Throughout the fight to end money bond and reduce pretrial jailing in Illinois, opponents weaponized survivors of gender based violence and used misinformation to try to and stop the Pretrial Fairness Act. These attacks ignored the ways in which wealth-based jailing has failed to keep survivors safe and erased the central role that survivors and anti-gender based violence advocates played in drafting and passing the Pretrial Fairness Act. The law makes strides towards granting survivors more opportunities to be a part of the pretrial process. 

Join survivor and policy advocates as we unpack how this historic reform supports survivors and discuss the law's implementation impacts victim services. 

Panelists: 

• Senator Laura Ellman, State Senator for the 21st district

• Madeleine Behr, Director of Policy and Systems Advocacy at The Network: Advocating Against Violence

• Loren Gutierrez, Deputy Director with the Legal Aid Society of Metro Family Services

• Moderator: Emma Gonzalez, Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice

This event is sponsored by IL-NOW, the League of Women Voters of Illinois, The Network: Advocating Against Violence,  Legal Aid Society of Metro Family Services, National Council of Jewish Women, and Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice