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Current System for Investigating Sexual Misconduct Complaints Against CPD Officers Welcomes Bias

Chicago City Council Should Authorize COPA to Investigate Complaints of Sexual Misconduct Against Chicago Police Officers A letter of recommendation from the Civil Liberties & Police Accountability Committee of the Chicago Council of Lawyers and Chicago Appleseed, written by Co...

Community Groups Monitored Cook County’s Central Bond Court, Data Shows Reforms Haven’t Stopped the Jailing of People for Being Poor

Coalition to End Money Bond Press contacts: Sharlyn Grace, Chicago Appleseed, 773-946-8535, sharlyngrace@chicagoappleseed.org Irene Romulo, Chicago Community Bond Fund, 312-553-0995, irene@chicagobond.org Volunteers report that the rate of pretrial release has nearly doubled, but further ch...

Announcing the Launch of the Chicago Data Collaborative

Seven Chicago Organizations Launch Criminal Justice Database The newly formed Chicago Data Collaborative unites media, advocacy, and tech groups to investigate Chicago’s criminal justice system via cooperative data sharing Contact information: Rick Tulsky, (510) 295-5832, ricktulsky@injusticewatc...

Immigration Court Access

On April 5, 2017, Steven Schulman, Pro Bono Partner at Akin Gump and principal author of the Appleseed Immigration Court Practice Guide, led a training for attorneys on overcoming obstacles in immigration court. The event was hosted by Latham & Watkins, sponsored by Chicago Appleseed, and co-spo...

Changing the Rules on Unpublished Opinions

In early February, Rick Tulsky reported on a dissenting opinion by Illinois Appellate Court Justice Hyman, criticizing the court rules concerning publication of opinions. Appellate and Supreme Court opinions are published when the majority of the court decide they should be published, but non-publis...

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