Cook County Probation officers say there’s a new pro-arrest policy regarding sexual offenders, which resulted from increased public scrutiny of their department.

Recently, one of our Liberty Leaders, Paul Detlefs, called into AM 560 (WIND) in Chicago to comment on excessive regulation of various professions.

The owner of a medical testing laboratory conducting drug tests of probationers in Cook County says the chief probation officer and several judges are pressuring him for data so they can turn negative drug tests into positive ones—passes into fails.

The Cook County Adult Probation Department is trying to strong-arm a local drug-testing firm into providing information that could falsely imply probationers have not stayed clean.

Daniel Anthony was an guest on Steve Edward's radio show. Anthony spoke about Institute's Snow Squad and Chicago's response to the 2011 blizzard.

Daniel Anthony and the Institute's Snow Squad featured in an article on Mayor Daley's response to the blizzard and the Lake Shore Dive clean up.