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Current System for Investigating Sexual Misconduct Complaints Against CPD Officers Welcomes Bias

Chicago City Council Should Authorize COPA to Investigate Complaints of Sexual Misconduct Against Chicago Police Officers A letter of recommendation from the Civil Liberties & Police Accountability Committee of the Chicago Council of Lawyers and Chicago Appleseed, written by Co...

Malcolm Rich: Central Panels promote Fairness, Effectiveness, and Efficiency in Administrative Adjudication

The Hidden Judiciary: How Central Panels Improve Fairness, Effectiveness, and Efficiency in Administrative Adjudication By Malcolm Rich, Executive Director of the Collaboration for Justice of Chicago Appleseed & Chicago Council of Lawyers As states expand the range of issues and disputes e...

License to Work Act Passes

License to Work Act: SB 1786, the License to Work Act, passed in the Illinois legislature veto session on Tuesday, October 29. Chicago Council of Lawyers and Chicago Appleseed are proud to have worked as members of the Transit Table Coalition on this important legislation to end the practice of s...

After years of advocacy, the recording systems in Chicago’s eviction courtrooms are officially operational as of October 25, 2019

Chicago Reader columnist Maya Dukmasova published an article on Wednesday, October 30, exposing the fact that, “for the first time in 16 years, Chicago eviction court is on tape.” Chicago Appleseed & Chicago Council of Lawyers established a coalition that has continuously advocated the c...

Collaboration for Justice Fellowship Announcement

The Chicago Council of Lawyers was created in 1969 - fifty years ago - to give a voice to lawyers demanding fairness and effectiveness in the justice system. When the Council was founded, there was a lack of basic trust in our government and corporate sectors across the country; fundamentally unfair...

Merit-Based Judicial Retention in Illinois: A Viable Way to Improve the Quality of the State’s Judiciary

In 2014, Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) proposed to amend the Illinois constitution as a means to improve the way Illinois retains its judges. Her bill (HJRCA0010) suggested a judicial performance commission for the evaluation of judicial retention candidates. As explained in a ...

ABA Resolution 100A: A Victory in the Fight for Procedural Justice, Fairness, and the Independence of Administrative Law Judges (ALJs)

A Victory in the Fight for Procedural Justice, Fairness, and the Independence of Administrative Law Judges (ALJs): ABA Resolution 100A, August 12, 2019 In February of 2019, we released a report entitled The Need for a Central Panel Approach to Administrative Adjudication: Pros, Cons, and Se...

CPD’s “Gun Offender Dashboard” contains Disturbing Inaccuracies that are Misleading the Public about the Causes of Violent Crime

Chicago Police Department’s “Gun Offender Dashboard” contains Disturbing Inaccuracies that are Misleading the Public about the Causes of Violent Crime By Sarah Staudt, Senior Policy Analyst and Staff Attorney on behalf of the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee (CJAC) On Monday, Police Chie...

“Suum Cuique or why You, Lawyer, Should Not be Silent,” an Essay on Justice by David I. Schrodt

Our electronic world is frequently disorienting. Indeed, it can sometimes be worse than disorienting. We can be in our safest place and receive words written or spoken by those with power that express or strongly infer that not all law-abiding Citizens are fully protected by our system o...

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