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# A Push to Stop Police Ticketing in Illinois Schools Becomes Urgent in the Trump Era
- URL: https://werd.io/a-push-to-stop-police-ticketing-in-illinois-schools-becomes/
- Published: 2025-02-04T16:42:07.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-04T16:42:07.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards at ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-student-civil-rights-police-ticketing-bill)\]

From my colleagues at [ProPublica](https://propublica.org):

> "Citing an urgency to protect students’ civil rights in a second Trump administration, Illinois lawmakers filed a new bill Monday that would explicitly prevent school police from ticketing and fining students for misbehavior."

This follows [an investigation into how Illinois schools call on the police for infractions](https://www.propublica.org/series/the-price-kids-pay) and - surprise, surprise - [penalize Black students twice as often](https://www.propublica.org/article/black-students-illinois-ticketed-by-police-for-school-behavior).

The police shouldn't get involved in troublesome kid stuff like truancy or vaping. That should be obvious. And, yet, here we are. This kind of police state nonsense absolutely paved the road towards where we are today.

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\[[Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-student-civil-rights-police-ticketing-bill)\]