How General Order 18.8A Works
On September 18th last year, General Order 18.8A went into effect in Cook County. The order states that no one should be held in Cook County Jail because they are unable to pay a money bond. Bond [...]
CCBF Pays Bond to Free Roderick
Last month, Sheriff Dart announced that he would be unconstitutionally detaining people who have been ordered released so he could conduct additional arbitrary reviews of their current charges [...]
UPLC & MacArthur Justice Center Condemn Sheriff’s EM Policy
Our friends at Uptown People’s Law Center and The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center are speaking truth to power in this new op-ed on Dart’s illegal policy of detaining [...]
Part 3 of South Side Weekly’s Deep Dive Into Bail Reform
Part three of South Side Weekly’s in-depth look at the movement to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County. This article focuses on the work of the Coalition to End Money Bond, of which CCBF is a [...]
Part Two of South Side Weekly’s In-Depth Look at Money Bail
New article from South Side Weekly takes an in-depth look at CCBF’s origin story and the Coalition to End Money Bond. This week the Coalition to End Money Bond released “Monitoring [...]
EM Lawsuit Featured in Sun Times
“Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is running into a backlash from the Cook County public defender and other legal advocates of people who are remaining in jail as his office scrutinizes if they [...]
Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Sheriff Tom Dart’s Unlawful Detention of People Ordered Released Pretrial by Cook County Judges
Attorneys for people held in Cook County Jail even after their bonds were paid are challenging the Sheriff’s policy in federal court and also seeking to hold Dart in contempt in state court for [...]
Coalition to End Money Bond Releases Report on General Order 18.8a
Last fall, CCBF and our partners in the Coalition to End Money Bond organized more than 70 volunteers to monitor the implementation of General Order 18.8A in Cook County’s central bond court. The [...]
James Kilgore Calls for an End to Electronic Monitoring for People Out on Bail
Read this important Letter to the Editor about Sheriff Dart’s unfounded fearmongering about public safety, electronic monitoring, & the fight to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County by scholar, [...]
Sheriff Dart Pushes Back on Bail Reform
Today, Sheriff Tom Dart attempted to raise alarm bells about the successes of bail reform in Cook County. Both major Chicago newspapers quote Dart and his office regarding the increased number of [...]