Bill Text: IL HB4604 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Law Enforcement Camera Grant Act. In provisions relating to the annual report that is required for each law enforcement agency receiving a grant for officer-work body cameras, removes requirements that the report must include specified information relating to each recording used in prosecutions of conservation, criminal, or traffic offenses or municipal ordinance violations and specified information related to recordings used in a civil proceeding or internal affairs investigation.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-31 - House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4604 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4604-Introduced.html

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4604

Introduced , by Rep. Justin Slaughter

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 707/20

Amends the Law Enforcement Camera Grant Act. In provisions relating to the annual report that is required for each law enforcement agency receiving a grant for officer-work body cameras, removes requirements that the report must include specified information relating to each recording used in prosecutions of conservation, criminal, or traffic offenses or municipal ordinance violations and specified information related to recordings used in a civil proceeding or internal affairs investigation.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Law Enforcement Camera Grant Act is amended
5by changing Section 20 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 707/20)
7 Sec. 20. Rules; officer body-worn camera grants.
8 (a) The Board shall develop model rules for the use of
9officer body-worn cameras to be adopted by law enforcement
10agencies that receive grants under Section 10 of this Act. The
11rules shall comply with the Law Enforcement Officer-Worn Body
12Camera Act.
13 (b) Each law enforcement agency receiving a grant for
14officer-worn body cameras under Section 10 of this Act must
15provide an annual report to the Board, the Governor, and the
16General Assembly on or before May 1 of the year following the
17receipt of the grant and by each May 1 thereafter during the
18period of the grant. The report shall include:
19 (1) a brief overview of the makeup of the agency,
20 including the number of officers utilizing officer-worn
21 body cameras;
22 (2) the number of officer-worn body cameras utilized
23 by the law enforcement agency;

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1 (3) any technical issues with the equipment and how
2 those issues were remedied;
3 (4) a brief description of the review process used by
4 supervisors within the law enforcement agency;
5 (5) (blank); for each recording used in prosecutions
6 of conservation, criminal, or traffic offenses or
7 municipal ordinance violations:
8 (A) the time, date, and location of the incident;
9 and
10 (B) the offenses charged and the date charges were
11 filed;
12 (6) (blank); and for a recording used in a civil
13 proceeding or internal affairs investigation:
14 (A) the number of pending civil proceedings and
15 internal investigations;
16 (B) in resolved civil proceedings and pending
17 investigations:
18 (i) the nature of the complaint or
19 allegations;
20 (ii) the disposition, if known; and
21 (iii) the date, time and location of the
22 incident; and
23 (7) any other information relevant to the
24 administration of the program.
25 (c) On or before July 30 of each year, the Board must
26analyze the law enforcement agency reports and provide an

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