Kristal Rivers campaign website goes live

A campaign website has been established for Assistant Attorney General Kristal Rivers, slated by the Cook County Democratic Party for the countywide Connors vacancy. That's a link to the website in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to the blog Sidebar.

Rivers has been licensed to practice law in Illinois since 1997. According to her campaign website, Rivers was licensed in Texas in 1996. She currently serves in the AG's Sexually Violent Persons Bureau where, according to the campaign website, "she civilly commits sexually violent criminals to a secure facility where they can receive sex offender specific treatment." Before joining the AG's office, Rivers was in private practice from 2001-10. She began her career in the Dallas County Prosecutor’s office in Dallas, Texas.