93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2800

 

Introduced 2/5/2004, by Rickey R. Hendon

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
725 ILCS 5/103-10 new

    Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that a law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer may not use a video camera or other device, openly or secretly placed, to record visual images of public streets or highways and pedestrians or motor vehicle drivers on those streets or highways for the purpose of enforcing the criminal laws of this State or the criminal ordinances of a unit of local government. Provides that video camera images recorded in violation of this provision are inadmissible in any criminal proceeding as evidence against a pedestrian or driver shown in those images and may not be used as a basis for an arrest of any person shown in those images to be violating the criminal laws of this State or the criminal ordinances of a unit of local government.


LRB093 20960 RLC 46944 b

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

SB2800 LRB093 20960 RLC 46944 b

1     AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
5 amended by adding Section 103-10 as follows:
 
6     (725 ILCS 5/103-10 new)
7     Sec. 103-10. Law enforcement agencies; use of video cameras
8 to enforce criminal laws or ordinances prohibited.
9     (a) A law enforcement agency or law enforcement officer may
10 not use a video camera or other device, openly or secretly
11 placed, to record visual images of public streets or highways
12 and pedestrians or motor vehicle drivers on those streets or
13 highways for the purpose of enforcing the criminal laws of this
14 State or the criminal ordinances of a unit of local government.
15     (b) Video camera images recorded in violation of subsection
16 (a) are inadmissible in any criminal proceeding as evidence
17 against a pedestrian or driver shown in those images and may
18 not be used as a basis for an arrest of any person shown in
19 those images to be violating the criminal laws of this State or
20 the criminal ordinances of a unit of local government.