Illinois Legislators Propose Law to Decriminalize “Sex Work” Earlier this week, two Illinois state representatives announced that they would introduce legislation this week that would seek to fully decriminalize sex work in the state, which would make it the first...
Investigation Uncovers Police Relying Solely on Facial Recognition Software As we have previously covered, law enforcement agencies across the country have begun to utilize emerging and sophisticated technology in their investigations, sometimes to catastrophic effect...
Proposed Legislation Would Have Effectively Banned Delta-8 Products Outside Dispensaries As we have previously covered, there have been increasing pressure from some lawmakers to crack down on Delta-8 and other hemp derived products as they have soared in popularity,...
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Reinstates Injunction as Deadline Looms In an update to our previous post concerning the implementation of a new law designed to crack down on money laundering through small businesses and LLCs, a three-judge panel in the 5th Circuit...
Class Action Lawsuit Alleges BOP Failing to Comply with First Step Act As we have previously covered, there have been numerous allegations that the BOP has kept inmates in custodial settings longer than they should per the various rules that govern how inmates’...
Several New Laws to Go into Effect in the New Year Many new laws are set to take effect with the new year, with several affecting the Illinois criminal justice system which will have varying degrees of impact. Some are instructive, such as providing law enforcement...
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,...
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”)...
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...
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...
