“Amendment 1 could allow government union contracts, and that includes police contracts, to override state laws and that includes portions of the SAFE-T Act,” said Illinois Policy Institute staff attorney Mailee Smith. “Those police unions would have the ability to demand that there are basically contrary provisions in their collective bargaining agreement that would override state law like the SAFE-T Act."
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.