99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3992

 

Introduced , by Rep. Chad Hays

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/14-3

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Exempts from an eavesdropping violation recordings made simultaneously with the use of an in-car video camera or officer-worn camera (currently, an in-car video camera) recording of an oral conversation between a uniformed peace officer, who has identified his or her office, and a person in the presence of the peace officer whenever (1) an officer (deletes assigned a patrol vehicle) is conducting an enforcement stop; or (2) patrol vehicle emergency lights are activated or would otherwise be activated if not for the need to conceal the presence of law enforcement. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
5Section 14-3 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/14-3)
7    Sec. 14-3. Exemptions. The following activities shall be
8exempt from the provisions of this Article:
9    (a) Listening to radio, wireless electronic
10communications, and television communications of any sort
11where the same are publicly made;
12    (b) Hearing conversation when heard by employees of any
13common carrier by wire incidental to the normal course of their
14employment in the operation, maintenance or repair of the
15equipment of such common carrier by wire so long as no
16information obtained thereby is used or divulged by the hearer;
17    (c) Any broadcast by radio, television or otherwise whether
18it be a broadcast or recorded for the purpose of later
19broadcasts of any function where the public is in attendance
20and the conversations are overheard incidental to the main
21purpose for which such broadcasts are then being made;
22    (d) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
23any emergency communication made in the normal course of

 

 

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1operations by any federal, state or local law enforcement
2agency or institutions dealing in emergency services,
3including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, ambulance
4services, fire fighting agencies, any public utility,
5emergency repair facility, civilian defense establishment or
6military installation;
7    (e) Recording the proceedings of any meeting required to be
8open by the Open Meetings Act, as amended;
9    (f) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
10incoming telephone calls of phone lines publicly listed or
11advertised as consumer "hotlines" by manufacturers or
12retailers of food and drug products. Such recordings must be
13destroyed, erased or turned over to local law enforcement
14authorities within 24 hours from the time of such recording and
15shall not be otherwise disseminated. Failure on the part of the
16individual or business operating any such recording or
17listening device to comply with the requirements of this
18subsection shall eliminate any civil or criminal immunity
19conferred upon that individual or business by the operation of
20this Section;
21    (g) With prior notification to the State's Attorney of the
22county in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the
23aid of any device to any conversation where a law enforcement
24officer, or any person acting at the direction of law
25enforcement, is a party to the conversation and has consented
26to it being intercepted or recorded under circumstances where

 

 

