Bill Text: IL HB3716 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. In a Section concerning the creation and operation of a Cyber Gang Unit (instead of Internet Gang Crime Units), allocates moneys to the Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group (instead of to the Cook County Sheriff's Office, the City of Danville Police Department, and the Village of Round Lake Heights Police Department). Provides that the Cyber Gang Unit Pilot Program terminates on July 1, 2012 (instead of 2010). Imposes conditions on any rulemaking authority. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0303 [HB3716 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB3716-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
2605-580 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-580)
Sec. 2605-580. Pilot program; Cyber Gang Internet Gang
Crime Units.
(a) The Department of State Police shall establish a pilot
program from moneys available under which Cyber Gang Internet
Gang Crime Units shall be created in the Lake County
Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the Cook County Sheriff's
Office, the City of Danville Police Department, and the Village
of Round Lake Heights Police Department. Under the pilot
program for the operation of Cyber Gang Internet Gang Crime
Units, 50% shall be allocated to the Lake County Metropolitan
Enforcement Group and 50% 40% shall be allocated to the Cook
County Sheriff's Office, 30% shall be allocated to the City of
Danville Police Department, and 30% shall be allocated to the
Village of Round Lake Heights Police Department.
(b) Under the pilot program, the Cyber Gang Internet Gang
Crime Units shall investigate criminal activities of organized

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gangs that involve the use of the Internet. For the duration of
the pilot program and in accordance with protocols for
inter-jurisdictional cooperation established by the Department
of State Police, peace officers in each Cyber Gang Internet
Gang Crime Unit shall, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, have extra-jurisdictional authority to conduct
investigations and make arrests anywhere in the State of
Illinois regarding criminal activities of organized gangs that
involve the use of the Internet.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any
criminal statute of this State authorizes the distribution of
all or a portion of the proceeds realized from property seized
or forfeited under that statute to participating law
enforcement agencies or the delivery of property forfeited and
seized under that statute to participating law enforcement
agencies, a law enforcement agency in which a Cyber Gang an
Internet Gang Crime Unit has been created is eligible to
receive such a distribution or delivery if that law enforcement
agency participated through its Internet Gang Crime Unit,
regardless of the jurisdiction in which the seizure or
forfeiture occurs.
(d) The Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the
Cook County Sheriff's Office, the City of Danville Police
Department, and the Village of Round Lake Heights Police
Department shall report to the Department of State Police on a
quarterly basis on the activities of their Cyber Gang Internet

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Gang Crime Units in accordance with reporting guidelines
established by the Department of State Police. The Department
of State Police shall file a consolidated report on a quarterly
basis with the General Assembly and the Governor. The
Department's consolidated report may also contain any
evaluations or recommendations that the Department deems
appropriate.
(e) The pilot program shall terminate on July 1, 2012 2010.
(f) As used in this Section, "organized gang" has the
meaning ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang
Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
(Source: P.A. 95-423, eff. 8-24-07.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.