Chicago Aldermen Set To Talk about Anjanette Younger Ordinance, Calling For Guidelines Defending Folks’s Civil Rights Throughout Police Raids – CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago city councils will be debating a proposed city ordinance on Tuesday to ensure what happened to Anjanette Young doesn’t happen to you.

A hearing on Tuesday will set out the details of the proposed new rules that would protect people’s civil rights in future police raids.

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The bogus raid on Young’s house two years ago was first exposed by CBS 2 investigator Dave Savini. Naked and terrified, Young was handcuffed and handcuffed by officers in a botched raid on the wrong home.

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The Anjanette Young regulation is far-reaching. It requires that all raids include a knock, an announcement and no less than 30 seconds of waiting to break a door open.

It also calls for the search warrants to be limited between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. And any informants who give bad tips may not be reused.

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The ordinance also requires body cameras to be rolled throughout the raid and police to limit raids to when children and vulnerable people are absent – and special plans if they are.

But just days after the sponsors of the Anjanette Young Ordinance presented their plan, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Supt introduced. David Brown presented his own plan to revise the CPD’s search warrant guidelines.

The Anjanette Young Ordinance sponsors said these changes include some of the same reforms they proposed, but they believe the government’s plan doesn’t go far enough – in particular, they argue that the changes are being made by city legislation and not just should be made by the CPD policy.

“Your decision to share this video; CBS 2 and the work you have done to highlight multiple experiences with it – it’s detrimental to our city, our democracy and people’s attitudes towards the government and the police, “Ald said. Maria Hadden (49th).

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It is unclear when the regulation can be voted on.

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