Bill Text: IL SB0880 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Law Enforcement Officer Body-worn Camera System Act. Provides that each law enforcement agency shall, no later than January 1, 2018, implement and operate a body-worn camera system with the model policy or guideline for that system established by the Department of State Police before July 1, 2017. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits a police force that is not required to implement and operate a body-worn camera system under the Act from implementing and operating that system, provided that the system is implemented and operated in accordance with the model policy or guideline for the system established by the Department of State Police. Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to make conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0880 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB0880-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB0880 Introduced 2/11/2015, by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
20 ILCS 2605/2605-605 new
Creates the Law Enforcement Officer Body-worn Camera System Act. Provides that each law enforcement agency shall, no later than January 1, 2018, implement and operate a body-worn camera system with the model policy or guideline for that system established by the Department of State Police before July 1, 2017. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits a police force that is not required to implement and operate a body-worn camera system under the Act from implementing and operating that system, provided that the system is implemented and operated in accordance with the model policy or guideline for the system established by the Department of State Police. Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to make conforming changes.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Law
Enforcement Officer Body-worn Camera System Act.
Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
"Body-worn camera system" means an electronic system for
creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying,
and processing audiovisual recordings, including cameras or
other devices capable of creating those recordings, that may be
worn about the person of a law enforcement officer.
"Law enforcement agency" means the Department of State
Police, county sheriff's office, or municipal police
department.
"Law enforcement officer" means a peace officer employed by
the Department of State Police, county sheriff, or municipal
police department who is assigned duties by the employing law
enforcement agency to maintain public order or to make arrests
for offenses or ordinance violations, but does not include a
detective, laboratory employee, public relations officer,
liaison, or agency attorney even if he or she meets the
definition of peace officer but in which his or her duties do
not primarily involve maintaining public order or making

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arrests.
"Peace officer" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section
2-13 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
Section 10. Law enforcement officers; body-worn camera
system.
(a) Each law enforcement agency shall, no later than
January 1, 2018, implement and operate a body-worn camera
system with the model policy or guideline for that system
established by the Department of State Police.
(b) Nothing in this Act prohibits a police force that is
not required to implement and operate a body-worn camera system
under this Act from implementing and operating the system;
provided that the system is implemented and operated in
accordance with the model policy or guideline for the system
established by the Department of State Police.
Section 105. The Department of State Police Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding
Section 2605-605 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-605 new)
Sec. 2605-605. Department of State Police; model policy or
guideline for body-worn camera system.
(a) In this Section, "body-worn camera system" and "law
enforcement officer" have the meanings ascribed to them in

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Section 5 of the Law Enforcement Officer Body-worn Camera
System Act.
(b) Before July 1, 2017, the Department of State Police, by
rule, shall establish a model policy or guideline for the
implementation and use of a body-worn camera system by law
enforcement officers.