CCL Statement on Necessary Reforms to Promote Police Accountability

  The Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL) is calling for a necessary reforms to promote police accountability in Chicago. In a statement released this week, the CCL specifically criticized the terms of the city's collective bargaining agreement with the police union, which permit an officer to "c...
February 10, 2016

Budget Standoff Threatens Flagship Court Reform

The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin published an editorial by Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice regarding the impact of the state fiscal crisis on the state's flagship prison diversion program, Adult Redeploy Illinois. The full text is reprinted below and a .pdf is available here: In this week’s state...
February 4, 2016

Stories from ACT Court Ambassadors

At the Collaboration for Justice's Annual Luncheon on Friday, October 16, we honored the Access to Community Treatment Court of Cook County with our Commitment to Justice Award. We also recognized three extraordinary graduates of the ACT Court--Lester, Angelique, and Cynthia--who attended the lunch...
October 27, 2015

Annual Program Report for 2015

The Chicago Council of Lawyers and Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice host their annual luncheon on Friday. You can read the Annual Program Report for 2015. We hope to see you at the luncheon and thank you for your support throughout the year. Annual Program Report for 2015 THE COLLABORATION FOR JU...
October 14, 2015

Ensuring the Public Defense of Indigent Defendants in Cook County

The Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, a joint group of the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and the Chicago Council of Lawyers, has released a report on whether criminal defendants in Chicago’s felony preliminary hearing courtrooms receive the public defense required by the Sixth Amendment to t...
August 19, 2015