The Task Force report proposes changes to the Pretrial Fairness Act appeal process that aim to balance efficiency with thorough review of pretrial release decisions. There are many more appeals since the Pretrial Fairness Act was implemented on September 18th, 2023. The number of appeals went from an average of 17 per year to a projected 4,557.
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.