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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Home monitoring of violent defendants in Cook County Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 16:10:01 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <vt664p$u07n$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:10:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7f70e4c825745cb046f6da4544ff7d4d"; logging-data="983287"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX191sgRyrmfE2FMazkS53HIJvJLZTTaIE4Q=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:dsr5u1IDLwXo5XpOln1gRfbbOkE= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Long before the pandemic, the sheriff of Cook County was livid that he was routinely ordered by judges to put defendants accused of violent crimes on home monitoring during pre-trial detention, in lieu of being held in jail. This was long part of Cook County's efforts to reduce the cost of operating the jail. The jail and court system are, by far, the county's largest expense. The president of Cook County, Toni Preckwinkle, was supported in this by chief judge Tim Evans. Way back when, Tim Evans was an alderman and floor leader for Mayor Harold Washington. This was Evans' instructions to judges setting bond. After more than a decade, the sheriff forced the issue during 2024. Evans was forced to take over home monitoring in pre-trial detention, assigning the task to adult probation (also part of his office), which has its own home monitoring program using the same technology. Evans didn't add any staff yet, but needs 150 new hires. The sheriff will continue to monitor the 1500 defendants in pre-trial home confinement but anticipate that their cases will all be resolved by September. https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/03/31/chief-judge-electronic-monitoring-cook-county-questions-staffing State's attorney Eileen Burke, now in office a little more than four months, has no confidence that the chief judge can operate the program effectively, as he has no law enforcement personnel nor investigators to apprehend escapees and must obtain police assistance. She says her office prepared 57 escape charges since she took office in December. Therefore, she ordered her assistant state's attorney to object each and every time a judge puts a defendant with violent felony charges into pre trial home confinement. Under Illinois's no-bail bond law (in which cash bail was abolished), there is an additional burden on prosecutors to present evidence of the defendant's arrest and conviction record at the bond hearing to argue that the defendant doesn't qualify for bond and should be held in jail. https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/04/07/cook-county-states-attorney-electronic-monitoring Kim Foxx never challenged orders of home monitoring. Burke got a Trib editorial. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/editorial-eileen-oneill-burke-electronic-monitoring/