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Podcast: In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons
Episode: Kim Foxx Reflects On 8 Years As Cook County State’s Attorney
Description: Foxx says voters elected her in 2016 to make fundamental changes to how the office operated with the people most impacted by the justice system. To that end, during her two terms in office, she helped oversee the end of cash bail and the legalization of marijuana in the county and statewide and raised the threshold for prosecuting felony retail theft from $300 to $1,000.
Reset sits down with Foxx to discuss her tenure as the county’s top prosecutor.
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