Medicaid Expansion and the Access to Community Treatment Court

The fate of the Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid expansion, is uncertain. Illinois was one of the first states to embrace the Medicaid expansion in 2013, and it was instrumental in supporting the Access to Community Treatment court, a project of Chicago Appleseed. The Access to Community Treatm...
December 22, 2016

Chicago Appleseed at NACM 2016 presenting on Criminal Justice Reform

At this year's National Association of Case Management (NACM) conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (July 10-14) Ali Abid, Senior Criminal Justice Policy Analyst at Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and Peter Coolsen, Court Administrator for the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court of Cook Count...
July 11, 2016

Cook County Drug Field Testing Pilot Program Second Quarterly Report

  Included here is the second quarterly report of the program study committee for the pilot drug field testing program created under 50 ILCS 737/1. The Cook County Pilot Drug Field-Testing Program was brought about to reduce the average time in jail between arrest and preliminary hearing for...
April 11, 2016

Drug Field-Testing Pilot Study Committee meeting minutes

The first meeting of the HB356 Drug Field Testing Pilot Study Committee met on November 13, 2015. The purpose of the pilot program is to being field testing of alleged drug samples shortly after arrest so that defendant may move to preliminary hearing more quickly than had otherwise been occurring a...
November 13, 2015
Illinois State Capitol, Photo by Daniel Schwen

Chicago Appleseed Placed on Study Committee for Drug Field-Testing Program

On August 21, 2015, HB356, a bill establishing a pilot drug field-testing program was enacted, having passed both houses of the Illinois legislature and being signed by Governor Rauner. The bill, chiefly sponsored by Representative Zalewski in the House and Senator Harmon in the Senate, was develope...
September 14, 2015
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