Electronic Monitoring Under Scrutiny
Cook County Chief Judge Charles S. Beach II yesterday issued his first public announcement since taking office Monday, unveiling a new committee that he said will urgently review how his office’s electronic monitoring program handles reported violations by people wearing ankle monitors.
The move comes as scrutiny intensifies over the system’s failure to respond to multiple alerts it received in the days before 50-year-old Lawrence Reed set a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train in the Loop last month.
Beach’s statement offered a cautious but pointed acknowledgment that the court’s monitoring program needs clearer coordination and faster information sharing. Without referring to the Reed case specifically, Beach’s statement said recent events highlighted the need for well-defined roles among the agencies involved in pretrial supervision. Beach promised a transparent, evidence-based review that would result in concrete, actionable recommendations by late January.
We say "interesting" because this story also dropped yesterday:
A year after Lacramioara Beldie was killed by her estranged husband, who’d been ordered to stay away, her family has sued Cook County and the company that operated his tracking device.
In the months leading up to her death, Beldie received more than 20 calls and over 90 messages, alerting her that Constantin Beldie had violated his GPS monitoring, according to the lawsuit filed last month.
But the court allegedly did nothing about these violations and, according to the suit, “intentionally disregarded the impending danger of Constantin Beldie and failed to act to prevent the attack and death of Lacramioara Beldie.”
On Nov. 19, 2024, the tracking company did not issue any alert when Lacramioara Beldie’s husband showed up outside a Portage Park home and proceeded to stab her to death, according to the lawsuit. Constantin Beldie, 57, killed himself after the attack and was found inside a car a block away hours later.
This could be a real test of an effort to hold the failed EM policy to account seeing as how there were tens of dozens of provable violations of the monitoring....and exactly zero penalties against the future murderer.
We'll see.
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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Tom Dart leads the pack of failures in the electronic monitoring program.
Any person or family of a person suffering a crime from someone on EM should be doing this. I'm not sure if this is the only lawsuit thus far but it shouldn't be.
Nope.
Merely the usual dog and pony show for the guillible.
Until MAGA policies are directed upon this den of miscreant multitudes, disregarding politics and Constitutionally rock solid, said den will continue to do what they do, yet not with the impunity prior to MAGA, only the pompous ass posturings pretending to be impunity.
Their only leverage is, and has been, political. The deceivings of the masses, by the exploiters of said masses, those denizens of the swamp, which is political only. No potency without exploiting the masses politically.
off topic A5 PRT mechanic LT must have been threatened with getting dumb , they were in 016 taking jobs on first watch 0300 still . Good they were getting to big for there heads .
How about stopping this nonsense put them in the prison population so many sections of the jail are wide wide open. Put them in there then you will know where they are all the time they did the crime. Let them do the time stop letting them pray on the innocent people. As our taxes have already skyrocketed, we all know that and downtown is 40 to 60% vacant they have made the taxes for the homeowners to pay. They’ve taken the burden away from the business community or what was left of the business community.
Do you realize that five restaurants have closed in the last two weeks downtown Logan Square niche restaurants that were active to the mostly liberal population. They’re even closing in their place is down because of the crime in the taxes absolute failure of the governor absolute failure of the mayor delusional idiots.
Despite the utter lack of oversight of the criminal while on a monitor, what's always galled me was wearing a monitor gave credit each day as "good time"
when it came time for sentencing. Drag the case through court long enough, then take a plea, get all that good time, go downstate for a day, then paroled out the side door the next.
Nobody cared.
It’s all fake. How often does the IDOC not enforce their warrants when somebody is taken into custody? Nothing will change.
I'm just wondering when the shot-spotter lawsuits will start.
The gubbenor reminded us, just the other day (after the most recent flaming CTA passenger incident), everyone knows that most new laws, such as SAFE-T, always needs a little "tweaking." If there wasn't twerking in creating the laws, there'd be no need for tweaking the laws.
Another detail that gets overlooked is that when the AH finally gets sentenced, his term is reduced by the amount of time on EM, considered time already served. What a bunch of BS!
A new start up EM company owned by a politically connected relative will rise from the ashes and be awarded a multi multi millions dollar contract to do the EM stuff. Things will be much better……now that’s funny
well, let's see,,,, the city keeps on paying out millions after millions of dollars on the so-called burge torture cases and reynaldo cases that were never proven to have happened and here is a case where there is proof and the liberal media will mostly ignore it like they were told to do
oh no!!! another liberal restaurant closing.... woe is me
You 004 district clowns who showed up to the county shooting yesterday should be ashamed of yourselves.
Thanks. We don’t care
End EM. Either hold the accused in jail or released pending trial. No more credit on the prison sentence for time on EM!
Another panel to examine insanity then find insanity is preferred.
Elaborate please.
Why would officers responding to another agency’s shooting be ashamed of themselves.
When ICE arrests someone, they are sent to a county jail outside Chicago and usually in other states, sometimes as far away as Ohio. The Fed pays the bills to those county jails and transport costs as there isn’t enough space in the fed’s Chicago Met Center. This costs millions. Why aren’t Toni and the county brain trust making space available in the Cook County Jail to create some jobs, earn some money and help address the county’s budget deficit.
The current states attorney said in an interview the courts have taken it over and they don’t have police powers plus there aren’t enough of them with the 2 day off rule where the idiots can leave the house for personal business they can commit their crimes on those 2 and have 5 days off
There is a retired Sheriff in a collar county that did just that. He rented space to ICE so that they had a place to house illegal aliens. For his good faith efforts he has several law suits for millions in damages him personally filed by pro illegal alien activist groups.
I see nothing in that statement that indicates the program reforms will include the possibility that a monitoring violation will ever result in someone coming to arrest the violator. We’ll just subject him to some extra scolding at his next court date if and when he shows up.
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