103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4339

 

Introduced 1/16/2024, by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 205/30 new

    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.


LRB103 35876 AWJ 65961 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB4339LRB103 35876 AWJ 65961 b

1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended by adding
5Section 30 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 205/30 new)
7    Sec. 30. Encrypted police scanner transmissions. A law
8enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions
9must provide, by license or otherwise, real time access to
10those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting
11stations, and radio broadcast stations, as those terms are
12defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, and to newspapers, as that term is
13described in Section 5 of the Notice By Publication Act.
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
151, 2025.