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Sheriff’s office creates public platform
to share jail population data

Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg
announced a new initiative in which
demographical information from the
Lake County Jail will be shared with
the community.
Through a partnership with Loyola
University Chicago, the Lake County
Sheriff’s Office will have the ability to
create comprehensive, centralized
Important webinar providing views of jail data for review and analysis
by the community. This data will give
updates on the Consumer
the community the ability to see infor-
Electronics Recycling Act mation such as daily jail population,
monthly jail population, and demo-
We strongly encourage county board graphical data such as race, ethnicity,
members and applicable department heads to gender, age, felony or misdemeanor
register for a FREE webinar “A Review and charges, as well as if the inmate is being held due to pretrial requirements, Judge
Updates to the Illinois Consumer Electronics ordered sentence, or being held for U.S. Bureau of Prisons (contract).
Recycling Act” to be held on February 4, 2020 Additionally, large datasets will be broken-down for internal analysis to assist
at 10:00 a.m. CST. stakeholders identify trends in jail population.

This webinar is sponsored by the Illinois “Making this data available to the public is another step
Counties Solid Waste Management Associa- in opening our doors and being transparent,” said Lake
tion (ILCSWMA). This important webinar will County Sheriff John Idleburg. “The community has been
provide information and updates and assist asking for these datasets for years, and I am happy to
Illinois counties with the opt-in requirements make it happen. While we are not responsible for the
established in the Consumer Electronics charges many of our inmates are being held on, I believe
Recycling Act (CERA). the community should have the demographical
information about who is being held in custody and why.”
IMPORTANT NOTE: If your county
intends on participating in the CERA This initiative was undertaken after listening to input from the public and external
supported electronics collection community partners, including the recently created Lake County Criminal Justice
program in 2021, you must register Citizen’s Council. Sharing crucial jail population data will increase transparency,
before March 1, 2020. reduce the amount of FOIA and other requests, and provide vital information to
government and community organizations to identify solutions to reduce recidivism.
The webinar will:
To access the data, please visit www.lakecountyil.gov/sheriff.
• Provide an overview of the 2019 collection
programs operating under the Consumer
Electronic Recycling Act.
Cannabis cultivation center
• Review the work performed by the
Manufacture Clearinghouse and the Illinois to nearly triple workforce
EPA in the expansion of electronics recycling
opportunities to State residents in 2019.
The cannabis cultivation center in the Tazewell County
• Help assist county decision makers in
city of Delavan is planning to nearly triple its number of
determining if they want to hold CERA
employees by the end of 2022 because of state approval of adult-use recreational
supported electronics collections in their
cannabis and growth of medical cannabis.
county.
As reported by The Pantagraph, Revolution Global, which has 112 employees
• Provide details related to the March 1, 2020 in Delavan, will add 50 employees after a second, 75,000-square-foot, pharmaceuti-
deadline for county opt-in requirements. cal-grade manufacturing facility is complete by June 1, CEO Mark de Souza said.
The total number of employees will grow to 300 when 600,000 square feet of
• Includes time for Q & A at the end. greenhouses are complete by the end of 2022.
Revolution has a 75,000-square-foot pharmaceutical-grade manufacturing facil-
Register online at: ity where cannabis grown indoors on the property is processed into food products
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/ and cigarettes and packaged. Revolution opened several years ago after cannabis
5916184401426887691
for medical use was approved in Illinois. Adults in Illinois have been allowed to buy
and use cannabis for recreation since Jan. 1. Revolution was approved by the state
After registering, participants will receive a
in November to grow cannabis for adult recreational use.
confirmation email containing information
about joining the webinar. Read the complete article by Paul Swiech at www.pantagraph.com.