{"id":55655,"date":"2025-08-03T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/55655\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:11:10","slug":"pritzker-signs-two-laws-against-rogue-towing-companies-use-of-ai-therapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/55655\/","title":{"rendered":"Pritzker signs two laws against rogue towing companies, use of AI therapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Pritzker signs towing law, bill banning AI therapists <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/2025\/08\/03\/503b63b3-0231-49fa-b35b-1148f1f1c412\/1e3233b0d9ca64a520f86a7504b5d7a8-0-1754229682928.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/pritzker-signs-towing-law-bill-banning-ai-therapists\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Pritzker signs towing law, bill banning AI therapists<\/p>\n<p>          00:56<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governor JB Pritzker signed two new bills into law, with the first pumping the brakes on rogue towing companies.<\/p>\n<p>For years, CBS News Chicago investigated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/chicago-proposed-ordinance-rogue-predatory-tow-trucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rogue tow truck companies<\/a>, where people get into accidents and businesses show up claiming to help, but then hold cars hostage and charge huge fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new law closes a loophole where illegal tow operators re-register under a new business name.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also gives state police the authority to impound tow trucks that violate state safety tow laws and revoke license plates for tow trucks with unpaid fines.<\/p>\n<p>The second newly signed law bans artificial intelligence in mental health therapy in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act bans AI bots from posing as therapists and licensed professionals from using artificial intelligence to plan clinical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/search\/author\/cbs-chicago-team\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Chicago  Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">The CBS Chicago team covers breaking news, weather, groundbreaking investigations, and dedicated community reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pritzker signs towing law, bill banning AI therapists Pritzker signs towing law, bill banning AI therapists 00:56 Governor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,42094,74,42093],"class_list":["post-55655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-jb-pritzker","tag-technology","tag-tow-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}