Posted on 05/15/2026 7:24:18 AM PDT by Twotone
Roughly 8% of the more than 3,000 people enrolled in the often-criticized electronic monitoring system in Cook County are missing, according to the chief judge.
In other words: 243 people are missing.
“Transparency is not optional — it is a core obligation of this office,” Chief Judge Charles Beach II said in a statement. “The public has a right to know how this program operates, what the data shows and what we are doing every day to make it stronger."
Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, a frequent critic of electronic monitoring, issued a statement Wednesday saying she welcomes the chief judge’s transparency but called the data "alarming."
Burke also said the data "clearly demonstrates how current safeguards are falling short, particularly when [electronic monitoring] is available to those charged with the most threatening and heinous crimes.”
“We should all be deeply concerned that hundreds of defendants placed on EM are unaccounted for.” she said. “This creates the potential for more violence, more victims, more fear and heartache in our community. “
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
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Everything else is screwed up in Cook County. Why should the electronic monitoring program be any different?
I wonder how much the criminals have to pay to get “lost” from the system.
LOL - its permanent, long-term, one-party Democrat-machine government in chocolate Chicago!
What do people expect? Competence?!
check they payroll, I bet 1/3 of the employees in that department don’t even show up to work on a regular basis.
Name them.
There’s an extra 243 criminals that will be voting in November.
the same people who think they won’t cut off an ankle monitor and disappear are the same people who expect this scum to show up in court when they’re released with an order to appear.
They're the same people who let illegals walk away, expecting them to show up for their immigration hearings.
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