Good afternoon, Chicago.
Attorneys for the union representing Chicago police officers and the city’s Department of Law squared off before the Illinois Supreme Court today to argue the most significant police misconduct-related case in the city’s modern consent decree era — one that will decide the future of disciplinary proceedings involving Chicago Police Department officers accused of serious misconduct and the public’s right of access.
Matt Pierce, the Fraternal Order of Police attorney who delivered today’s argument, contended that CPD officers, as public employees in a collective bargaining unit, are entitled to have the most serious discipline cases heard and decided by a third-party arbitrator. Those hearings are inherently private, and there is no existing law that would force them to be open to the public.
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