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“It’s a massive crisis throughout the state that has been created by Illinois laws,” said Adele Nicholas, a civil rights attorney.
The wait is on for a panel of judges from the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that heard the case to draft an opinion.
Oral arguments were heard regarding Black Lives Matter protesters arrested and jailed beyond 48 hours after a 2020 demonstration in Rockford.
Karsten Koch, 34, has been living with his parents in Nashotah, but he would like to move out to his own place in Hartland to be closer to his job but not too far from family. Hartland's police chief has warned Koch he's not welcome, citing the village's moratorium on any more sex offenders living there. In a federal lawsuit, Koch contends that the village's 2018 ordinance, applied retroactively, amounts to an illegal ex post facto law, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The "designated offenders" banned by the ordinance include anyone on the state's sex offender registry. Koch is l...