In Illinois at present, most people charged with certain crimes – and who are considered to be a flight risk or a danger to the community – may post a bond or put up cash or collateral to guarantee they will show up for trial. 28 of last year, a circuit court judge sided with the challengers, and State Attorney General Kwame Raoul immediately appealed the matter directly to the State Supreme Court.Ī Constitutional violation or a system correction? Supporters of the measure say that it corrects a long-standing inequity. Opponents of the no-cash-bail section have challenged that section – as well as the entire act – saying it violates the State Constitution. Most of these are outside of the Chicago metropolitan area Cook County officials are standing by the no-cash-bail provision of the SAFE-T Act. In the waning days of 2022, law enforcement representatives from more than half the counties in Illinois challenged the constitutionality of the no-cash-bail provision.
Arguments are set to begin before the state supreme court on the ending of cash bail in Illinois. The Evanston Police Department is watching and awaiting the Supreme Court ruling. Support in court for the no-cash-bail provision seems almost geographically split, with the officials of many downstate counties opposing it and Cook County and those in other northern/suburban counties supporting it or remaining neutral.Įvanston advocates of eliminating cash bail say it would make the system fairer, because pretrial detention will be determined by the seriousness of the crime and danger to the community rather than by the availability of economic resources. The law, which addresses 265 separate statutes, was amended in December 2022. Among these would be the elimination of cash bail for many types of crimes, a measure that was set to go into effect on Jan. 22, 2021, the Illinois Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act phased in substantial reforms of the state’s criminal justice system. Signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker on Jan. The Illinois Supreme Court will hear on March 14 arguments challenging and defending a 764-page state law and one controversial section of it called the no-cash-bail provision.
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