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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 ...

CHICAGO -- It has been four years since Cook County began placing some juveniles on electronic home monitoring, and court officials say the system has been 96 percent successful in keeping those youth ...

Aisha Devaughn was jailed again for bond violation after failing to stay within Ohio as required by her electronic monitoring ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Cook County Sheriff's deputies this week found a ghost gun with ammunition, and multiple type of narcotics, while conducting a surveillance check on a convicted felon. On Monday, ...

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 ...

After the high-profile arrest of a dozen juveniles police said were breaking into cars there are new questions about why at least one was even there.Among the suspects caught in a downtown parking ...

When we learned that the man who allegedly set 26-year-old Bethany MaGee on fire on a Blue Line train last month not only had been arrested more than 70 times but was also out on electronic monitoring ...

Greensboro, NC - A man charged with murder was on out on bail when police say he committed another crime. Bobbie Frederick Walls, Jr. was charged with first-degree murder last October in connection to ...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office is tightening its electronic monitoring rules to clarify that apartment dwellers in the program cannot do things like get mail from their building’s vestibule or ...