Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr.

Filed: 3/26/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3716

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3716 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil
5 Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
6 2605-580 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 2605/2605-580)
8     Sec. 2605-580. Pilot program; Cyber Gang Internet Gang
9 Crime Units.
10     (a) The Department of State Police shall establish a pilot
11 program from moneys available under which Cyber Gang Internet
12 Gang Crime Units shall be created in the Lake County
13 Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the Cook County Sheriff's
14 Office, the City of Danville Police Department, and the Village
15 of Round Lake Heights Police Department. Under the pilot
16 program for the operation of Cyber Gang Internet Gang Crime

 

 

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1 Units, 50% shall be allocated to the Lake County Metropolitan
2 Enforcement Group and 50% 40% shall be allocated to the Cook
3 County Sheriff's Office, 30% shall be allocated to the City of
4 Danville Police Department, and 30% shall be allocated to the
5 Village of Round Lake Heights Police Department.
6     (b) Under the pilot program, the Cyber Gang Internet Gang
7 Crime Units shall investigate criminal activities of organized
8 gangs that involve the use of the Internet. For the duration of
9 the pilot program and in accordance with protocols for
10 inter-jurisdictional cooperation established by the Department
11 of State Police, peace officers in each Cyber Gang Internet
12 Gang Crime Unit shall, notwithstanding any other provision of
13 law, have extra-jurisdictional authority to conduct
14 investigations and make arrests anywhere in the State of
15 Illinois regarding criminal activities of organized gangs that
16 involve the use of the Internet.
17     (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any
18 criminal statute of this State authorizes the distribution of
19 all or a portion of the proceeds realized from property seized
20 or forfeited under that statute to participating law
21 enforcement agencies or the delivery of property forfeited and
22 seized under that statute to participating law enforcement
23 agencies, a law enforcement agency in which a Cyber Gang an
24 Internet Gang Crime Unit has been created is eligible to
25 receive such a distribution or delivery if that law enforcement
26 agency participated through its Internet Gang Crime Unit,

 

 

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1 regardless of the jurisdiction in which the seizure or
2 forfeiture occurs.
3     (d) The Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the
4 Cook County Sheriff's Office, the City of Danville Police
5 Department, and the Village of Round Lake Heights Police
6 Department shall report to the Department of State Police on a
7 quarterly basis on the activities of their Cyber Gang Internet
8 Gang Crime Units in accordance with reporting guidelines
9 established by the Department of State Police. The Department
10 of State Police shall file a consolidated report on a quarterly
11 basis with the General Assembly and the Governor. The
12 Department's consolidated report may also contain any
13 evaluations or recommendations that the Department deems
14 appropriate.
15     (e) The pilot program shall terminate on July 1, 2012 2010.
16     (f) As used in this Section, "organized gang" has the
17 meaning ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang
18 Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
19 (Source: P.A. 95-423, eff. 8-24-07.)
 
20     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21 becoming law.".