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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing |
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| Section 12-6.4 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/12-6.4) |
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| Sec. 12-6.4. Criminal street gang recruitment on school |
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| grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds and |
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| criminal street gang recruitment of a minor. |
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| (a) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang |
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| recruitment on school grounds or public property adjacent to |
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| school grounds when on school grounds or public property |
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| adjacent to school grounds, he or she threatens the use of |
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| physical force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or
induce another |
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| person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or |
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| conspires to do so. |
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| (a-5) A person commits the offense of criminal street gang |
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| recruitment of a minor when he or she threatens the use of |
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| physical force to coerce, solicit, recruit, or induce another |
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| person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or |
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| conspires to do so, whether or not such threat is communicated |
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| in person, by means of the Internet, or by means of a |
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| telecommunications device. |
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| (b) Sentence. Criminal street gang recruitment on school |
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| grounds or public property adjacent to school grounds is a |
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| Class 1 felony and criminal street gang recruitment of a minor |
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| is a Class 1 felony. |
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| (c) In this Section: |
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| "Criminal , "criminal street gang" has the meaning |
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| ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang |
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| Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act. and |
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| "School "school grounds" means the building or |
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| buildings or real property comprising a public or private |
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| elementary or secondary school, community college, |
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| college, or university and includes a school yard, school |
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| playing field, or school playground.
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| "Minor" means any person under 18 years of age. |
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| "Internet" means an interactive computer service or |
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| system or an information service, system, or access |
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| software provider that provides or enables computer access |
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| by multiple users to a computer server, and includes, but |
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| is not limited to, an information service, system, or |
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| access software provider that provides access to a network |
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| system commonly known as the Internet, or any comparable |
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| system or service and also includes, but is not limited to, |
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| a World Wide Web page, newsgroup, message board, mailing |
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| list, or chat area on any interactive computer service or |
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| system or other online service. |
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| "Telecommunications device" means a device that is |
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| capable of receiving or transmitting speech, data, |
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| signals, text, images, sounds, codes, or other information |
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| including, but not limited to, paging devices, telephones, |
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| and cellular and mobile telephones. |
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| (Source: P.A. 93-938, eff. 1-1-05.)
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