Bill Text: IL SB1410 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the curriculum for probationary police officers offered by all certified schools shall include courses on cyber-crimes and crimes committed with personal technology devices. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board may conduct or approve a training program in personal technology devices for law enforcement officers of local government agencies. Provides that the program shall train law enforcement officers to identify and investigate issues relating to crimes arising out of the use of personal technology devices on social media, internet communication, cell phone applications dealing with child exploitation, sending or receiving of sexually explicit messages, computer tampering, financial fraud, harassment, and stalking through electronic means. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1410 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1410-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by
changing Section 7 and by adding Section 10.22 as follows:
(50 ILCS 705/7) (from Ch. 85, par. 507)
Sec. 7. Rules and standards for schools. The Board shall
adopt rules and minimum standards for such schools which shall
include but not be limited to the following:
a. The curriculum for probationary police officers
which shall be offered by all certified schools shall
include but not be limited to courses of procedural
justice, arrest and use and control tactics, search and
seizure, including temporary questioning, civil rights,
human rights, human relations, cultural competency,
including implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity,
criminal law, law of criminal procedure, constitutional
and proper use of law enforcement authority, vehicle and
traffic law including uniform and non-discriminatory
enforcement of the Illinois Vehicle Code, traffic control
and accident investigation, techniques of obtaining
physical evidence, court testimonies, statements, reports,
firearms training, training in the use of electronic

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control devices, including the psychological and
physiological effects of the use of those devices on
humans, first-aid (including cardiopulmonary
resuscitation), training in the administration of opioid
antagonists as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (e)
of Section 5-23 of the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and
Dependency Act, handling of juvenile offenders,
cyber-crimes, crimes committed with personal technology
devices, recognition of mental conditions, including, but
not limited to, the disease of addiction, which require
immediate assistance and methods to safeguard and provide
assistance to a person in need of mental treatment,
recognition of abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, and
self-neglect of adults with disabilities and older adults,
as defined in Section 2 of the Adult Protective Services
Act, crimes against the elderly, law of evidence, the
hazards of high-speed police vehicle chases with an
emphasis on alternatives to the high-speed chase, and
physical training. The curriculum shall include specific
training in techniques for immediate response to and
investigation of cases of domestic violence and of sexual
assault of adults and children, including cultural
perceptions and common myths of sexual assault and sexual
abuse as well as interview techniques that are trauma
informed, victim centered, and victim sensitive. The
curriculum shall include training in techniques designed

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to promote effective communication at the initial contact
with crime victims and ways to comprehensively explain to
victims and witnesses their rights under the Rights of
Crime Victims and Witnesses Act and the Crime Victims
Compensation Act. The curriculum shall also include a block
of instruction aimed at identifying and interacting with
persons with autism and other developmental or physical
disabilities, reducing barriers to reporting crimes
against persons with autism, and addressing the unique
challenges presented by cases involving victims or
witnesses with autism and other developmental
disabilities. The curriculum for permanent police officers
shall include but not be limited to (1) refresher and
in-service training in any of the courses listed above in
this subparagraph, (2) advanced courses in any of the
subjects listed above in this subparagraph, (3) training
for supervisory personnel, and (4) specialized training in
subjects and fields to be selected by the board. The
training in the use of electronic control devices shall be
conducted for probationary police officers, including
University police officers.
b. Minimum courses of study, attendance requirements
and equipment requirements.
c. Minimum requirements for instructors.
d. Minimum basic training requirements, which a
probationary police officer must satisfactorily complete

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before being eligible for permanent employment as a local
law enforcement officer for a participating local
governmental agency. Those requirements shall include
training in first aid (including cardiopulmonary
resuscitation).
e. Minimum basic training requirements, which a
probationary county corrections officer must
satisfactorily complete before being eligible for
permanent employment as a county corrections officer for a
participating local governmental agency.
f. Minimum basic training requirements which a
probationary court security officer must satisfactorily
complete before being eligible for permanent employment as
a court security officer for a participating local
governmental agency. The Board shall establish those
training requirements which it considers appropriate for
court security officers and shall certify schools to
conduct that training.
A person hired to serve as a court security officer
must obtain from the Board a certificate (i) attesting to
his or her successful completion of the training course;
(ii) attesting to his or her satisfactory completion of a
training program of similar content and number of hours
that has been found acceptable by the Board under the
provisions of this Act; or (iii) attesting to the Board's
determination that the training course is unnecessary

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because of the person's extensive prior law enforcement
experience.
Individuals who currently serve as court security
officers shall be deemed qualified to continue to serve in
that capacity so long as they are certified as provided by
this Act within 24 months of June 1, 1997 (the effective
date of Public Act 89-685). Failure to be so certified,
absent a waiver from the Board, shall cause the officer to
forfeit his or her position.
All individuals hired as court security officers on or
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996
shall be certified within 12 months of the date of their
hire, unless a waiver has been obtained by the Board, or
they shall forfeit their positions.
The Sheriff's Merit Commission, if one exists, or the
Sheriff's Office if there is no Sheriff's Merit Commission,
shall maintain a list of all individuals who have filed
applications to become court security officers and who meet
the eligibility requirements established under this Act.
Either the Sheriff's Merit Commission, or the Sheriff's
Office if no Sheriff's Merit Commission exists, shall
establish a schedule of reasonable intervals for
verification of the applicants' qualifications under this
Act and as established by the Board.
g. Minimum in-service training requirements, which a
police officer must satisfactorily complete every 3 years.

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Those requirements shall include constitutional and proper
use of law enforcement authority, procedural justice,
civil rights, human rights, and cultural competency.
h. Minimum in-service training requirements, which a
police officer must satisfactorily complete at least
annually. Those requirements shall include law updates and
use of force training which shall include scenario based
training, or similar training approved by the Board.
(Source: P.A. 98-49, eff. 7-1-13; 98-358, eff. 1-1-14; 98-463,
eff. 8-16-13; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14; 99-352, eff. 1-1-16;
99-480, eff. 9-9-15; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16; 99-801, eff.
1-1-17.)
(50 ILCS 705/10.22 new)
Sec. 10.22. Personal technology devices. The Illinois Law
Enforcement Training Standards Board may conduct or approve a
training program in personal technology devices for law
enforcement officers of local government agencies. The program
shall train law enforcement officers to identify and
investigate issues relating to crimes arising out of the use of
personal technology devices on social media, internet
communication, cell phone applications dealing with child
exploitation, sending or receiving of sexually explicit
messages, computer tampering, financial fraud, harassment, and
stalking through electronic means.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

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becoming law.