Fotos de Enero de 2007

Attorney General Lisa Madigan Wednesday announced a partnership between her office, the Chicago Police Department (CPD), the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the U.S. Marshal’s Service (USMS)

to focus on tracking non-compliant sex offenders during a news conference in Chicago. Madigan was joined by members of the Illinois Sex Offender Registry Team (I-SORT) which included, from left, Homewood Police Chief Larry Burnson, President of the IACP, Maria Maher, Chief of Detectives of the CPD, John Clark, Director of the USMS, and Deputy U.S. Marshal Geoff Schenk of the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force. For more information, click here.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan Saturday stands with Art Johnston, President of the Board for Equality Illinois, during the group’s 2007 Justice For All Gala in Chicago. Equality Illinois was founded in 1992 to secure, protect and defend the basic civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Illinoisans.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan Friday administers the oath of office to 34 recently-hired assistant attorneys general (AAsG) at James R. Thompson Center in Chicago. There are currently 348 AAsG serving statewide.

Agnes Ptasznik, right, Community Outreach Liaison for Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Friday is interviewed in Polish by

Malgorzata Olejnik of TVP Chicago Channel 34. Ptasznik talked about the new law that allows consumers in Illinois to protect themselves from identity theft by placing a security freeze on their credit report by requesting one in writing by certified mail to a credit reporting agency. For more information on how to place a security freeze on your credit reports, click here.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan Monday stands with the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson,

Sr., founder and President of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, during the PUSH for Excellence 17th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholarship Breakfast in Chicago. This year’s theme was, “Remembering our milestones of faith, we pursue the path of freedom because the struggle continues,” and it included the awarding of 130 scholarships for students to attend college.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan Friday stands with the Rev. Charles Jenkins, pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church and member of Madigan’s African-American Ministers Advisory Council, during Mayor Richard Daley’s 21st Annual Interfaith Breakfast commemorating the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s theme of the event was, “King: A Man of Vision.”

Attorney General Lisa Madigan Thursday talks to second- and third-year law students attending the University of Illinois College of

Law’s Chicago Litigation Practice, or “Bootcamp,” at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago. Madigan gave a brief overview of the Attorney General’s Office and the type of work attorneys in the office perform. The “Bootcamp” class is designed to provide law students with a realistic experience of the substance and form of Cook County litigation, as well as expose them to various judicial levels, county and state agencies and practitioners.

Assistant Attorney General Christine Nielsen, who works in Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s Consumer Fraud Bureau, Friday talks with

a business owner about a possible breach of personal information. Nielsen works on privacy and security issues with consumers, businesses and agencies who contact Madigan’s office through her Identity Theft Hotline. Since its inception in February 2006, the hotline has received more that 4,000 calls. For more information on how to protect yourself from identity theft, click here.