The issue of who is on and off the ballot has superseded much of the discussion about the issues in the sheriff's race.
Amid an era of heightened concern over violence, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s opponents in his reelection bid have been trying to paint him to voters as a soft-on-crime boss who has been in the job too long — but most of them need to get back on the ballot first.
That is on top of what he said are efforts he’s pushed both inside and outside the jail to address underlying drivers of crime through mental health and substance abuse programming as well as employment support. For example, since 2019 some individuals found possessing or using drugs have been diverted from arrest and sent to a sheriff’s treatment response team that offers recovery services.
Both Navarro Gercone and Ruffin were knocked off the ballot after being deemed ineligible to run under separate Illinois appellate court rulings in the last two weeks.Carmen Navarro Gercone listens to members of the Cook County Electoral Board during a hearing on May 4, 2022. The board voted 2-1 to leave Navarro Gercone's name off of the June 28 ballot for Cook County sheriff.
Dart, who has said he did not know about the new requirement until after the law was signed, scoffed at Navarro Gercone’s characterization of why he mounted a challenge against her candidacy. Dart has maintained he has no control over how the makeup of its population shifted to include more individuals facing such charges after the county′s 2017 bail reforms,“There definitely needs to be a complete reform to electronic monitoring,” Navarro Gercone told the Tribune, saying she will open up more “conversations” with the courts to do so. “Violent offenders will have no place in my administration’s electronic monitoring program. … That is something that I am willing to go to battle on.
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