{"id":3718,"date":"2021-01-13T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2021-01-13T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:36:30","slug":"illinois-just-passed-the-pretrial-fairness-act-and-ended-money-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/illinois-just-passed-the-pretrial-fairness-act-and-ended-money-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"VICTORY: Illinois Just Passed the Pretrial Fairness Act and Ended Money Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After years of advocacy by the\u00a0Coalition to End Money Bond<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 including Chicago Appleseed and the Chicago Council of Lawyers \u2013 and thousands of other organizers across the state, the Illinois Legislature just became the first in the nation to abolish money bail by passing\u00a0HB 3653 SFA2<\/a>. Once Governor Pritzker signs the bill into law, this victory will do more than end wealth-based incarceration \u2013 it will create a fairer pretrial system overall.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HB 3653<\/a>, sponsored by Senator Elgie Sims, Senator Robert Peters, and Representative Justin Slaughter was part of a\u00a0sweeping criminal justice reform package<\/a>\u00a0presented by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus; the Pretrial Fairness Act (HB 3653 SFA2) is a piece of that legislation. Among the many provisions in the\u00a0764 page bill<\/a>, in addition to abolishing cash bond, the law will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Create a Statewide System of Pretrial Data Collection:<\/strong>\u00a0The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts will convene a Pretrial Practices Data Oversight Board to \u201coversee the collection and analysis of data regarding pretrial practices in circuit court systems.\u201d<\/li>
  2. Establish a Domestic Violence Pretrial Practices Working Group:<\/strong>\u00a0The group will ensure that\u00a0people most impacted<\/a>\u00a0by interpersonal violence will help\u00a0guide implementation<\/a>, and will include \u201cDomestic Violence victims\u2019 advocates, formerly incarcerated victims of violence, legal practitioners, and other entities that possess knowledge of evidence-based practices surrounding domestic violence and current pretrial practices in Illinois.\u201d<\/li>
  3. Allow for Citations in lieu of Arrests:\u00a0<\/strong>Law enforcement officials will now have the ability to issue citations in lieu of arrest for people accused of \u201ctraffic and Class B and C criminal misdemeanor offenses, or of petty and business offenses, who pose no obvious threat to the community or any person, or who have no obvious medical or mental health issues that pose a risk to their own safety.\u201d<\/li>
  4. Gives People Arrested Access to a Phone within Three Hours of Arrest \u2013 No Exceptions:\u00a0<\/strong>Anyone arrested in Illinois now has a right to access and use a telephone (via land line or cell) to make three phone calls within three hours of arrest, no matter what, with the only exception being when someone is unconscious or otherwise incapacitated. People will also have the right to retrieve phone numbers from their cellphone, prior to the phone being confiscated by police. If the jurisdiction has a court-appointed public defender or other attorney available to represent arrested people, the police are mandated also to provide that information.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    This piece of legislation is monumental in terms of reforming the Illinois criminal justice system, improving various aspects of our pretrial process, and ending money bail \u2013 and includes numerous other exciting provisions not all possibly listed here. Check back with us in the next few weeks as we wait for the Governor to sign the bill and for implementation to begin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    It is presumed that a defendant is entitled to release on personal recognizance on the condition that the defendant attend all required court proceedings and the defendant does not commit any criminal offense, and complies with all terms of pretrial release\u2026<\/strong><\/p>

    Detention only shall be imposed when it is determined that the defendant poses a specific, real and present threat to a person, or has a high likelihood of willful flight.<\/strong><\/p>ILLINOIS HOUSE BILL 3653, SECTION 110-2: PARTS (A) THROUGH (C)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After years of advocacy by the\u00a0Coalition to End Money Bond\u00a0\u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration-for-justice","tag-pretrial-fairness"],"yoast_head":"\nVICTORY: Illinois Just Passed the Pretrial Fairness Act and Ended Money Bail - Chicago Council of Lawyers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/illinois-just-passed-the-pretrial-fairness-act-and-ended-money-bail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VICTORY: Illinois Just Passed the Pretrial Fairness Act and Ended Money Bail - 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