With Cook County facing a lawsuit challenging its bail system, local community groups and attorneys gathered Tuesday to "demand alternatives to monetary bond" to help poor detainees.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is calling for a change in Illinois law so that his office can ask for bond reductions for poor, nonviolent jail detainees.
The Cook County Board is expected to sign off on a $2.4 million settlement next week stemming from a 2008 federal lawsuit filed by a group of deputies that accused Sheriff Tom Dart of political retaliation.
