Rick Amato

State’s Attorney Rick Amato said much of how the pretrial aspect of the Safe-T Act is applied will be figured out at the appellate court level as prosecutors and defense lawyers alike appeal their cases.

La Corte Suprema de Justicia de Illinois decidió suspender la ley contra fianzas en efectivo, siguiendo la decisión de un juez en Kankakee, que la consideró inconstitucional.

The Illinois Supreme Court paused the end to cash bail statewide, after a Kankakee judge ruled this portion of the Safe-T Act to be unconstitutional.

La Ley Safe-T (Seguridad) afecta a distintos aspectos del sistema criminal legal, inclusive cambia cómo se tratan a los defensores antes de sus sentencias

The Safe-T Act touches upon several aspects of the criminal justice system, including changing how defendants are treated before they are sentenced.

Reforms to systemic bias in policing and the courts is a prominent campaign issue in the race for DeKalb County State’s Attorney. Republican incumbent…

The DeKalb County government employees got some insight Thursday night into how to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and Open Meetings Act. These…

Jack McCullough’s hearing for a certificate of innocence was pushed back to next year.It was supposed to be held Monday. Instead, newly-elected DeKalb…