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Call to Action: Help End Driver’s License Suspensions for Nonmoving Violations by Supporting the License to Work Act (SB 1786)

Help End Driver’s License Suspensions for Nonmoving Violations by Supporting the License to Work Act (SB 1786) Elizabeth Monkus is a Staff Attorney and the Development and Program Manager for Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice. If you have questions about the License to Work Act, you can email her...

ABA Resolution 100A: A Victory in the Fight for Procedural Justice, Fairness, and the Independence of Administrative Law Judges (ALJs)

A Victory in the Fight for Procedural Justice, Fairness, and the Independence of Administrative Law Judges (ALJs): ABA Resolution 100A, August 12, 2019 In February of 2019, we released a report entitled The Need for a Central Panel Approach to Administrative Adjudication: Pros, Cons, an...

“Accountability Monday” Press Conference on the Inaccuracies of CPD’s “Gun Offender Dashboard,” August 12, 2019.

On Monday, August 12, we stood with community advocates and fellow members of the Coalition to End Money Bond to speak out against CPD’s inaccurate and misleading use of data on the “Gun Offender Dashboard.” In the attached video, Sarah Staudt, Senior Policy Analyst and Staff Attorney for Chicago A...

CPD’s “Gun Offender Dashboard” contains Disturbing Inaccuracies that are Misleading the Public about the Causes of Violent Crime

Chicago Police Department’s “Gun Offender Dashboard” contains Disturbing Inaccuracies that are Misleading the Public about the Causes of Violent Crime By Sarah Staudt, Senior Policy Analyst and Staff Attorney on behalf of the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee (CJAC) On Monday, Police Chief Eddi...

“Suum Cuique or why You, Lawyer, Should Not be Silent,” an Essay on Justice by David I. Schrodt

Suum Cuique or why You, Lawyer, Should Not be Silent Our electronic world is frequently disorienting. Indeed, it can sometimes be worse than disorienting. We can be in our safest place and receive words written or spoken by those with power that express or strongly infer that not all law-...