Committee on Public Safety: 20-year Analysis
A 20-year analysis of agenda items from Chicago’s Committee on Public Safety reveals a lack of oversight and regulation of police.
FOIA: Public Safety Committee
CJP submitted this request to the Public Safety Committee of the Chicago City Council in a ridiculous continuation of our efforts to figure out who was on this committee from 2000-2020. For months now CJP is been trying very hard to track what alderman served at any point on the Police and Fire Committee which […]
FOIA: Second Attempt at Committee Membership & Terms
This is CJP’s second attempt at requesting data regarding the membership and chairman for the City Council Committees of Police and Fire, Public Safety, and Finance. Believe it or not the City Clerk’s Office is trying to tell us they don’t maintain documents that detail the terms that alderman serve on committees and the […]
FOIA: Committee Membership & Terms
This request is for data on the terms and membership on the Chicago City Council Committees that are related to police oversight and approval of civil settlements involving the Chicago Police Department and their officers. The terms and membership data will be used as part of our efforts to track the activities of these committees […]
FOIA: Chicago City Clerk
The Chicago Justice Project has two volunteer driven research projects that involve tracking the activities of different committees of the Chicago City Council through accessing Clerk data. This FOIA request was submitted because if you check the website for the Clerk you are only able to obtain agendas from committee meetings going back to […]
Top 10 Questions for Interim Superintendent David Brown
We are submitting our 10 Top questions for the hearing on Monday April 20th the Chicago City Council Public Safety Committee will be holding a hearing to confirm now interim Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown to the position permanently. This meeting, like many other of these types of hearings, is basically pure theater. […]