Bill Amendment: IL HB5613 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly

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Bill Title: TASK FORCE-CRIMINAL DISCOVERY

Status: 2016-08-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0874 [HB5613 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB5613-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Elgie R. Sims, Jr.

Filed: 4/4/2016

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5613
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5613 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Law
Enforcement Information Task Force Act.
Section 5. Task Force; purpose. There shall be created a
Law Enforcement Information Task Force to study and make
recommendations regarding criminal discovery and law
enforcement information sharing.
Section 10. Members.
(a) The Task Force shall consist of the following members
who will not be compensated:
(1) the Director of the Administrative Office of the
Illinois Courts, or his or her designee;
(2) the Attorney General, or his or her designee;

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(3) the Director of State Police, or his or her
designee;
(4) a State's Attorney from a county with more than
3,000,000 residents, or his or her designee;
(5) a public defender from a county with more than
3,000,000 residents, or his or her designee;
(6) a representative of the Office of the State's
Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
(7) a representative of the Office of the State
Appellate Defender;
(8) a representative of the Illinois State's Attorneys
Association, appointed by the Governor;
(9) a representative of the Illinois Public Defender
Association, appointed by the Governor;
(10) a representative from the Illinois Judges
Association, appointed by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives;
(11) a representative from the Illinois State Bar
Association, appointed by the Minority Leader of the House
of Representatives;
(12) a representative of the Chicago Bar Association,
appointed by the Senate President;
(13) a representative from the Illinois Sheriffs'
Association, appointed by the Senate Minority Leader;
(14) a representative from the Illinois Association of
Chiefs of Police, appointed by the Governor;

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(15) the chief of police from a municipality with more
than 1,000,000 residents, or his or her designee; and
(16) the sheriff from a county with more than 3,000,000
residents, or his or her designee; and
(17) the Director of the Illinois Criminal Justice
Information Authority, or his or her designee.
(b) The Law Enforcement Information Task Force shall be
established within the Illinois Criminal Justice Information
Authority and the Illinois Criminal Justice Information
Authority shall serve as the technology and policy advisor to
assist the Task Force. The Illinois Criminal Justice
Information Authority shall work with State and local criminal
justice agencies to promote information sharing systems
through its access to technical expertise and its grant-making
powers for technology information projects. The Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority shall provide staff to
serve as a liaison between the Law Enforcement Information Task
Force and its stakeholders to provide guidance in criminal
justice information sharing, best practices and strategies,
and to effectuate the mission of the Task Force.
(c) The members of the Task Force shall elect a chair of
the Task Force. The chair of the Task Force shall convene the
first meeting of the Task Force on or before August 31, 2016.
The Task Force shall meet at least twice a month thereafter
until it completes its duties under this Act, or until December
31, 2016, whichever is earlier.

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Section 15. Duties of the Task Force.
(a) The Task Force may consult with experts to provide
assistance as necessary.
(b) The Task Force shall:
(1) analyze the criminal discovery process in this
State to determine the actual costs, including, but not
limited to, labor, materials, time, and other tangible
costs of the current criminal discovery process to
determine how technology can improve the process for all
participants;
(2) analyze the process for information sharing,
including, but not limited to, an analysis of record
management systems, computer aided dispatch systems, and
other technology used to process information between law
enforcement agencies in this State to determine the actual
costs of the current process;
(3) analyze the current information sharing process
between law enforcement agencies to determine how
technology can improve the process for all participants;
(4) determine which prosecutors' offices obtain all
law enforcement discoverable evidence in an electronic
format, which prosecutors' offices will soon be able to
obtain all law enforcement discoverable evidence in an
electronic format, and which prosecutors' offices will not
have that ability at any point in the future without

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assistance;
(5) determine the barriers for those prosecutors'
offices that will not be able to obtain law enforcement
discoverable evidence in an electronic format without
assistance;
(6) determine which law enforcement agencies obtain
and utilize data entirely, or partially, in an electronic
format, which law enforcement agencies will soon be able to
obtain and utilize data entirely in an electronic format,
and which law enforcement agencies will not be able to
obtain and utilize data entirely in an electronic format at
any point in the future without assistance;
(7) study how a single statewide criminal information
sharing system or other technology may improve electronic
discovery or electronic redaction;
(8) study how a statewide standardized law enforcement
reporting form that can be easily redacted may improve the
criminal discovery process;
(9) study the short-term needs for law enforcement
agencies and State's Attorneys to facilitate greater use of
electronic discovery and information sharing;
(10) study whether a single standardized statewide
case record management system or other law enforcement
technology would provide better and additional access to
information for law enforcement;
(11) determine whether a single standardized statewide

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case record management system or other electronic
discovery technology would provide for a better and more
efficient criminal discovery process and offer any cost
savings;
(12) determine whether a single standardized statewide
case record management system or other information sharing
technology would provide for a better and more efficient
law enforcement information sharing process and offer any
cost savings;
(13) suggest an alternative funding process to the
State's current method to pay for criminal discovery costs;
(14) suggest an alternative funding process to the
State's current method to pay for law enforcement
information sharing costs;
(15) determine which executive branch agency, judicial
branch agency, or quasi-governmental organization is best
suited to serve as a conduit and coordinator for a
statewide criminal electronic discovery system; and
(16) determine which executive branch agency, judicial
branch agency, or quasi-governmental organization is best
suited to serve as a conduit and coordinator for a
statewide criminal information sharing system.
Section 20. Preliminary and final report.
(a) The Task Force shall provide a preliminary report to
the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 15,

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2016, if the final report is not completed by then.
(b) The Task Force shall issue a final report to the
Governor and General Assembly on or before January 15, 2017.
The report shall include recommendations for legislation, use
of technology, and other non-legislative processes that would
improve the criminal discovery process and law enforcement
information sharing.
Section 25. Repeal. This Act is repealed on February 1,
2017.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".