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Cook County to request pretrial detention in violent cases Cook County's new state's attorney has announced a change to the county's policy involving the controversial SAFE-T Act. Eileen O'Neill ...
For more serious crimes, such as violent or sexual offenses, if the state wants to detain people before a trial, prosecutors have to convince a judge and present evidence that they likely did what ...
The Act authorized two Cabinet-level federal Departments, Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS), to assist in investigations of violent crimes in public areas, but only after a request from a state or local law enforcement agency; the Act did not expand federal jurisdiction, and did not establish any new crimes, penalties, or regulations ...
Before Megan's Law, the federal Jacob Wetterling Act of 1994 required each state to create a registry for sexual offenders and certain other offenses against children. . Under the Wetterling Act, registry information was kept for law enforcement use only, although law enforcement agencies were allowed to release the information of specific persons when deemed necessary to protect the p
(The Center Square) – Around a dozen new laws go into effect Jan. 1 making changes to Illinois’ criminal justice system. Beginning New Year’s Day, law enforcement training will have a course ...
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, commonly referred to as the 1994 Crime Bill, [1] or the Clinton Crime Bill, [2] is an Act of Congress dealing with crime and law enforcement; it became law in 1994.
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.
Through the SAFE-T Act, a criminal justice reform bill, the end of cash bail will begin in less than three months. ... A massive crime reform package passed by the Illinois General Assembly in ...