Governor Pritzker Signs 2 New Gun Control Bills Last week, Illinois Governor Pritzker signed two new bills into law, one that strengthens gun storage requirements in the state and another aimed at improving the tracking of guns recovered from crime scenes by law...
Cook County Prosecutors Office Changes Policy on Alleged Officer Misconduct Disclosures As we previously covered, it was earlier reported that the Cook County Prosecutors Office kept a so-called “Do Not Call” list of officers accused of misconduct or viewed as...
Federal Government to Focus on Drug Prosecutions Through DOJ and DEA Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Acting Administrator for the DEA, Robert Murphy, recently held a press conference highlighting the federal government’s work on drug enforcement in the new year,...
Proposed Rule for Restoring Gun Rights Open for Comments from General Public As we have previously covered, earlier this year the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) had announced that it was transferring the mechanism that adjudicates applications for the restoration of...
Youtuber Confronts Airline Employee at O’Hare International Airport In recent years, a trend of individuals without any ties to law enforcement confronting others who they believe have engaged in or allegedly professed a desire to engage in sexual activity with minors...
324 Charged in Various Schemes Involving $14.6 Billion in Fraud Claims Recently, the Department of Justice announced that under its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, the federal government unveiled charges against 324 individuals, including almost 100 medical...
Supreme Court Upholds Concealed Carry Regulation Recently, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law that governs the issuance of Concealed Carry Licenses (“CCL”) and Firearm Owners Identification Cards (“FOID”), saying that these regulations did not violate the...
The United States Supreme Court just announced an opinion that clarifies what factors a district court judge can consider when weighing sentencing options in response to a violation of supervised release. When district court judges hand out a sentence on the federal...
Government Initiative Expands to Include Downtown Chicago and Transportation The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew S. Boutros, recently announced that the federal government would be expanding the “Project Safe Neighborhoods”...
The use of a so-called “John Doe DNA warrant” has made the news recently after a convict escaped from an Arkansas prison last week. The inmate, former police chief Grant Hardin, plead guilty to a first-degree murder charge in 2017 when his DNA was entered into the...
