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A state lawmaker who also serves as a police officer says it’s time to repeal Illinois’s SAFE-T Act. State Rep.
After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested a criminal suspect who had been released in Lake County, ...
The mayor of Antioch is calling on lawmakers to revisit and revise the SAFE-T Act after the release of a suspect in a ...
Jose Mendoza-Gonzalez faces several charges for allegedly hiding Megan Bos' body, but none of those charges rose to the level ...
The SAFE-T Act requires cameras be turned on at all times when the officer is in uniform and responding to calls for any law enforcement-related encounter.
KANKAKEE, Ill. (WLS) -- A win for dozens of prosecutors throughout Illinois. Cash bail could stay in place for now in at least 64 counties after part of the SAFE-T Act was ruled unconstitutional.
The “SAFE-T Act,” passed by the Illinois General Assembly in 2021, will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2023. Will all defendants currently in jail be freed on Jan. 1?
MOLINE, Ill. — Law enforcement officials on the Illinois side of the Quad Cities are expressing their opinions about the Illinois Supreme Court's ruling on the SAFE-T Act Tuesday morning. The ...
With its ruling last week, the Illinois Supreme Court reaffirmed the SAFE-T Act as the law of the land. Proponents of the SAFE-T Act see it as an end to discrimination in a system that favors the w… ...
SAFE-T Act supporters have pointed out that, under the current system, people are often let out of jail on their own recognizance, without posting bond.