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Tracy Siska Adjunct Instructor Justice, Law & Criminology

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Tracy Siska
SPA | Finance & Personnel Administration
Main Campus
Bio
Tracy is founder and Executive Director of the Chicago Justice Project (CJP). Tracy created CJP to provide evidence-based criminological analysis to challenge justice system policies and practices. In addition, he has dedicated his career to exposing injustices, racism, and misconduct throughout criminal justice systems.

Furthermore, Tracy’s diligent use of data and efforts to connect all data across the criminal justice system has uncovered trends in agency patterns & practices. As a result, he has engaged in public advocacy campaigns, litigation, and relationship-building with policymakers and justice agency leaders to open data to help stop systemic injustices. He regularly testifies in front of local governmental bodies on justice-related issues and is sought out by policymakers for opinions on best practices for justice system transparency & accountability. He has been a driving force behind the creation of state-of-the-art websites, making justice system data transparent and publicly available to communities, policymakers, and the media. In addition, Tracy often appears in the New York Times, National Public Radio, the Guardian, MSNBC, and Newsweek, advocating for the benefits of criminal justice data transparency and the need for accountability in the criminal justice system.
For the Media
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • JLC-309 Justice and Public Policy