Bill Text: IL HB2923 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. In provisions requiring a law enforcement agency to report misconduct committed by the agency's police officers, provides that the chief administrator of the law enforcement agency may be brought before the Certification Review Panel if the law enforcement agency fails to comply with the provisions. Provides that, upon a recommendation of the Panel, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board may suspend the chief administrator's law enforcement certification for a period of no less than 30 days. Allows the Board to bring a discretionary decertification action against the chief administrator for a second or subsequent violation of the provisions. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB2923 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB2923-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB2923 Introduced , by Rep. Bob Morgan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 705/9.2
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. In provisions requiring a law enforcement agency to report misconduct committed by the agency's police officers, provides that the chief administrator of the law enforcement agency may be brought before the Certification Review Panel if the law enforcement agency fails to comply with the provisions. Provides that, upon a recommendation of the Panel, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board may suspend the chief administrator's law enforcement certification for a period of no less than 30 days. Allows the Board to bring a discretionary decertification action against the chief administrator for a second or subsequent violation of the provisions. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by
changing Section 9.2 as follows:
(50 ILCS 705/9.2)
Sec. 9.2. Officer professional conduct database;
transparency.
(a) All law enforcement agencies and the Illinois State
Police shall notify the Board of any final determination of a
willful violation of department, agency, or the Illinois State
Police policy, official misconduct, or violation of law within
10 days when:
(1) the determination leads to a suspension of at
least 10 days;
(2) any infraction that would trigger an official or
formal investigation under a law enforcement agency or the
Illinois State Police policy;
(3) there is an allegation of misconduct or regarding
truthfulness as to a material fact, bias, or integrity; or
(4) the officer resigns or retires during the course
of an investigation and the officer has been served notice
that the officer is under investigation.

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Agencies and the Illinois State Police may report to the
Board any conduct they deem appropriate to disseminate to
another law enforcement agency regarding a law enforcement
officer.
The agency or the Illinois State Police shall report to
the Board within 10 days of a final determination and final
exhaustion of any administrative appeal, or the law
enforcement officer's resignation or retirement, and shall
provide information regarding the nature of the violation.
This notification shall not necessarily trigger certification
review.
If a law enforcement agency fails to comply with this
subsection, then the chief administrator of the law
enforcement agency may be brought before the Certification
Review Panel. Upon a recommendation of the Certification
Review Panel, the Board may suspend the chief administrator's
law enforcement certification for a period of no less than 30
days. The Board may bring a discretionary decertification
action under Section 6.3 against the chief administrator for a
second or subsequent violation of this subsection.
A law enforcement agency and the Illinois State Police
shall be immune from liability for a disclosure made as
described in this subsection, unless the disclosure would
constitute intentional misrepresentation or gross negligence.
(b) Within 14 days after receiving notification from a law
enforcement agency or the Illinois State Police, the Board

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must notify the law enforcement officer of the report and the
officer's right to provide a statement regarding the reported
violation. The law enforcement officer shall have 14 days from
receiving notice to provide a written objection contesting
information included in the agency's report. The objection
must be filed with the Board on a form prescribed by the Board
and a copy must be served on the law enforcement agency. The
objection shall remain in the database with the reported
violation.
(c) The Board shall maintain a database readily available
to any chief administrative officer, or the officer's
designee, of a law enforcement agency and the Illinois State
Police that shall show for each law enforcement officer: (i)
dates of certification, decertification, and inactive status;
(ii) each sustained instance of departmental misconduct that
lead to a suspension at least 10 days or any infraction that
would trigger an official or formal investigation under the
law enforcement agency policy, any allegation of misconduct
regarding truthfulness as to a material fact, bias, or
integrity, or any other reported violation, the nature of the
violation, the reason for the final decision of discharge or
dismissal, and any statement provided by the officer; (iii)
date of separation from employment from any local or state law
enforcement agency; (iv) the reason for separation from
employment, including, but not limited to: whether the
separation was based on misconduct or occurred while the law

