CCBF Rallies Outside Court Date for EM Lawsuit
CCBF and our partners in the Coalition to End Money Bond rallied this morning before a federal lawsuit was heard demanding Sheriff Tom Dart stop his unconstitutional “review” program and follow [...]
Courtwatching Report Featured in In These Times
“Chief Circuit Court Judge Timothy Evans ordered his judges to ensure “the defendant has the present ability to pay the amount necessary to secure his or her release on bail.” “Defendants [...]
New Filing in the Class Action Lawsuit Against Sheriff Dart
A new filing in the class action lawsuit against Sheriff Dart has revealed that Dart’s practice of unconstitutionally denying people release on Electronic Monitoring was much larger than [...]
South Side Weekly Reports Back from Courtwatching Event
“‘Even though the practices of bond court have changed significantly, we are a long way from where we want to be and where the order would like us to be,’ [Sharlyn] Grace said. [...]
Digital Prisons Webinar
Last month, CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes participated in a “Digital Prisons: Electronic Monitors Are A False Solution to Decarceration” a webinar hosted by the Center for Media [...]
Rally & Vigil to Defend Bond Reform in Cook County
Thousands of people are locked up before trial simply because they are too poor to afford bail. We have made progress in decreasing the number of people incarcerated before trial through Chief [...]
CCBF Joins City Bureau for Public Newsroom
Next week we’ll be working with City Bureau for Public Newsroom #58: Monitoring Cook County’s Central Bond Court! In the fall of 2017, the Coalition to End Money Bond [...]
CCBF Joins NLG for Webinar on Bail Funds
Earlier this month, we participated in a webinar Bail Funds & Community-Based Strategies that was hosted by the National Lawyers Guild and featured Law for Black [...]
People’s Lobby Speak Out About Sheriff Dart’s EM Policies
Terrific intervention here by a leader with The People’s Lobby, one of our partners in The Coalition to End Money Bond: “…Dart assumes that the best way to deal with violence is [...]
CCBF Testifies About Electronic Monitoring at the County Board
Today, CCBF testified at the county board meeting about the the impact of the Sheriff’s unconstitutional policy of reviewing and refusing the respect the release decisions made by bond court [...]