The legislative package of 15 bills includes the “Fund the Police Act,” giving $100 million in appropriations to local governments and universities to hire police officers, and changes to the “Community Mental Health Act,” which would give 20% to county sheriffs to be used for mental health services within county jails.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.