Public Act Text for the Illinois General Assembly

The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections. [1][2] The Act's section on pretrial detention, which took effect ...

2022年11月18日 · The SAFE-T Act sets up three categories of offenses to determine whether a suspect may go free until trial, with prosecutors responsible for proving a specific danger or flight risk.

2022年12月16日 · The SAFE-T Act included a requirement for law enforcement to issue a citation in lieu of custodial arrest for traffic offenses, Class B and C misdemeanor offenses, or petty and business offenses in which the person poses no obvious threat to the community or another person and has no medical or mental health issues that pose a risk to their own ...

2022年9月16日 · Some on social media have dubbed the Safe-T act a so-called “purge law,” likening it to the horror film “The Purge,” in which criminal activity of all kinds is allowed for 12 hours. Olayemi...

2022年9月13日 · CLAIM: The SAFE-T Act ends cash bail. FACT: Yes, the act does abolish the money bail system beginning Jan. 1, 2023. According to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the cash bail system...

2023年9月22日 · On July 18, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court released a ruling that upheld the pretrial release provisions of the SAFE-T Act as constitutional, making Illinois the first state in the nation to entirely eliminate cash bail. These pretrial provisions, known as the Pretrial Fairness Act, took effect this week.

2023年3月13日 · The future of cash bail in Illinois is in the hands of the state’s Supreme Court. Illinois passed a law tha t eliminated the use of cash bail starting on January 1, 2023 as part of the SAFE-T Act. Under the law judges could no longer require people to pay money in order to leave jail while they await trial.

Pre-trail Fairness Act Transition to New System: The Pretrial Fairness Act was amended to lay out how the transition will be handled come Jan. 1, 2023. Those charged on or after January 1 will use the new system, while those charged prior to that will stay on the current one.

Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the SAFE-T Act in February 2021. The new law introduced several reforms to improve policing standards, criminal justice procedures, and pretrial detention practices across the state. The law hopes to address issues of …