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...
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) recently announced that they are undergoing a massive review of any inmates who may have recently been effected by an estimated 6,000 false positive tests for the presence of opioids. There were...
6 Tons Recovered from Narco Sub in Columbia Columbian authorities announced that they had successfully recovered over 3,000 kilograms of cocaine that was being smuggled via a “narco sub” off the Pacific coast, with an additional 270 kilograms recovered via drug...
State Appeals to 7th Circuit to Reverse District Court Ruling As we previously covered, a federal district court judge in the Northern District of Illinois had previously ruled that the Illinois statute covering firearms that included a provision that bans anyone,...
Trump Signs Bill that Criminalizes Deepfake and Revenge Pornography Earlier this week President Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law, which makes it a federal crime for individuals to publish, share, or disseminate non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI...
Montana Passes Law Prohibiting Law Enforcement from Buying Private Data As we have previously covered, privacy advocates have voiced their concerns in recent years over the vast amount of data that is being collected by private and government actors, some of which...
New Enforcement Plan Announced by DOJ As we have previously covered, from the outset of the new Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (“DOJ”), it had announced sweeping changes to who and what it would prioritize for criminal prosecutions and what methods they...
Proposed Bill Would Automatically Seal Criminal Records Assistant Majority Leader Jehan Gordon-Booth of the Illinois House of Representatives recently announced legislation that would automatically seal the criminal records of non-violent offenders. The measure, which...
Chicago Suburb Launches First Responders Drone Program As we have previously covered, law enforcement agencies across the state of Illinois were given the ability to expand their use of drones in their day-to-day activities last year under a new law. Now, Oak Brook, a...
