Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new electronic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cook County chief judge’s office has toughened protocols around its electronic monitoring program, making changes in the wake ...

The Cook County sheriff’s office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge amid questions about who will arrest violators and how extra staff will be ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016. The Chicago Community Bond Fund had just helped her buy her freedom, and ...

When we learned that the man who allegedly set 26-year-old Bethany MaGee on fire on a Blue Line train last month not only had been arrested more than 70 times but was also out on electronic monitoring ...

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Judges in multiple recent cases have ordered the release of defendants on electronic monitoring, a program run by the Metropolitan Police Department, only to have police refuse to follow the decisions ...

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