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Cook County needs to stop releasing people on electronic monitoring when they pose a risk to the public, particularly in ...

After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new electronic monitoring participants, marking the beginning of a shift in one way ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Cook County Sheriff's deputies this week found a ghost gun with ammunition, and multiple type of narcotics, while conducting a surveillance check on a convicted felon. On Monday, ...

CHICAGO -- It has been four years since Cook County began placing some juveniles on electronic home monitoring, and court officials say the system has been 96 percent successful in keeping those youth ...

Earlier this month, at around 4:30 a.m., Chicago police officers noticed a car with a broken headlight and initiated a stop. The officers spotted a black bag on the floorboard, felt an L-shaped object ...

After the high-profile arrest of a dozen juveniles police said were breaking into cars there are new questions about why at least one was even there.Among the suspects caught in a downtown parking ...

Privacy International welcomes the UK House of Lord’s Justice and Home Affairs Committee’s investigation and subsequent report on electronic monitoring ...

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 ...