Bill Text: IL HB4754 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Uniform Crime Reporting Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency shall publish monthly on its website, and submit to the Illinois State Police in a form, manner, and frequency as required by the Illinois State Police, the following information that occurred in the law enforcement agency's jurisdiction: (1) how many homicides occurred in a month based on the time of death of a victim; (2) how many of the homicides had an alleged perpetrator arrested and charged; and (3) how many homicides are considered cleared or closed for a reason other than the arrest and charging of an alleged perpetrator. Provides that information required to be published on a law enforcement agency's website must be published on the website by the end of the month following the reporting month. Effective January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-01 - Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper [HB4754 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4754-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4754 Introduced , by Rep. Kam Buckner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 709/5-12
Amends the Uniform Crime Reporting Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency shall publish monthly on its website, and submit to the Illinois State Police in a form, manner, and frequency as required by the Illinois State Police, the following information that occurred in the law enforcement agency's jurisdiction: (1) how many homicides occurred in a month based on the time of death of a victim; (2) how many of the homicides had an alleged perpetrator arrested and charged; and (3) how many homicides are considered cleared or closed for a reason other than the arrest and charging of an alleged perpetrator. Provides that information required to be published on a law enforcement agency's website must be published on the website by the end of the month following the reporting month. Effective January 1, 2025.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Uniform Crime Reporting Act is amended by
changing Section 5-12 as follows:
(50 ILCS 709/5-12)
Sec. 5-12. Monthly reporting.
(a) All law enforcement agencies shall submit to the
Illinois State Police on a monthly basis the following:
(1) beginning January 1, 2016, a report on any
arrest-related death that shall include information
regarding the deceased, the officer, any weapon used by
the officer or the deceased, and the circumstances of the
incident. The Illinois State Police shall submit on a
quarterly basis all information collected under this
paragraph (1) to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information
Authority, contingent upon updated federal guidelines
regarding the Uniform Crime Reporting Program;
(2) beginning January 1, 2017, a report on any
instance when a law enforcement officer discharges his or
her firearm causing a non-fatal injury to a person, during
the performance of his or her official duties or in the
line of duty;

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(3) a report of incident-based information on hate
crimes including information describing the offense,
location of the offense, type of victim, offender, and
bias motivation. If no hate crime incidents occurred
during a reporting month, the law enforcement agency must
submit a no incident record, as required by the Illinois
State Police;
(4) a report on any incident of an alleged commission
of a domestic crime, that shall include information
regarding the victim, offender, date and time of the
incident, any injury inflicted, any weapons involved in
the commission of the offense, and the relationship
between the victim and the offender;
(5) data on an index of offenses selected by the
Illinois State Police based on the seriousness of the
offense, frequency of occurrence of the offense, and
likelihood of being reported to law enforcement. The data
shall include the number of index crime offenses committed
and number of associated arrests;
(6) data on offenses and incidents reported by schools
to local law enforcement. The data shall include offenses
defined as an attack against school personnel,
intimidation offenses, drug incidents, and incidents
involving weapons;
(7) beginning on July 1, 2021, a report on incidents
where a law enforcement officer was dispatched to deal

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with a person experiencing a mental health crisis or
incident. The report shall include the number of
incidents, the level of law enforcement response and the
outcome of each incident. For purposes of this Section, a
"mental health crisis" is when a person's behavior puts
them at risk of hurting themselves or others or prevents
them from being able to care for themselves;
(8) beginning on July 1, 2021, a report on use of
force, including any action that resulted in the death or
serious bodily injury of a person or the discharge of a
firearm at or in the direction of a person. The report
shall include information required by the Illinois State
Police, pursuant to Section 5-11 of this Act.
All law enforcement agencies shall also submit to the
Illinois State Police the information required to be published
under subsection (b) in a form, manner, and frequency as
required by the Illinois State Police.
(b) A law enforcement agency shall publish monthly on its
website the following information that occurred in the law
enforcement agency's jurisdiction:
(1) how many homicides occurred in a month based on
the time of death of a victim;
(2) how many of the homicides described in paragraph
(1) had an alleged perpetrator arrested and charged; and
(3) how many homicides described in paragraph (1) are
considered cleared or closed for a reason other than the

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arrest and charging of an alleged perpetrator.
Information required to be published under this subsection
must be published on the law enforcement agency's website by
the end of the month following the reporting month.
(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21; 102-28, eff. 6-25-21;
102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)