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Presenting Our Strategic Plan

Dear friends, supporters, and allies, Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts is delighted to present to you our new strategic plan, which includes our goals for the next three years (2025-2028). This year, 2025, is a pivotal year for our organization. Chicago Appleseed (formerly known...

VICTORY: Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring Program Will be Phased Out!

This morning - Thursday, November 21, 2024 - the Cook County Board of Commissioners voted to pass a budget amendment that significantly reduced funding for the Cook County Sheriff’s pretrial electronic monitoring (EM) program. This puts the county on track to consolidate the two EM programs into one...

Public Comment to Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA): End Pretextual Vehicle Stops

Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts is a member of the Free2Move Coalition, an alliance of community and advocacy organizations working to create a safer, more racially equitable system of traffic safety in Chicago and advocating for the end of pretextual vehicle stops. Pretextual stops occur w...

Statement on RJCC Expansion to Sauk Village

Last month, the Circuit Court of Cook County expanded its Restorative Justice Community Court (RJCC) program into Sauk Village, a suburb just south of Chicago. The new RJCC is the first of its kind in Chicago’s suburbs, joining a line-up of Chicago-based RJCCs in North Lawndale, Avondale, and Englew...

PRESS RELEASE: Malcolm Rich, Founding Executive Director of Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, To Retire After 27 Years

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact - Stephanie Agnew (sagnew@chicagoappleseed.org) CHICAGO, IL—Effective March 1, 2024, Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts and the Chicago Council of Lawyers will welcome new leadership as the organizations’ Executive Director, Malcolm Rich (he/him), transitio...

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