The end of cash bail in Illinois won’t look the same statewide on Jan. 1, state task force says – WBBM (Chicago)

“[Cook County’s] got all sorts of materials and policies and procedures developed and have worked out all of these arrangements with all the stakeholders,” said Loyola University Professor Dave Olson, also a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Pretrial Implementation Task Force. “In smaller jurisdictions, they just don’t have the capacity.” Olson said that might make it more challenging for those jurisdictions, some of which don’t have a full-time public defender, to hold detention hearings right away.