Posted on January 14, 2025

Judge Reassigned After Texting ‘My First Ankle Monitor’ Gag to Another Judge

Tim Hecke, CWBChicago, January 12, 2025

A Cook County judge elected in 2024 to her first six-year term has been reassigned after circulating an image of a fake toy called “My First Ankle Monitor” that included a rendering of a Black toddler wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.

“My husband’s idea of Christmas humor,” Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman wrote in a text that she allegedly circulated to another member of the judiciary by mistake. {snip}

Glennon-Goodman has been assigned a pretrial courtroom at 26th and California since April 2024, where she ruled on detention petitions and set conditions of release for people newly accused of crimes. {snip}

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Glennon-Goodman was the second most lenient of the pretrial division’s nine judges when considering detention petitions. {snip}

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