CANDIDATE FOR: State Rep s3

IVI-IPO 2016 STATE’S ATTORNEY QUESTIONNAIRE Part I: Instructions and Candidate Details Instructions: From within your Word processor, please answer all questions in Part I (Instructions and Candidate Details) and Part II (Issue Questionnaire). Part II includes yes/no and short answer questions. Please mark the appropriate box for each yes/no question. If you wish to add comments to a yes/no question, or if elaboration is requested, you may type directly below the question by adding a paragraph return at the end of the question and typing your comments in the same cell as the question. In the Essay sections, please answer the questions at the length you deem sufficient. It is OK if your comments cause tables, etc., to shift pages. Thank you for your participation. Candidate Details DATE: PARTY:

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Candidate Details A) Elective or appointive, public or party, offices previously held (including dates).

B) Other elective offices for which you have been a candidate.

C) What is your primary occupation?

D) Briefly list your civic activities of the past ten years.

E) What experience have you had which will be most helpful to you in the office you seek?

F) Please list any candidates have you supported in past elections and specify your role in each campaign.

G) Please list all endorsements you have received.

H) Please concisely state (a) why you feel you should be endorsed over the other candidate(s) and (b) what goals for the office you seek are most important to you personally?

I) (a) What is your campaign budget and (b) how much have you raised to date?

J) (a) How many paid staffers and (b) how many volunteers do you have on your campaign?

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A. General: please mark the appropriate box. You may add additional comments, as needed, in the short answer section below. Do you support: YES NO Will you accept or have you accepted campaign donations from current or potential suppliers, 1 employees or outside contractors of this office? Will you employ or have you employed staff in your office who hold other public sector jobs 2 concurrently? Will you employ or have you employed staff in your office who have either outside employment or 3 contracts with entities which do business with the county? 4 Do you support patronage in hiring and/or promoting public employees? 5 Do you support affirmative action? Do you favor restructuring the wage scale of county employees to correct disparities based on 6 gender by instituting equal pay for jobs of comparable worth? 7 Do you support the right of Assistant State’s Attorneys to unionize? Will you consider applicants for employment’s personal ethical opinions concerning the Death 8 Penalty when making hiring decisions?

A. General: Essay 9. In what circumstances would you contract for outside professional services and what criteria would you implement for letting contracts? Please comment on any existing abuses and how you would correct them. Would you support contracting for outside services with companies located outside Cook County? Why or why not?

10.What is your position in regard to putting all Assistant State's Attorneys and other employees of your office under Civil Service or other merit systems? How would hiring minorities and women and retaining career personnel in your office be affected?

11. What is your position on state’s attorney promotions based on convictions?

12. Do you favor mandatory drug testing of your employees, prisoners, and/or probationers, and under what circumstances and standards?

13. Please address the issue of prosecuting police officers for police brutality or any other crime?

14. What is the appropriate role for the State’s Attorney Police force? Should it cooperate with other law enforcement IVI-IPO 2016 STATE’S ATTORNEY QUESTIONNAIRE Part II. Issue Questionnaire A. General: Essay agencies and if so, what guidelines should be followed?

15. What means would you employ to encourage neighborhood outreach and citizen input into your office?

B. Civil Rights and Public Policy Do you support: YES NO 16 legislation to prohibit the use of eavesdropping and wire-tapping in criminal investigations? 17 the mandatory videotaping of all interrogations? 18 prosecuting cases based on citizen audio or video recording of a police officer? 19 establishing an elected, all-civilian, police review board. Should any changes be made state of the law on fitness to stand trial and the insanity defense? If 20 yes, please elaborate below.

B. Civil Rights and Public Policy: Essay 21. What is your position on carrying concealed weapons?

22. What is your position on capital punishment?

23. How quickly is the State’s Attorney’s office required to turn around a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA). What do you think the turnaround time should be?

24. Under what circumstances should law enforcement agencies put citizens or organizations under surveillance?

25. Do present procedures adequately protect the rights of the accused?

B. Prosecutorial Discretion Do you support: YES NO Assistant States Attorneys having the power to reduce the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor 26 or dismiss the case outright if the circumstances warrant? a program to integrate aspects of the juvenile justice and child welfare systems to better serve children who cross between the dependency and delinquency systems and recommend to the 27 court which system could serve the best interests of the child and the safety of society? Please elaborate below. 4 IVI-IPO 2016 STATE’S ATTORNEY QUESTIONNAIRE Part II. Issue Questionnaire

B. Prosecutorial Discretion: Essay 28. What criteria will you employ in reaching prosecution, sentencing recommendation, and immunity grant decisions?

29. Please comment on the felony screening process currently used by the State's Attorney's office.

30. What do you think about the use of programs as alternatives to prosecution?

31. Should the present procedures for bail and personal recognizance bonds be changed and, if so, how?

32. In what circumstances, if any, would your office seek to prosecute juveniles as adults?

33. What would you do to reduce the wrongful prosecutions and convictions?

34. What would you do to avoid political influence on investigations and prosecutions?

B. Sentencing YES NO 35 Do you support determinate sentencing? 36 Do victim impact statements have a positive effect on the sentencing process?

B. Prosecutorial Priorities: Essay 37. What are your priorities in prosecuting various types of crime? What is your attitude toward prosecuting so called victimless crimes?

38. Comment on the adequacy of the State's Attorney's treatment of crimes of domestic violence.

39. How would you address the problem of hate crimes and violence against racial minorities, gays, and lesbians? How would you implement the Hate Crimes statute?

40. Under what circumstances would you prosecute political demonstrators?

41. Comment on the current procedures for handling rape cases. What changes would you make, if any?

42. What would you change, and what would you keep, in the present system of handling criminal housing prosecutions?

43. What are your proposals, if any, for increasing investigations and prosecution of election fraud?

B. Civil Duties: Essay 44. What types of cases involving law reform or civil activism (such as civil rights or environmental enforcement) would you anticipate bringing to the State's Attorney's office? IVI-IPO 2016 STATE’S ATTORNEY QUESTIONNAIRE Part II. Issue Questionnaire B. Civil Duties: Essay

45. What proposals do you have to increase public corruption prosecutions?

46. What would you do to improve and manage potential conflict of interest recusal policies for yourself and your top assistants in order to avoid situations like the Jon Burge investigation?

47. Comment on the propriety of prosecutorial public criticism of judges on criminal case outcomes.