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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and | ||||||
| 3 | Standards Board is an agency of the State of Illinois that | ||||||
| 4 | receives moneys appropriated by the General Assembly from both | ||||||
| 5 | the Traffic and Criminal Conviction Surcharge Fund and from | ||||||
| 6 | general revenue; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and | ||||||
| 8 | Standards Board is charged under Section 6 of the Illinois | ||||||
| 9 | Police Training Act with selecting and certifying schools | ||||||
| 10 | within the State of Illinois for the purpose of providing basic | ||||||
| 11 | training for probationary police officers, probationary county | ||||||
| 12 | corrections officers, and court security officers; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Public statements made on behalf of the Illinois | ||||||
| 14 | Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board indicate that the | ||||||
| 15 | Board is seeking to operate its own police training academy; | ||||||
| 16 | and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and | ||||||
| 18 | Standards Board has no statutory authority to operate a police | ||||||
| 19 | training academy; therefore, be it
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| 20 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 21 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Auditor General is | ||||||
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| 1 | directed to conduct a performance audit of the Illinois Law | ||||||
| 2 | Enforcement Training and Standards Board to assess the Board's | ||||||
| 3 | use of the moneys appropriated to it by the General Assembly; | ||||||
| 4 | and be it further
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| 5 | RESOLVED, That the audit shall include, but not be limited | ||||||
| 6 | to, the determination of whether the Board has been spending | ||||||
| 7 | moneys appropriated to it by the General Assembly for | ||||||
| 8 | activities that are beyond its statutory grant of authority; | ||||||
| 9 | and be it further
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| 10 | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and | ||||||
| 11 | Standards Board, and any other entity having information | ||||||
| 12 | relevant to this audit, shall cooperate fully with the Auditor | ||||||
| 13 | General in the conduct of this audit; and be it further | ||||||
| 14 | RESOLVED, That the Auditor General shall commence this | ||||||
| 15 | audit as soon as possible and report his or her findings and | ||||||
| 16 | recommendations upon completion in accordance with the | ||||||
| 17 | provisions of Section 3-14 of the Illinois State Auditing Act; | ||||||
| 18 | and be it further | ||||||
| 19 | RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to | ||||||
| 20 | the Auditor General and the Executive Director and members of | ||||||
| 21 | the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standard Board.
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