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1the use of the device is necessary for the protection of the
2law enforcement officer or any person acting at the direction
3of law enforcement, in the course of an investigation of a
4forcible felony, a felony offense of involuntary servitude,
5involuntary sexual servitude of a minor, or trafficking in
6persons under Section 10-9 of this Code, an offense involving
7prostitution, solicitation of a sexual act, or pandering, a
8felony violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, a
9felony violation of the Cannabis Control Act, a felony
10violation of the Methamphetamine Control and Community
11Protection Act, any "streetgang related" or "gang-related"
12felony as those terms are defined in the Illinois Streetgang
13Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act, or any felony offense
14involving any weapon listed in paragraphs (1) through (11) of
15subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of this Code. Any recording or
16evidence derived as the result of this exemption shall be
17inadmissible in any proceeding, criminal, civil or
18administrative, except (i) where a party to the conversation
19suffers great bodily injury or is killed during such
20conversation, or (ii) when used as direct impeachment of a
21witness concerning matters contained in the interception or
22recording. The Director of the Department of State Police shall
23issue regulations as are necessary concerning the use of
24devices, retention of tape recordings, and reports regarding
25their use;
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1    (g-6) With approval of the State's Attorney of the county
2in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the aid of
3any device to any conversation where a law enforcement officer,
4or any person acting at the direction of law enforcement, is a
5party to the conversation and has consented to it being
6intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of
7child pornography, aggravated child pornography, indecent
8solicitation of a child, luring of a minor, sexual exploitation
9of a child, aggravated criminal sexual abuse in which the
10victim of the offense was at the time of the commission of the
11offense under 18 years of age, or criminal sexual abuse by
12force or threat of force in which the victim of the offense was
13at the time of the commission of the offense under 18 years of
14age. In all such cases, an application for an order approving
15the previous or continuing use of an eavesdropping device must
16be made within 48 hours of the commencement of such use. In the
17absence of such an order, or upon its denial, any continuing
18use shall immediately terminate. The Director of State Police
19shall issue rules as are necessary concerning the use of
20devices, retention of recordings, and reports regarding their
21use. Any recording or evidence obtained or derived in the
22course of an investigation of child pornography, aggravated
23child pornography, indecent solicitation of a child, luring of
24a minor, sexual exploitation of a child, aggravated criminal
25sexual abuse in which the victim of the offense was at the time
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1criminal sexual abuse by force or threat of force in which the
2victim of the offense was at the time of the commission of the
3offense under 18 years of age shall, upon motion of the State's
4Attorney or Attorney General prosecuting any case involving
5child pornography, aggravated child pornography, indecent
6solicitation of a child, luring of a minor, sexual exploitation
7of a child, aggravated criminal sexual abuse in which the
8victim of the offense was at the time of the commission of the
9offense under 18 years of age, or criminal sexual abuse by
10force or threat of force in which the victim of the offense was
11at the time of the commission of the offense under 18 years of
12age be reviewed in camera with notice to all parties present by
13the court presiding over the criminal case, and, if ruled by
14the court to be relevant and otherwise admissible, it shall be
15admissible at the trial of the criminal case. Absent such a
16ruling, any such recording or evidence shall not be admissible
17at the trial of the criminal case;
18    (h) Recordings made simultaneously with the use of an
19in-car video camera or officer-worn camera recording of an oral
20conversation between a uniformed peace officer, who has
21identified his or her office, and a person in the presence of
22the peace officer whenever (i) an officer assigned a patrol
23vehicle is conducting an enforcement stop; or (ii) patrol
24vehicle emergency lights are activated or would otherwise be
25activated if not for the need to conceal the presence of law
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1    For the purposes of this subsection (h), "enforcement stop"
2means an action by a law enforcement officer in relation to
3enforcement and investigation duties, including but not
4limited to, traffic stops, pedestrian stops, abandoned vehicle
5contacts, motorist assists, commercial motor vehicle stops,
6roadside safety checks, requests for identification, or
7responses to requests for emergency assistance;
8    (h-5) Recordings of utterances made by a person while in
9the presence of a uniformed peace officer and while an occupant
10of a police vehicle including, but not limited to, (i)
11recordings made simultaneously with the use of an in-car video
12camera and (ii) recordings made in the presence of the peace
13officer utilizing video or audio systems, or both, authorized
14by the law enforcement agency;
15    (h-10) Recordings made simultaneously with a video camera
16recording during the use of a taser or similar weapon or device
17by a peace officer if the weapon or device is equipped with
18such camera;
19    (h-15) Recordings made under subsection (h), (h-5), or
20(h-10) shall be retained by the law enforcement agency that
21employs the peace officer who made the recordings for a storage
22period of 90 days, unless the recordings are made as a part of
23an arrest or the recordings are deemed evidence in any
24criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding and then the
25recordings must only be destroyed upon a final disposition and
26an order from the court. Under no circumstances shall any

 

 

