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IL EPA-Violation Notice-Sheridan Correctional Center

Publication • December 27, 2022

Filed under: Water

IL EPA-Violation Notice-Sheridan Correctional Center ILLINOIS EN·VIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 1021 NORTH GRAND AVENUE EAST, P.O. Sox 19276, SPRINGFIElD, llllNOIS62794-9276 • (217} 782-3397 JOHN J. KIM, DIRECTOR JB PRlnKER, GOVERNOR 217/785-0561 December 27, 2022 CERTIFIED MAIL #7011 1150 000108571934 RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Sheridan Correctional Center c/o Robert Dunn 401 7 East …

IL EPA-Violation Notice-Vienna Correctional Center

Publication • December 13, 2022

Filed under: Water

IL EPA-Violation Notice-Vienna Correctional Center ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 1021 NORTH GRAND AVENUE EAST, P.O. Box 19276, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 62794-9276 • (217) 782-3397 JB PRlnKER, GOVERNOR JOHN J. KIM, DIRECTOR 21 7/785-0561 December 13, 2022 CERTIFIED MAIL# 7011 1150 000108571873 RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Vienna Correctional Center c/o Chalen Tatum 6695 …

Seventh Circuit: Sentencing Court’s ‘Inoculating Statement’ Regarding Potential Guidelines Miscalculation Failed to Satisfy Conditions of Abbas

Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022

Filed under: U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Miscalculation of the Guidelines Sentencing Range

Seventh Circuit: Sentencing Court’s ‘Inoculating Statement’ Regarding Potential Guidelines Miscalculation Failed to Satisfy Conditions of Abbas by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit remanded to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois for resentencing where that court’s inoculating statement …

News in Brief

Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Alabama: Court documents revealed the week of Oct. 3, 2022, show that a former Brookside police chief, Mike Jones, was indicted by a grand jury for speeding and impersonating an officer. AL.com reported that Jones had resigned from his post as the town’s Chief of Police …

Illinois Law Protects Personal Data

Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022

Filed under: State Legislation, Privacy Act/Rights, Searchable Metadata

Illinois Law Protects Personal Data by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A new Illinois statute is the first in the nation to require police to have a search warrant or the owner’s permission before accessing their data on a personal device. The Protecting Household Privacy Act, which went into effect …

Illinois Supreme Court Announces Krankel’s Pro Se Posttrial IAC Procedure Applies to Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings and Clarifies That Krankel Procedure Applies to Both Appointed and Retained Couns...

Article • October 15, 2022 • from CLN November, 2022

Illinois Supreme Court Announces Krankel’s Pro Se Posttrial IAC Procedure Applies to Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings and Clarifies That Krankel Procedure Applies to Both Appointed and Retained Counsel by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Supreme Court of Illinois held that the Court’s pro se posttrial ineffective assistance of counsel (“IAC”) …

Seventh Circuit: Fugitive’s Cell Phone Tracked to Apartment Building Does Not Establish Reasonable Suspicion of Criminal Activity for Warrantless Seizure and Search of All Occupants and Apartments in ...

Article • October 15, 2022 • from CLN November, 2022

Seventh Circuit: Fugitive’s Cell Phone Tracked to Apartment Building Does Not Establish Reasonable Suspicion of Criminal Activity for Warrantless Seizure and Search of All Occupants and Apartments in Building by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that GPS location data …

Chicago’s Traffic Camera Program: Racial and Income Disparities for Black and Hispanic Drivers

Article • October 15, 2022 • from CLN November, 2022

Chicago’s Traffic Camera Program: Racial and Income Disparities for Black and Hispanic Drivers by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead Chicago’s automated traffic enforcement camera program is one of the largest in America, with almost 300 locations around the city being monitored by cameras. The red-light camera program was introduced in …

News in Brief

Article • October 15, 2022 • from CLN November, 2022

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by Arkansas: A Mulberry police officer and two sheriff’s deputies from Crawford County were suspended after a video surfaced appearing to show them beating a man suspected of making violent threats. Maine Public Radio reported that the three officers were videoed by a bystander as they held …

Chicago PD Is Spying on Social Media Using Fake Profiles Provided by the FBI

Article • September 15, 2022 • from CLN October, 2022

Filed under: FBI, Electronic Surveillance, Social Media

Chicago PD Is Spying on Social Media Using Fake Profiles Provided by the FBI by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Public records requests have shed light on a program within the Chicago Police Department (“CPD”) whose purpose is to collect information on people by surveilling their social media profiles …

