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The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections.
The proposed amendment adds a new Section to the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution that provides revenue generated from transportation related taxes and fees (referred to as “transportation funds”) shall be used exclusively for transportation related purposes.
The constitutionality of sex offender registries in the United States has been challenged on a number of state and federal constitutional grounds. While the Supreme Court of the United States has twice upheld sex offender registration laws, in 2015 it vacated a requirement that an offender submit to lifetime ankle-bracelet monitoring, finding it was a Fourth Amendment search that was later ...
On Nov. 13, 2024, the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held that the amendment applied retroactively and determined that the plaintiff’s damages were limited to a single ...
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The amendments roughly doubled the size of the Act based on its word count. [64] The Illinois FOIA became considered one of the most liberal and comprehensive public records statutes throughout the United States. [65] [66] The Illinois Municipal League opposed the changes as "overly burdensome" and "unworkable".
Some supposed defenders of the right to bear arms react with alarm.