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enforcement agency was conducting an investigation of the
certified individual for a violation of an employing agency's
rules, policy or procedure or other misconduct or improper
action.
(1) This database shall also be accessible to the
State's Attorney of any county in this State and the
Attorney General for the purpose of complying with
obligations under Brady v. Maryland (373 U.S. 83) or
Giglio v. United States (405 U.S. 150). This database
shall also be accessible to the chief administrative
officer of any law enforcement agency for the purposes of
hiring law enforcement officers. This database shall not
be accessible to anyone not listed in this subsection.
(2) Before a law enforcement agency may appoint a law
enforcement officer or a person seeking a certification as
a law enforcement officer in this State, the chief
administrative officer or designee must check the Officer
Professional Conduct Database, contact each person's
previous law enforcement employers, and document the
contact. This documentation must be available for review
by the Board for a minimum of five years after the law
enforcement officer's termination, retirement,
resignation or separation with that agency.
(3) The database, documents, materials, or other
information in the possession or control of the Board that
are obtained by or disclosed to the Board under this

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subsection shall be confidential by law and privileged,
shall not be subject to subpoena, and shall not be subject
to discovery or admissible in evidence in any private
civil action when sought from the Board. However, the
Board is authorized to use such documents, materials, or
other information in furtherance of any regulatory or
legal action brought as part of the Board's official
duties. The Board shall not disclose the database or make
such documents, materials, or other information it has
obtained or that has been disclosed to it to the public.
Neither the Board nor any person who received documents,
materials or other information shared under this
subsection shall be required to testify in any private
civil action concerning the database or any confidential
documents, materials, or information subject to this
subsection.
(d) The Board shall maintain a searchable database of law
enforcement officers accessible to the public that shall
include: (i) the law enforcement officer's employing agency;
(ii) the date of the officer's initial certification and the
officer's current certification status; and (iii) any
sustained complaint of misconduct that resulted in
decertification and the date thereof; provided, however, that
information shall not be included in the database that would
allow the public to ascertain the home address of an officer or
another person; provided further, that information regarding

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an officer's or another person's family member shall not be
included in the database. The Board shall make the database
publicly available on its website.
(e) The Board shall maintain a searchable database of all
completed investigations against law enforcement officers
related to decertification. The database shall identify each
law enforcement officer by a confidential and anonymous number
and include: (i) the law enforcement officer's employing
agency; (ii) the date of the incident referenced in the
complaint; (iii) the location of the incident; (iv) the race
and ethnicity of each officer involved in the incident; (v)
the age, gender, race and ethnicity of each person involved in
the incident, if known; (vi) whether a person in the
complaint, including a law enforcement officer, was injured,
received emergency medical care, was hospitalized or died as a
result of the incident; (vii) the law enforcement agency or
other entity assigned to conduct an investigation of the
incident; (viii) when the investigation was completed; (ix)
whether the complaint was sustained; and (x) the type of
misconduct investigated; provided, however, that the Board
shall redact or withhold such information as necessary to
prevent the disclosure of the identity of an officer. The
Board shall make the database publicly available on its
website.
(e-1) An investigation is complete when the investigation
has either been terminated or the decertification action,

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including the administrative review process, has been
completed, whichever is later.
(e-2) At any time, a law enforcement officer shall have
access to the law enforcement officer's own records on file
with the Board, as it pertains to the databases in this
Section.
(f) Annual report. The Board shall submit an annual report
to the Governor, Attorney General, President and Minority
Leader of the Senate, and the Speaker and Minority Leader of
the House of Representatives on or before March 1, 2023, and
every year thereafter indicating:
(1) the number of complaints received in the preceding
calendar year, including but not limited to the race,
gender, and type of discretionary decertification
complaints received;
(2) the number of investigations initiated in the
preceding calendar year since the date of the last report;
(3) the number of investigations concluded in the
preceding calendar year;
(4) the number of investigations pending as of the
last date of the preceding calendar year;
(5) the number of hearings held in the preceding
calendar year; and
(6) the number of officers decertified in the
preceding calendar year.
The annual report shall be publicly available on the

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website of the Board.
(g) Nothing in this Section shall exempt a law enforcement
agency from which the Board has obtained data, documents,
materials, or other information or that has disclosed data,
documents, materials, or other information to the Board from
disclosing public records in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act.
(h) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
the changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the
102nd General Assembly and Public Act 101-652 take effect July
1, 2022.
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 1-1-22; 102-694, eff. 1-7-22.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.