Putting The ‘Public’ In Public Health

1. COVID-19 Outbreak Has Endangered The Lives Of Youth In Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
From: The Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
“More than three dozen criminal justice reform and youth advocate organizations have urged court officials to take immediate action to reduce the number of young people detained – and in danger of being infected with COVID-19 – inside the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
“Each person held at the detention center should be evaluated for release to allow them to shelter-in-place at home, and immediate release should be granted to those youth already evaluated and determined safe to return home by the Cook County state’s attorney and public defender, according to a letter sent to Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne M. Burke, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans and other court officials.

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Posted on April 7, 2020

By David Cuillier/The Conversation

Students at the University of Florida who want to know how they are being protected from the COVID-19 pandemic can’t find out.
The university is hiding its emergency response plan under a legal loophole intended to keep terrorists and enemy combatants – not viruses – from exploiting government weaknesses.
Since the spread of coronavirus accelerated in recent weeks, local, state and federal officials throughout the United States have locked down information from the public. Examples include:

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Posted on April 6, 2020