One day after he was sworn in, new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach said he is ordering an urgent review of the county's troubled electronic monitoring program.

Days after new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring program, Sheriff Tom Dart said this crisis isn't new, and that he's been warning ...

Earlier this month, at around 4:30 a.m., Chicago police officers noticed a car with a broken headlight and initiated a stop. The officers spotted a black bag on the floorboard, felt an L-shaped object ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There are more than three thousand people charged with crimes right now wearing ankle bracelets in Cook County so authorities can keep track of them; a more than 30-percent spike in ...

After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new electronic monitoring participants, marking the beginning of a shift in one way ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COOK COUNTY, Ill. — For more than three ...

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto announced Monday that his office will resume its ankle monitoring program following a federal appeals court ruling that reinstated a key condition of the monitoring ...

Changes are coming to the Cook County court system’s troubled electronic monitoring program. State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke spoke about the program’s challenges and the system’s new chief judge ...