Bill Text: IL SB0054 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Act. Provides that nothing in the provision requiring an investigator or other employee of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor who exercises powers of a peace officer to have a distinct badge prohibits the Director of the Office from issuing a shield or other distinctive identification to an employee not exercising the powers of a peace officer if the Director determines that a shield or distinctive identification is needed by the employee to carry out his or her responsibilities. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0054 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB0054-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Act is amended by changing Section 7.06 as follows:
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6 | (725 ILCS 210/7.06) (from Ch. 14, par. 207.06)
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7 | Sec. 7.06.
(a) The Director may contract for such | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | investigators to
provide
investigative services in criminal | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | cases and tax objection cases for staff
counsel and county | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | state's attorneys. Investigators may be authorized by
the board | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | to carry tear gas gun projectors or bombs, pistols, revolvers,
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12 | stun guns, tasers or other firearms.
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13 | Subject to the qualifications set forth below, | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | investigators shall be
peace officers and shall have all the | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | powers possessed by policemen in
cities and by sheriffs; | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | provided, that investigators shall exercise such
powers | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | anywhere in the State only after contact and in cooperation | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | with the
appropriate local law enforcement agencies.
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19 | No investigator shall have peace officer status or exercise | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | police powers
unless he or she successfully completes the basic | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | police training course
mandated and approved by the Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Law Enforcement Training Standards
Board or such board waives | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | the training requirement by reason of the
investigator's prior |
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1 | law enforcement experience or training or both.
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2 | The board shall not waive the training requirement unless | ||||||
3 | the
investigator has had a minimum of 5 years experience as a | ||||||
4 | sworn officer of
a local, state or federal law enforcement | ||||||
5 | agency, 2 of which shall have
been in an investigatory | ||||||
6 | capacity.
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7 | (b) The Director must authorize to each investigator | ||||||
8 | employed under this
Section and
to any other employee of the | ||||||
9 | Office exercising the powers of a peace officer a
distinct
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10 | badge that, on its face, (i) clearly states that the badge is | ||||||
11 | authorized by the
Office and (ii)
contains a
unique identifying | ||||||
12 | number.
Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (b), no | ||||||
13 | No other badge shall be authorized by
the Office. Nothing in | ||||||
14 | this subsection (b) prohibits the Director from issuing a | ||||||
15 | shield or other distinctive identification to an employee not | ||||||
16 | exercising the
powers of a peace officer if the Director | ||||||
17 | determines that a shield or distinctive identification is | ||||||
18 | needed by the
employee to carry out his or her | ||||||
19 | responsibilities.
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20 | (Source: P.A. 96-900, eff. 5-28-10; 97-1012, eff. 8-17-12.)
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21 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
22 | becoming law.
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