Bill Text: IL HB5607 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In the definition of "community policing volunteer", includes a person actively participating in a positive loitering program and who is engaged in lawful conduct intended to assist any unit of government in enforcing any criminal or civil law. Provides that "positive loitering program" means a sanctioned event by a law enforcement agency to promote community policing and positive loitering within communities, including, but not limited to, a positive loitering program held in conjunction with the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5607 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB5607-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB5607 Introduced , by Rep. Thaddeus Jones SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/2-3.5
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In the definition of "community policing volunteer", includes a person actively participating in a positive loitering program and who is engaged in lawful conduct intended to assist any unit of government in enforcing any criminal or civil law. Provides that "positive loitering program" means a sanctioned event by a law enforcement agency to promote community policing and positive loitering within communities, including, but not limited to, a positive loitering program held in conjunction with the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy.
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CORRECTIONAL BUDGET AND IMPACT NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
Section 2-3.5 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/2-3.5)
Sec. 2-3.5. "Community policing volunteer" means a person
who is summoned or directed by a peace officer or any person
actively participating in a community policing program,
including a positive loitering program, and who is engaged in
lawful conduct intended to assist any unit of government in
enforcing any criminal or civil law. For the purpose of this
Section, "community policing program" means any plan, system or
strategy established by and conducted under the auspices of a
law enforcement agency in which citizens participate with and
are guided by the law enforcement agency and work with members
of that agency to reduce or prevent crime within a defined
geographic area. In this Section, "positive loitering program"
means a sanctioned event by a law enforcement agency to promote
community policing and positive loitering within communities,
including, but not limited to, a positive loitering program
held in conjunction with the Chicago Alternative Policing
Strategy.

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(Source: P.A. 90-651, eff. 1-1-99.)