Comment: Salute to the Tribune on this. Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans for nearly two decades has had a policy of restricting the public’s access to digital criminal court records. Last month, after the Tribune filed a legal challenge, Evans announced he was reversing his policy and will release complete records to the newspaper in the coming weeks and months.
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.