After controversy in Quincy, advocates question whether Illinois should require judges to undergo training on sexual assault cases – Chicago Tribune/Muddy River News

Since 2018, all Illinois police officers must undergo training to better respond to rape survivors — a mandate designed, in part, to encourage more survivors to come forward (an estimated 75% of sexual assaults nationally go unreported and in Illinois, more than 4,000 rapes were reported last year, FBI data show). Avocates question whether that training requirement should extend to the state’s roughly 1,000 judges.