A Chicago group set up a community program to link up people awaiting trial with all sorts of services -- to help them not break conditions of release, & set them up for success.

Vital sort of initiative, & now there's an effort to scale it up statewide:
boltsmag.org/illinois-pretr…

Most people on pretrial release plan to meet their court dates. “But there's last minute things that happen like childcare, or issues with their rides,” says Matthew McFarland, who ran a pilot program helping Chicagoans awaiting trial avoid these issues. boltsmag.org/illinois-pretr…

it's cool to be a point where we can talk about the bolts archives :)

After ending cash bail in Illinois, reformers are calling for more support services for ppl on pretrial release. Read this moving report from Pascal on how such programs help ppl get out of the situations that led to their arrest in the first place boltsmag.org/illinois-pretr…

Tired of hitting a wall after every election cycle, some researchers and lawyers are pushing for reform in the reporting of precinct-level election data, demanding that states clean up and post complete precinct-level data in accessible formats.

More: bit.ly/3w9ge2Q

Arizona Senator J.D. Mesnard, a Republican who represents a district carried by Joe Biden in 2020, just voted against repealing the 1864 abortion ban.

He's up for reelection in November in that same district, via Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social.

Republican legislator in Arizona who participated in Trump's coup attempt as a fake elector compares repealing a near-total abortion ban to the Holocaust.

Kern recently got indicted over the 2020 election scheme. And he's currently running for Congress cbsnews.com/news/arizona-a…

JUST IN: The Arizona Senate will pass the bill to repeal the 1864 ban.

Final numbers of the roll call incoming, but the bill just got the votes it needs.

The bill already passed the House.

I'm stuck on Maine being red in the first map.

Arizona's Senate is currently debating the bill to repeal the 1864 abortion ban.

The repeal (which would leave in place the GOP's 15-week ban from a few years ago) passed the House last week.

When they say 'America is a Christian nation,' I wish they meant programs like this and not 'If I can't film anyone in the 24 Fitness locker room whom I believe to be trans, your family will be getting bomb threats for the rest of your life. '

A community program in Chicago has been supporting people on pretrial release, to improve their odds of success.

Now Illinois has ended cash bail, & there are efforts to scale up these programs statewide -- & to connect people to critical services.

NEW: boltsmag.org/illinois-pretr…

Oklahoma just adopted a law that bans the use of ranked-choice voting by local governments.

It also adopted a law that will make homeless encampments on public property a misdemeanor.
newsfromthestates.com/article/gov-ke…