Across the 95 counties that provided 2021 data, circuit courts clerks collected a total of $6.8 million in bond processing fees in 2021. Bond processing fees represented 8% of total bonds applied ($83.1 million). These bond processing fees will be eliminated with the abolition of cash bail beginning in January 2023.
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.