Serious Chicago Police Discipline Hearings Must Take Place in Public, Judge Rules – WTTW (Chicago)

Judge Michael Mullen’s decision, which is subject to appeal, upholds the effort backed by the city’s largest police union to upend the system used for 60 years to punish officers. Mullen found that allowing cases that could allow officers to be fired or suspended for more than a year to take place behind closed doors goes “against a dominant and well-defined public policy.”