Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart
Recent News About Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart
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Chief judge, sheriff owe no duty to protect the public from criminals on electronic monitoring: Court filings
Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable for the carjacking murder of Vietnam vet Keith Cooper in 2021, allegedly committed by two men who were on electronic home monitoring -
Appeals panel: Sheriff Dart's layoffs after 2017 soda tax repeal didn't break labor law
Appeals panel says no evidence county failed to engage in good faith negotiations -
Class action: Cook Co. Sheriff office said couldn't deliver court summons because of COVID-19, yet kept service fees
A new class action said plaintiffs paid Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's office hundreds of dollars in fees to serve summons for lawsuits, yet those summons were never delivered, and the fees weren't refunded. -
Appeals panel restores lawsuit accusing Dart of improperly overturning pretrial release of some Black detainees
7th Circuit: Judge, not sheriff, has the right to force continued detention -
Cook County COVID court activity restrictions extended until mid-May; most remaining activities to be held remotely
Cook County’s chief judge has extended the COVID-induced shutdown of nearly all county court proceedings until mid-May, at the earliest, and this time will close some courthouses, while also requiring virtually all remaning activity to be conducted by videoconference. -
Cook Sheriff asks judge for new try to punish Backpage's lawyers, says helped Backpage lie about sex trafficking
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has asked a federal judge to reconsider his decision to not order sanctions against the lawyers who represented Backpage.com in litigation against the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, saying new testimony from Backpage’s indicted CEO showed lawyers from the firm of Davis Wright Tremaine knew more than they said about the online classified site’s success at using cryptocurrency and other alternative routes to evade the sheriff’s try to shut Backpage down over sex trafficking. -
Sheriff Dart says he, not state's attorney, calls employees before disciplinary board, asks suit be tossed
Cook County's sheriff, who is facing a suit by a suspended county jail deputy, wants the suit dismissed on grounds it would be "illogical" for the state's attorney to take disciplinary action against a sheriff's employee. -
Federal judge keeps wrongful termination case against Cook County Sheriff alive
A federal judge has allowed a former Cook County correctional officer to continue his suit accusing Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart of firing him in retaliation for supporting a political opponent of the sheriff. The judge, however, dismissed a number of other defendants within the sheriff's office from the case. -
Cook Sheriff asks court to order Yahoo to reveal ID of sender of emails accusing him of domestic abuse
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants a court to force Yahoo to reveal the identity of someone he says sent emails falsely accusing him of domestic abuse. -
Classifieds site Backpage alleges Cook County Sheriff 'lied' to hide documents in sex trafficking injunction case
Online classifieds site Backpage.com is alleging in federal court that Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, in his effort to shut down the site on grounds it facilitates sex trafficking, wrongly withheld thousands of discovery documents from Backpage, fraudulently claiming the documents were confidential, because they were the product of an attorney-client relationship. -
AFSCME: Cook Sheriff's Merit Board members terms' illegal; disciplinary decisions invalid since '05
A powerful public workers’ labor union has sued the Cook County Sheriff, saying members of the Cook County Sheriff’s Merit Board – whom the sheriff essentially appoints - aren’t spending enough time in office, potentially undermining all disciplinary cases the board has handled against deputies and correctional officers represented by the union since 2005. -
Female Cook public defenders sue their boss, sheriff's office for letting inmates sexually harass them
Saying the Cook County detainees they represent are sexually harassing them, a group of female public defenders have lodged a federal class action complaint against the office that employs them, as well as the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, for allowing it to happen repeatedly.