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The SAFE-T Act incorporated provisions from a previously proposed bill, the Pretrial Fairness Act. The most significant change in this section of the Act is the elimination of cash bail and its replacement with a new process for pretrial release, which was set to take effect on January 1, 2023.
All of this has now changed in Illinois. After the Pretrial Fairness Act went into effect in September 2023, it became the first state to abolish cash bail. ... the jail population decreased from ...
The Illinois Supreme Court's 5-2 vote was partisan with Justice David Overstreet and ... the state's high court ruled in favor of the Pretrial Fairness Act -- a portion of the Safety ...
The Pretrial Fairness Act, part of the broader Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, eliminated the use of cash bond to grant pretrial release and went through several revisions ...
Additionally, Cadigan secured pre‑trial release on October 30, 2023, after his attorney, Justin Kuehn, successfully filed a motion for reconsideration under the Pretrial Fairness Act—a measure designed to eliminate cash bail—with Circuit Judge Robin Schmidt ultimately ordering his release.
Administering a new Illinois law that eliminated cash bail came easily to one of Rockford's newest judges. Here's why.
A former executive director of the group, Sharlyn Grace, helped draft the Pretrial Fairness Act which would eliminate cash bail. The bill was introduced to the Illinois State Senate in 2020, though the COVID-19 pandemic caused the legislature to shut down.
Though other states have tried, Illinois is the first in the nation to eliminate cash bail as a condition of pretrial release for criminal defendants What to know about the end of the cash bail ...