite...
Recent Reports Outlines Continued Issues in Federal Prison System
Lack of Staffing, Crumbling Infrastructure, and Presence of Contraband Plaguing Bureau of Prisons Following a series of unannounced inspections by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) facilities, the OIG recently released a publicly...
Police Arrest Canadian Duo Along I-80 for Trafficking Cocaine
Search Reveals Over $40 Million of Cocaine in Vehicle Illinois State Police brought felony charges against 27-year-old Vanshpreet Singh and 36-year-old Manpreet Singh, both from Canada, after recovering over $40 million of cocaine during a traffic stop. Police pulled...