SPRINGFIELD – Governor JB Pritzker signed the SAFE-T Act into law in February 2021. Since then, three trailer bills have been added to the law, yet criminals are still not held accountable for crimes they commit due to the elimination of cash bail.
State Representative Mike Coffey of Springfield, who represents the House 95th District, said that as he travels around his district talking with his constituents about their needs and interests, the one thing that comes up time and time again is the SAFE-T Act, legislation that eliminated cash bail in the state of Illinois, has made communities less safe and needs to be repealed to improve public safety.
Coffey said the discussions have centered on the fact that felonies need to be detainable, all felonies, and then we need to give more judicial discretion so that we can make our communities much, much safer.
That is why Coffey, along with State Representative Wayne Rosenthal (R-Morrisonville) are sponsoring House Bill 4275, to amend the Safety Act to make it much safer for citizens in the 95th District and across the state of Illinois.