Courts and Public Safety
Chief Judge Evans Announces Annual Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month Courthouse Tours
By Sebastian James at September 7, 2012 | 11:58 am | 0 Comment
Circuit Court of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans announced the Annual Latino Hispanic Heritage Month Courthouse Tours of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, will take place on Thursday, September 27 and Friday, September 28, 2012. Co-sponsoring the tours are the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois and the Puerto Rican Bar more...
Cook County Clerk of the Court Brown Optomistic About E-Filing Expansion
By Sebastian James at September 4, 2012 | 2:35 pm | 0 Comment
Coming off the heels of her inaugural E-Court advisory Committee meeting, Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court says she is “optimistic” about an August 23, 2012 letter from Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride, in which he notes that the Illinois Supreme Court’s statewide plan to create uniform e-filing principles and standards is expected to be concluded “within more...
Clerk of the Circuit Court, Elected Officials and Agencies Sponsor Adult and Juvenile Expungement Summit
By Sebastian James at May 17, 2012 | 11:14 am | 7 Comments
The Honorable Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Honorable Anita Alvarez, State’s Attorney of Cook County; the Honorable Abishi C. Cunningham, Cook County Public Defender, the Honorable Thomas J. Dart, Cook County Sheriff; Dr. Byron Brazier, Pastor of Apostolic Church of God, NBC 5 Chicago, and an array of governmental, legal, community and more...
Preckwinkle, Superintendent McCarthy agree on ticketing for marijuana possession
By Sebastian James at February 9, 2012 | 9:52 am | 2 Comments
An excerpt from a February 8, 2012 story as it appeared in the Chicago Tribune: Drug enforcement measures in place for decades have filled jails with poor and minority offenders, marred police officers' credibility in the neighborhoods they patrol and fractured communities, Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and Cook County Board President Toni more...
Michael Masters, Executive Director of Cook County Homeland Security, Discusses Project Shield on WTTW-11′s “Chicago Tonight”
By Sebastian James at January 12, 2012 | 10:23 am | 0 Comment
Video and an excerpt from a story as it appeared at WTTW.com, Wednesday, January 11th: Project Shield, the federally funded Homeland Security program to install security cameras across Cook County, had problems at every stage of its development, according to a report released Sunday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general. Click here more...
Preckwinkle, Alvarez and Cunningham Partner With County Board on Key Public Safety Funding
By Sebastian James at November 18, 2011 | 9:57 am | 0 Comment
In a broad show of support heading into the vote on the 2012 budget today Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Public Defender A.C. Cunningham, First Assistant State’s Attorney Shauna Boliker and a bipartisan coalition of County Commissioners gathered to highlight the restoration of funding to the Office of the Public Defender and the State’s Attorney’s more...
2012 Budget , Courts and Public Safety , Elected Officials , President's Office
Pres. Preckwinkle Announces up to $1 Million for Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring Program
By owen.kilmer at October 6, 2011 | 2:25 pm | 1 Comments
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced today that her office has awarded the office of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart up to $1 million in matching grant funds to provide services for individuals who are put on Electronic Monitoring within the Cook County criminal justice system. The announcement comes on the heels of the latest STAR (Set Targets, more...
Courts and Public Safety , Elected Officials , President's Office
Military Vets Finding Successful Careers as Cook County Sheriff’s Police
By Sebastian James at August 10, 2011 | 8:19 am | 1 Comments
Five months after the Cook County Sheriff’s Training Academy was certified as an eligible site for benefits under the G.I. Bill, nearly one-third of those cadets graduating today are U.S. military veterans, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced Wednesday. Ceremonies are set for 2 p.m. today at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Heights. Graduation more...
August 1st is an Air Pollution Action Day
By Sebastian James at August 1, 2011 | 9:37 am | 0 Comment
Persons with heart or respiratory ailments are advised to limit activities and remain indoors. Participants in the Partners for Clean Air Program are requested to initiate their activities. The general public can help reduce ozone levels by limiting unnecessary driving, by using public transportation, by avoiding refueling, by avoiding the use of oil base paints more...
President Preckwinkle Announces New Leadership and Focus for Criminal Justice Agency
By owen.kilmer at July 6, 2011 | 12:06 pm | 6 Comments
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced today the formation of the Judicial Advisory Council (JAC), an agency under the Office of the President charged with the coordination and reform on the Cook County criminal justice system. The JAC will pursue President Preckwinkle’s campaign promise and long-standing priority of reforming the criminal justice more...
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