On Sept. 18 Illinois became the first state to completely move to a system where danger and flight risk, instead of money, determine if a person is detained before their
Clarence M. Darrow, Chief Judge of the 14th Circuit, told the Quad-City Times/Dispatch-Argus that local officials have been faithful to the Pretrial Fairness Act, which was part of the 2021 SAFE-T Act, approved in 2021.