The Ranked Choice Voting Committee needs your help. Please take the time to email the Oak Park Trustees and urge them to place the binding Ranked Choice Voting Referendum on the April 2023 Oak Park ballot. There are only two Board meetings remaining on their 2022 calendar, so it is very important that they hear from us now about agreeing to place this on the ballot. Do you want to know more about RCV? Go here to get the facts. Don't know what to say in your email? Use this sample email letter as a start. We need to show the Village President and Trustees that it is important to let Oak Park voters decide whether they want Ranked Choice Voting for the Village President, Clerk, and Trustees in elections starting in 2025. You can also attend the Tuesday, November 29, or Monday, December 5 Board Meeting in person to speak in support of RCV during public comment. Can't attend in person? Email your comments by 5:00pm via Zoom by using publiccomment@oak-park.us. Contact Peggy Kell with any questions.

You're invited to a fun social evening to learn about Ranked Choice Voting and to enjoy some outstanding beers from one of our local breweries. On Wednesday, December 14, from 6:30-8:30pm, we will be sampling and rating a flight of four beers at One Lake Brewing, 1 Lake Street, Oak Park. Tickets are $25, which will include the local brews and some snacks. You can always order your dinner to go along with the beer. Check out their menu here. There are a limited number of tickets, so don't delay. Buy your tickets here (scroll down to find the link). Invite a friend!

The SAFE-T Act is being worked on in the legislative veto session on November 29, 30, and December 1. Please ask your legislator to vote for a Pretrial Fairness Act Trailer bill that: retains the presumption of release in all cases,

ensures that people currently jailed for the inability to post cash bond can request a hearing to evaluate their eligibility for release, and maintains the essential features of the Pretrial Fairness Act.

And please oppose SB4228.

A “trailer bill” must be passed during the Veto session to clarify some parts of the Pretrial Fairness Act (part of the SAFE-T Act  passed last year) to ensure that the Pretrial Fairness Act will be properly implemented in January of 2023. Trailer bills of this sort are not unusual following complex omnibus bills. 

The League is advocating for a trailer bill that will ensure fair and efficient implementation of the PTFA. However, SB4228 has provisions that would increase the number of people eligible for detention in jail.

• The PTFA requires that people who are detained must be brought to trial within 90 days. But SB4228 would change that to 120 days.
• SB4228 creates a presumption of detention for certain crimes.
• SB4228 provides that only people charged after January 1, 2023 would be exempt from cash bond.

Mark your calendars now for some January training being offered by the LWV IL. On Saturday, January 14, there will be three trainings: Illinois Voter Guide at 9:30am, Candidate Forum at 10:00am, and Moderator Training at 11:00am. You can register to attend all or any of these opportunities here.

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