After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new electronic monitoring participants, marking the beginning of a shift in one way ...

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COOK COUNTY, Ill. — For more than three decades, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has been in charge of the Electronic Monitoring Program (EM), which was put in place to prevent jail overcrowding. But ...

For those not already working in the field of artificial intelligence, the rise to prominence of generative AI platforms—primarily, ChatGPT—seemed to happen overnight in November 2022. Since that time ...