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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4339 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2025. |
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| | HB4339 | | LRB103 35876 AWJ 65961 b |
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1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended by adding |
5 | | Section 30 as follows:
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6 | | (50 ILCS 205/30 new) |
7 | | Sec. 30. Encrypted police scanner transmissions. A law |
8 | | enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions |
9 | | must provide, by license or otherwise, real time access to |
10 | | those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting |
11 | | stations, and radio broadcast stations, as those terms are |
12 | | defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, and to newspapers, as that term is |
13 | | described in Section 5 of the Notice By Publication Act.
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