An Illinois appellate court has slammed Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s electronic monitoring program for its “ambiguity” on whether apartment-dwelling detainees are allowed in other parts of their ...

Just over a month after Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring program, changes are being made in an effort to more quickly track down ...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office is tightening its electronic monitoring rules to clarify that apartment dwellers in the program cannot do things like get mail from their building’s vestibule or ...

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