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In one of the most serious cases on the detention hearing call at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on a day earlier this month, a judge ordered a teen jailed
The Boulder County District Attorney's Office has debuted its new public data dashboard.
A task force established to assess data policies and transparency among state's attorney offices received a few suggestions to improve them.
The night before historic bail reforms were set to take effect on Jan. 1, Cook County court officials and workers were poised to implement the new system after years of seemingly nonstop meetings. They replaced all the paperwork used for bail-related releases with new forms revised to comply with the law that eliminates cash bail as a condition of release from jail, judges told the Tribune. ...
On each Sunday in July, the Tribune’s Opinion section has published original essays dealing with a problem that takes so much of our attention 12 months of the year: the scourge of gun violence in Chicago. We hardly needed to reiterate the consequences of the status quo: Gun violence undermines Chicagoans’ sense of personal safety and traumatizes the city’s most vulnerable citizens, it hurts ...