The court was fixing something none of these groups considered broken. Now the IPA intends to try to overturn the rules in federal court. If you read last week's Hot Type and marveled at the blistering hostility to the Chicago Tribune expressed by groups of prosecutors, you might have supposed that the press and the forces of law and order are natural enemies. They share an old, familiar, workaday relationship that cops, prosecutors, and reporters all have an interest in preserving. Cops and prosecutors routinely know things the public finds out.
Reporters are the ones who do the telling.
Having failed to block the new rules, the state's attorneys of Illinois went about the mournful task of explaining them to local sheriffs and police chiefs. Prosecutors believe these new Rules severely restrict what can be disclosed to the press and, thereby, to the citizens. This preamble as much as announced that Haine was holding his nose as he typed. Now it's up to the fourth estate to look for ways to get around the rule. Which they'll do.