The Chicago Cook County Violence Against Women Task Force convened on April 21, 2026, at 5:15 PM, chaired by Commissioner Miller. The meeting focused on data transparency, domestic violence advocacy, and survivor needs. Two public speakers testified, and presentations were given by the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and LifeSpan.
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Speakers will have three minutes to address the task force, and we'll be alerted when they have one minute time remaining, and 30 seconds remain, and when time has expired. of the public we have uh uh public register uh lena care curry good morning everyone this is very important meeting for all survivors of domestic violence and and uh i personally and some other people want to gain more understanding with what data the this task force will be working um and i would request that task force would work more with data provided by survivors um the domestic violence or intimate partner violence is only the beginning it's very hard but it is also way harder when that abuse actually happening in the court system so the major the major um problem is institutional violence against women and domestic relations division is that institution that actively participates in violence against women where uh domestic violence division gives orders of protection those orders of protection in domestic relations division uh vacated there are no court reporters it's uh complete failure and uh since July of the of 2025 the majority of victims of domestic violence we testified actually about institutional violence in domestic relations there is no accountability evidence suppressed there are no court reporters judges allowed uh misconduct of of attorneys there are everywhere rules judges should report them they do not attorneys should report judicial misconduct they do not and there is no oversight multiple of us were complaining to chief judge's office and there is no significant changes nothing didn't have to reporters are not there is continuous day sequenic office refuses to prosecute miscolandic in spite of the QT and so I'm here to bring attention to this institutional violence against women and I would I'm asking the task force to actually explain to the public what we can do what you can do how this peace can be worked on thank you thank you then we have another uh registered public speaker patricia punta clappus thank you very much for listening to me um I have an issue it's everything that she said I went to five five five to complain about two Puerto Ricans have been harassing me and they wouldn't let me inside my building and then the other one wouldn't let me get out now I'm an elderly I'm 66 years old they're younger than me what do they want with me they want me to go and drink beer with them and what have sex with them what the heck is that I'm an elderly I don't need a man so then I went to Pi Pi5 what is it that that happened they know people Hispanic people that protected them and they just threw my teeth out I was like what happened here they didn't show up oh yeah they did show up but you didn't no I had this date and you are talking I'm really good in my dates because I put them on my phone I used to be a stenographer I used to be a secretary okay so then I know how to handle papers so then they act to me like oh no you didn't show up since I moved to 6252 South Knox Avenue I've had problems with the Hispanic with their loud music it's 10 11 12 1 2 3 o'clock in the morning four I was working as a part-time driver I needed to get up at four o'clock in the morning to go and then I couldn't I was so tired because they would have their loud music I started complaining they started harassing me okay now the thing is it stopped it's 95% quiet okay but I've been gone I've been through a lot the police handcuffed me without any reason I asked them to speak with a supervisor they denied me and they let me to Mount Sinai I was like wait I had to speak with a supervisor why am I a Mount Sinai they didn't tell me anything is this the way how the law enforcement takes care of the woman oh you know all the women are crazy they don't know what they're doing da da da no i am my sixth sense and everything but the thing is just what she said a lot of judges are being paid under the table because they say we help the Hispanics only that was anti Guerrero Coilar when I went to her office to talk about the migrants that were being uh harassing other people and doing gang signs and she said like oh we're not gonna do anything because I we only help the Hispanics thank you very much this is the United States of America I was even told by the none by the immigrants that wasn't allowed A lot of judges are being paid under the table because they say we help the Hispanics only. And that was anti-peral coiler. When I went to her office to talk about the migrants that were being uh harassing other people and doing gang signs, and she said, like, oh, and we're not gonna do anything because I we only help the Hispanics. Thank you very much. This is the United States of America. I was even told by the none by the immigrants that wasn't allowed to speak English. What the heck? What the heck is going on in the United States of America? Thank you. And that blessing, I hope you do a good job. Time is up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to the public speakers. Um I just want to thank everyone who's here for the task force. Thank you all for your willingness to serve on the task force. I want to thank Katie Dunn for helping us organize and facilitate these meetings. Alderman, otherwoman Tavares is also here. Would you like to say a few words of introduction? Yeah. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. I just want to welcome everybody. Thank you for being here. Thank you to our Cook County Commissioners who are here today. To uh Marianna Serapoulis, too, who was here today. Thank you for listening. I know we have a lot of presentations today. So I want to thank those who are here. Um I see the Chicago Police Department, Department of Family and Support Services. Thank you for listening. And this is very survivor led. And thank you also to Katie Dunn as well for organizing. Thank you.