Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new electronic ...

Roughly 8% of the more than 3,000 people enrolled in the often-criticized electronic monitoring system in Cook County are missing, according to the chief judge. In other words: 243 people are missing.

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 ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016. The Chicago Community Bond Fund had just helped her buy her freedom, and ...

One in 12 accused criminals in Cook County's electronic monitoring program are currently AWOL, according to a new report from the county's chief judge.

Montgomery County Municipal Courts electronic monitoring by judge as of Sept. 17: Judge Carl Henderson, Dayton: 9 Judge Christopher Roberts, Dayton: 7 Judge Daniel Gehres, Dayton: 3 Judge Deirdre ...

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Judges in multiple recent cases have ordered the release of defendants on electronic monitoring, a program run by the Metropolitan Police Department, only to have police refuse to follow the decisions ...