Judicial Accountability Project

03/22/2021

Judges matter.

01/27/2021

You can keep our judicial system accountable!

11/23/2020

“More than 20 residents of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center have tested positive in the past month, a dramatic increase over the numbers reported at the end of spring and early summer. The staff numbers are alarming as well, with more than 70 people who work at the near West Side facility now reported to have tested positive during the entire pandemic.”

The renewed nationwide surge of COVID-19 has hit Cook County lockups with force this fall, causing officials to reevaluate the safeguards put in place earlier this year to blunt the spread of the deadly infection behind bars.

11/10/2020

We’ve shifted the paradigm & we’re not done! This time judges couldn't ride Dem coattails regardless of biases, record or beliefs. Every judge was forced to campaign on their own merits. Get on our email list! japacil.com/subscribe

11/03/2020

‪The polls are open and you still have time register (yes you can register TODAY!!!) and vote! Vote NO on Toomin and stop his long history of bias against Cook County’s Black and Brown children. Punch #206! ‬

11/02/2020

There are only 2 days left to vote NO on Toomin! Our judicial system will not change with Toomin on the bench. Punch #206!

Vote NO on Toomin TODAY! Why? Because when you hear the term school to prison pipeline, understand that Toomin is the primary driver of mass incarceration and racial inequality in the 1990s and 2000s. tosstoomin

10/30/2020

For Cook County’s kids to have the future they deserve, Michael Toomin has to go!

10/29/2020

Volunteers we need you! Help us make sure everybody knows to TOSS TOOMIN! Toomin fought to lock up Black & Brown CHILDREN as young as 10 yo. Cook County’s children deserve more! Fill out the form to safely volunteer here!

We are 2 weeks from Election Day and we need your help to Toss Toomin! Please use this form to indicate your availability to volunteer at an Early Vote location. A staff person from JAPAC will follow up.

10/29/2020

‪We can’t let Michael Toomin continue to throw our kids and their futures away simply because he wants to maintain power. He actively blocked alternatives to detention and argued to lock up kids as young as 10 yo! Toomin’s Reagan Republican, archaic approach must be stopped! Vote NO on Toomin! ‬

10/27/2020

‪Watch this video about the justice system giving a life sentence to a then 15-year-old Marshan Allen. We need reforms now! Vote No on Judge Toomin and start the process of creating the system we deserve. https://youtu.be/HlbnFDRsTj4‬

My name is Marshan Allen, this is my story.