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Cook County Sheriff’s Office Declared Shakman Compliant

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2011. Forty-two years after a lawsuit was filed alleging elected officials in Chicago were improperly allowing politics to influence hiring and promotional practices, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has become the first public office to be dismissed from that lawsuit.

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After two years of on-site monitoring and reports of activity, U.S. District Court Presiding Magistrate Judge Sidney I. Schenkier has delivered a first-of-its-kind ruling affirming that Sheriff Thomas J. Dart is operating an…

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