SAFE-T Act

Visitors observed detention hearings, reviewed pretrial reports, and learned how judges decide release conditions when the state’s attorney requests detention.

The legislation is aimed at improving public safety, recruiting and retaining police officers and providing assistance to victims of violent crime.

Hearings have been longer, more deliberative – resembling federal detention proceedings

Public defenders, while supportive of reform, anticipate major workload increases

Courts will see longer detention hearings, new parameters for jailing accused defenders

He says other jurisdictions have experimented with extreme reforms of cash bail and have experienced disastrous repercussions.

Chief Reno states they will add body cams 1 and a half years ahead of state mandate.

On the next CapitolView, Anchor Fred Martino talks with Illinois State Senator Dale Fowler. Analysis from John Jackson of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute and Dave McKinney of WBEZ.

Abolition of cash bail was placed on hold in December pending appeal to Supreme Court

Both sides agree to timeline that would further delay Pretrial Fairness Act’s implementation