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New Illinois Privacy Law Curbs Police Access to Home Devices

The Crime Report

Legislators in Illinois have passed a “first-of-its-kind” bill limiting law enforcement’s access to household data from digital devices. Currently, Illinois offers some protection for things like emails. The Illinois requirements don’t map neatly onto the Stored Communications Act framework,” Goodwin told Bloomberg Law News. . “The

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Illinois Scores Top Rank in Reintegrating Ex-Incarcerees, Alaska is Lowest

The Crime Report

A companion “report card” ranking all 50 states according to how well they measure up in nine different areas of reentry and reintegration gives Illinois the highest marks and places Alaska at the bottom. Pardon Attorney, in the introduction to the report.

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Advocates say Illinois Victim Compensation Program is ‘Broken’

The Crime Report

The Illinois victim compensation program, which many states offer with their own unique terms, was designed to help survivors and victim’s families to cover necessities like medical costs, funeral costs and lost wages.

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IL State Officials Sued for Allowing Foster Children to Languish in Juvenile Detention

The Crime Report

The Cook County public guardian is suing Illinois child welfare officials for allowing foster children to remain locked up in juvenile detention even after they’ve been ordered released — a problem that has only gotten worse, an Illinois Answers Project investigation found last year. It feels like nobody cares about me.

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Watch Your Driver’s License: Cyberscammers Exploit COVID-19

The Crime Report

David Druker, a spokesperson for the Illinois secretary of state’s office, which issues driver’s licenses, called the latest scam “despicable.” In Illinois, Druker said, thousands of people have received texts and emails in which scammers pose as the secretary of state or as officials from the state department of transportation.

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Study Shows Low Safety Risk of Reducing Long Sentences

The Crime Report

The study based its estimates on an analysis of people released after serving prison sentences of 10 years or more in Illinois. The study found that reducing sentences of over 10 years by one year could reduce Illinois’s average daily prison population by 1.3 percent, which would slice prison costs dramatically.

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The Real Justice Lesson of the Pandemic

The Crime Report

The combination helped convince Illinois legislators to pass, and Gov. For the first time in Illinois, people accused of crimes will not have to sit in jail cells awaiting trial simply because they can’t come up with the cash to buy their freedom. Garien Gatewood is director of the Illinois Justice Project.

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