Despite Democrats’ changes to the SAFE-T Act, Illinois’ sprawling criminal justice reform law, a Kankakee County judge could soon take the next steps in deciding the law’s fate. Kankakee County Chief Judge Thomas Cunnington is scheduled to hold a hearing and potentially issue a decision on constitutional challenges brought against the SAFE-T Act by a group of more than 60 Illinois county prosecutors.
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.