The Pretrial Success Act, a bill filed this legislative session, would direct $15 million to community organizations around the state to provide voluntary services to people awaiting trial, from clinical behavioral and health services to transportation, child care, and case management in order to improve their odds of success.
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.