Framed by Dirty Chicago Detective Reynaldo Guevara, Marilyn Mulero Is Exonerated After 28 Years in Prison

Article • September 12, 2022

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Wrongful Conviction, False Statements, Testimony or Documents

Framed by Dirty Chicago Detective Reynaldo Guevara, Marilyn Mulero Is Exonerated After 28 Years in Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On August 9, 2022, a Cook County judge in Chicago, Illinois granted motions filed by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to dismiss all charges against Marilyn Mulero, …

News in Brief

Article • July 15, 2022 • from CLN August, 2022

Filed under: News in Brief

News in Brief by California: The Daily News reported that two former police officers from Fullerton and Anaheim were indicted on counts of kidnapping while working illegally as bounty hunters. The former officers were Rodger Corbett, 49, formerly of the Fullerton PD and Kevin Pedersen, 34, formerly of the Anaheim …

Chicago PD Emphasizing Facial Recognition for Investigations

Article • July 15, 2022 • from CLN August, 2022

Filed under: Police State-Surveillance

Chicago PD Emphasizing Facial Recognition for Investigations by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A report from Business Insider made public an internal Chicago Police Department (“CPD”) presentation that emphasizes the increasing use of facial recognition to identify suspects in investigations. Law enforcement agencies have been making a lot of …

Illinois Limits Police Access to Data Stored by Third Parties

Article • July 15, 2022 • from CLN August, 2022

Filed under: Cell-Phone Location/Tracking Data

Illinois Limits Police Access to Data Stored by Third Parties by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Illinois recently passed the Protecting Household Privacy Act (“PHPA”), which limits state law enforcement access to data stored by third parties, i.e., companies like Google and Facebook, requiring warrants in most circumstances, and …

Richard v. Pfister, IL, Satisfaction of Judgment, Denial of Medical Care, 2022

Brief • July 6, 2022

Filed under: Failure to Treat

Richard v. Pfister, IL, Satisfaction of Judgment, Denial of Medical Care, 2022 Case: 1:17-cv-04677 Document #: 217 Filed: 07/06/22 Page 1 of 3 PageID #:2603 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION WILLIAM H. RICHARD, Plaintiff, No. 17 C 4677 v. Hon. Judge Thomas M. …

Seventh Circuit: District Court’s Failure to Exercise Discretion After Erroneously Finding Defendant Ineligible for Relief Under First Step Act Was Abuse of Discretion

Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022

Filed under: First Step Act, Selective Prosecution/Enforcement

Seventh Circuit: District Court’s Failure to Exercise Discretion After Erroneously Finding Defendant Ineligible for Relief Under First Step Act Was Abuse of Discretion by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois …

Inside Llinois Civil Commitment -Treatment Behind Razor Wire -2022

Publication • 2022

Filed under: Failure to Treat, Conditions of Confinement

Inside Llinois Civil Commitment -Treatment Behind Razor Wire -2022 Inside Illinois Civil Commitment Treatment Behind Razor Wire A report of key findings from a 2019 survey of the residents at Rushville Treatment and Detention Facility, Illinois 2022 Content Warning A Note Before Reading Some of the stories in this report …

Freedom Denied-How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis-Oct. 2022

Publication • 2022

Filed under: Pretrial Detention and Detainees

Freedom Denied-How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis-Oct. 2022 FREEDOM DENIED iii Table of Contents AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS P.5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY P.15 CONTEXTUALIZING THE CULTURE OF DETENTION P.53 1. Publicly Available Data Provide Little Insight into the Causes and Contours of the Federal Bail Crisis. 2. The …

First Study of Police De-Escalation Training Shows Impressive Results

Article • May 15, 2022 • from CLN June, 2022

Filed under: Staff Training

First Study of Police De-Escalation Training Shows Impressive Results by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A first-of-its-kind study by the University of Cincinnati (“UC”) revealed that de-escalation training of police officers produces impressive results in making police encounters safer for the public. The study, appearing in Criminology & Public Policy …

Dozens of Convictions Related to Corrupt Convicted Former Chicago Cop Vacated

Article • May 1, 2022

Filed under: U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, False Arrest, Police/Govt Misconduct

Dozens of Convictions Related to Corrupt Convicted Former Chicago Cop Vacated by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman According to the Chicago Tribune, Cook County, Illinois, prosecutors vacated 44 convictions related to convicted ex-Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts. In 2013, Watts pleaded guilty to stealing money from an FBI informant posing …