Chief Judge Charles Beach’s office was asked whether evaluating or improving the SAFE-T Act is part of the assignment given to the electronic monitoring panel and whether the chief judge was preparing a separate report with recommendations for changes to the law. “The answer to both questions,” a spokesperson for the chief judge said, “is, simply, no.”
Although I’m sure it would send Pritzker into orbit, why can’t the Republicans present the judge with their suggestions? Knowing IL, yes they would probably be dismissed out of hand, but at least the judge, if he is truly interested in badly needed reform of something that shouldn’t be in force in the first place, could have some kind of idea to go on and ask those that will eventually have things their way “ Well, what have you got? “.
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.
Although I’m sure it would send Pritzker into orbit, why can’t the Republicans present the judge with their suggestions? Knowing IL, yes they would probably be dismissed out of hand, but at least the judge, if he is truly interested in badly needed reform of something that shouldn’t be in force in the first place, could have some kind of idea to go on and ask those that will eventually have things their way “ Well, what have you got? “.