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The Cook County state’s attorney’s office announced Tuesday it will no longer object to waiving court fees for low-income defendants, a move it said was aimed at reducing racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

As part her effort to reform the office she will vacate at end of her term, the state's attorney says her prosecutors will no longer object to waiving fines and fees for defendants with little income.

Fines and fees are used to help fund the court system, but the office said “a disproportionate amount of its financing is shouldered by people of color and those living in poverty.”

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Tuesday her office is adopting a new policy wherein prosecutors won’t oppose requests from impoverished individuals who ask a judge to eliminate certain fines or fees.