A state lawmaker who also serves as a police officer says it’s time to repeal Illinois’s SAFE-T Act. State Rep.

After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested a criminal suspect who had been released in Lake County, ...

Jose Mendoza-Gonzalez faces several charges for allegedly hiding Megan Bos' body, but none of those charges rose to the level ...

The mayor of Antioch is calling on lawmakers to revisit and revise the SAFE-T Act after the release of a suspect in a ...

KANKAKEE, Ill. (WLS) -- A win for dozens of prosecutors throughout Illinois. Cash bail could stay in place for now in at least 64 counties after part of the SAFE-T Act was ruled unconstitutional.

The SAFE-T Act requires cameras be turned on at all times when the officer is in uniform and responding to calls for any law enforcement-related encounter.

The “SAFE-T Act,” passed by the Illinois General Assembly in 2021, will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2023. Will all defendants currently in jail be freed on Jan. 1?

The other provisions of the SAFE-T Act -- including a requirement that police wear body cameras, a ban on all police chokeholds -- were upheld, a press release from Kankakee County State's ...

The SAFE-T Act should be amended to make it easier to detain anyone who attacks or intimidates victims, witnesses or first responders. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 75°F.

(WAND) — On Wednesday night, Kankakee County State's Attorney Jim Rowe released a statement announcing that Circuit Judge Thomas Cunningham ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the case regarding ...