UPDATED: Sheriffs say new policy ‘aids and abets’ undocumented immigrants released after felony convictions
UPDATED: Sheriffs say new policy ‘aids and abets’ undocumented immigrants released after felony convictions
Sheriffs and Republican state lawmakers are calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to scrap a new policy that they say prohibits communication between state, federal and local law enforcement agencies when an undocumented immigrant is released from a state prison after serving a felony sentence.
Education funding returns to the forefront
Education funding is once again top of mind at the Capitol, with a key cog of Gov. JB Pritzker’s fiscal year 2021 budget proposal addressing the matter already facing pushback.
At issue is the state’s three-year-old K-12 education funding system, known as the evidence-based model. For the fourth straight budget year, lawmakers are discussing how many hundreds of millions...