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A year after the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) under Eileen O’Neill Burke directed prosecutors to stop the practice of sending low-level, nonviolent gun possession cases to Cook County’s Restorative Justice Community Courts, or RJCC, O’Neill Burke reversed the policy and resumed referring certain gun-possession cases to the RJCC.
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has instructed her office to resume sending some people with gun possession charges to the county’s Restorative Justice Community Courts (RJCC), which reroute young people with nonviolent charges from criminal courts to an alternative program. Upon completion, the charge is dismissed.
The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender distributed groceries, personal care items, and infant items in Roseland and in Austin as part of going beyond the courtroom and supporting people in their communities and meeting their needs. Our belief is simple: justice should not be sought only in court; it should happen on the block, in the neighborhood, and in everyday life.
The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender has opposed the State’s Attorney’s felony bypass policy since its inception, and we oppose any expansion.
A coalition of legal services, immigrant justice and civil rights, and domestic violence organizations is celebrating the early morning passage of statewide legislation to ban civil arrests in and around Illinois state courthouses. HB1312 extends protections recently enacted by court order in Cook County to all Illinois residents and enables civil penalties for violations of the law.
The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender applauds Chief Judge Tim Evans for his general administrative order banning civil arrests in and around courthouses in Cook County.
The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender and 13 criminal and civil legal aid and social services organizations, including nine specializing in serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence, formally petitioned the court today.
The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender proudly announces the opening of its second community-based office, the Freedom Defense Center of Austin (FDCA), located inside the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation on Chicago’s West Side.
The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender congratulates Judge Charles Beach II on his election as the new Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.