The “Take It Down Act” and State Legislative Efforts Against A.I.-Generated Intimate Imagery The “Take It Down Act” makes it a federal crime to publish nonconsensual explicit imagery, including A.I.-made deepfakes, which was signed into law in May 2025 by President...
ICE Acknowledges Contract with Spyware Firm A letter dated April 1, 2026 may be one of the most significant, and alarming, surveillance disclosures in recent memory. In it, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons confirmed to Congress that his agency is deploying Graphite, a...
Supreme Court Rules Absconding from Court’s Supervision While Serving a Term of Supervised Release Doesn’t Atomically Extend Term of Supervised Release In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court weighed whether or not a criminal defendant’s term of supervised release is...
Technology Emerging as Crime-Solving Tool and Civil Liberties Risk Facial recognition technology has become a hotly debated issue in and around the Chicagoland, with a recent proposed bill looking to curtail the practice in law enforcement. The proposed bill, the...
Controversial Practice Already “Categorically” Prohibited by Lower Courts As we have previously covered, law enforcement’s use of “geofencing” warrants, which uses GPS, cellular networks, and Wi-Fi to track location information of potential users at a specific time...
Predator Vigilantes, Viral Justice, and the Legal Minefield As we have previously covered, there is a growing trend across the United States in which private individuals or groups seek to entrap, record, and expose suspected sexual predators through “sting”...
Landmark Ruling Finds that Conversations with Chatbots Generally Aren’t Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege With the rise of artificial intelligence and the popularity of chatbots, it was inevitable that courts were going to be forced to deal with a fundamental...
Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office to Take Lead to Prosecutorial Task Force Earlier last week, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago will serve as a lead prosecutorial partner on the...
Accusations of Widespread Racial Profiling and Mounting Civil Rights Lawsuits Following a year-long investigation, four members of an eight-person team working in the Chicago Police Department’s (“CPD”) Near North Side's 18th District, which covers parts of Lincoln...
Illinois Considers Proposal for Strictest Blood Alcohol Concentration Limits in the Nation Recently it was announced that Illinois lawmakers are currently considering a bill that would amend the Illinois Vehicle Code to lower the presumptive Blood Alcohol...