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1recording be altered or erased prior to the expiration of the
2designated storage period. Upon completion of the storage
3period, the recording medium may be erased and reissued for
4operational use;
5    (i) Recording of a conversation made by or at the request
6of a person, not a law enforcement officer or agent of a law
7enforcement officer, who is a party to the conversation, under
8reasonable suspicion that another party to the conversation is
9committing, is about to commit, or has committed a criminal
10offense against the person or a member of his or her immediate
11household, and there is reason to believe that evidence of the
12criminal offense may be obtained by the recording;
13    (j) The use of a telephone monitoring device by either (1)
14a corporation or other business entity engaged in marketing or
15opinion research or (2) a corporation or other business entity
16engaged in telephone solicitation, as defined in this
17subsection, to record or listen to oral telephone solicitation
18conversations or marketing or opinion research conversations
19by an employee of the corporation or other business entity
20when:
21        (i) the monitoring is used for the purpose of service
22    quality control of marketing or opinion research or
23    telephone solicitation, the education or training of
24    employees or contractors engaged in marketing or opinion
25    research or telephone solicitation, or internal research
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1    solicitation; and
2        (ii) the monitoring is used with the consent of at
3    least one person who is an active party to the marketing or
4    opinion research conversation or telephone solicitation
5    conversation being monitored.
6    No communication or conversation or any part, portion, or
7aspect of the communication or conversation made, acquired, or
8obtained, directly or indirectly, under this exemption (j), may
9be, directly or indirectly, furnished to any law enforcement
10officer, agency, or official for any purpose or used in any
11inquiry or investigation, or used, directly or indirectly, in
12any administrative, judicial, or other proceeding, or divulged
13to any third party.
14    When recording or listening authorized by this subsection
15(j) on telephone lines used for marketing or opinion research
16or telephone solicitation purposes results in recording or
17listening to a conversation that does not relate to marketing
18or opinion research or telephone solicitation; the person
19recording or listening shall, immediately upon determining
20that the conversation does not relate to marketing or opinion
21research or telephone solicitation, terminate the recording or
22listening and destroy any such recording as soon as is
23practicable.
24    Business entities that use a telephone monitoring or
25telephone recording system pursuant to this exemption (j) shall
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1monitoring or recordings may occur during the course of their
2employment. The notice shall include prominent signage
3notification within the workplace.
4    Business entities that use a telephone monitoring or
5telephone recording system pursuant to this exemption (j) shall
6provide their employees or agents with access to personal-only
7telephone lines which may be pay telephones, that are not
8subject to telephone monitoring or telephone recording.
9    For the purposes of this subsection (j), "telephone
10solicitation" means a communication through the use of a
11telephone by live operators:
12        (i) soliciting the sale of goods or services;
13        (ii) receiving orders for the sale of goods or
14    services;
15        (iii) assisting in the use of goods or services; or
16        (iv) engaging in the solicitation, administration, or
17    collection of bank or retail credit accounts.
18    For the purposes of this subsection (j), "marketing or
19opinion research" means a marketing or opinion research
20interview conducted by a live telephone interviewer engaged by
21a corporation or other business entity whose principal business
22is the design, conduct, and analysis of polls and surveys
23measuring the opinions, attitudes, and responses of
24respondents toward products and services, or social or
25political issues, or both;
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1motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio
2recording, made of a custodial interrogation of an individual
3at a police station or other place of detention by a law
4enforcement officer under Section 5-401.5 of the Juvenile Court
5Act of 1987 or Section 103-2.1 of the Code of Criminal
6Procedure of 1963;
7    (l) Recording the interview or statement of any person when
8the person knows that the interview is being conducted by a law
9enforcement officer or prosecutor and the interview takes place
10at a police station that is currently participating in the
11Custodial Interview Pilot Program established under the
12Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act;
13    (m) An electronic recording, including but not limited to,
14a motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio
15recording, made of the interior of a school bus while the
16school bus is being used in the transportation of students to
17and from school and school-sponsored activities, when the
18school board has adopted a policy authorizing such recording,
19notice of such recording policy is included in student
20handbooks and other documents including the policies of the
21school, notice of the policy regarding recording is provided to
22parents of students, and notice of such recording is clearly
23posted on the door of and inside the school bus.
24    Recordings made pursuant to this subsection (m) shall be
25confidential records and may only be used by school officials
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1investigations, school disciplinary actions and hearings,
2proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and criminal
3prosecutions, related to incidents occurring in or around the
4school bus;
5    (n) Recording or listening to an audio transmission from a
6microphone placed by a person under the authority of a law
7enforcement agency inside a bait car surveillance vehicle while
8simultaneously capturing a photographic or video image;
9    (o) The use of an eavesdropping camera or audio device
10during an ongoing hostage or barricade situation by a law
11enforcement officer or individual acting on behalf of a law
12enforcement officer when the use of such device is necessary to
13protect the safety of the general public, hostages, or law
14enforcement officers or anyone acting on their behalf;
15    (p) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
16incoming telephone calls of phone lines publicly listed or
17advertised as the "CPS Violence Prevention Hotline", but only
18where the notice of recording is given at the beginning of each
19call as required by Section 34-21.8 of the School Code. The
20recordings may be retained only by the Chicago Police
21Department or other law enforcement authorities, and shall not
22be otherwise retained or disseminated;
23    (q)(1) With prior request to and written or verbal approval
24of the State's Attorney of the county in which the conversation
25is anticipated to occur, recording or listening with the aid of
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1enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a
2law enforcement officer, is a party to the conversation and has
3consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in
4the course of an investigation of a qualified offense. The
5State's Attorney may grant this approval only after determining
6that reasonable cause exists to believe that inculpatory
7conversations concerning a qualified offense will occur with a
8specified individual or individuals within a designated period
9of time.
10    (2) Request for approval. To invoke the exception contained
11in this subsection (q), a law enforcement officer shall make a
12request for approval to the appropriate State's Attorney. The
13request may be written or verbal; however, a written
14memorialization of the request must be made by the State's
15Attorney. This request for approval shall include whatever
16information is deemed necessary by the State's Attorney but
17shall include, at a minimum, the following information about
18each specified individual whom the law enforcement officer
19believes will commit a qualified offense:
20        (A) his or her full or partial name, nickname or alias;
21        (B) a physical description; or
22        (C) failing either (A) or (B) of this paragraph (2),
23    any other supporting information known to the law
24    enforcement officer at the time of the request that gives
25    rise to reasonable cause to believe that the specified
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1    concerning a qualified offense.
2    (3) Limitations on approval. Each written approval by the
3State's Attorney under this subsection (q) shall be limited to:
4        (A) a recording or interception conducted by a
5    specified law enforcement officer or person acting at the
6    direction of a law enforcement officer;
7        (B) recording or intercepting conversations with the
8    individuals specified in the request for approval,
9    provided that the verbal approval shall be deemed to
10    include the recording or intercepting of conversations
11    with other individuals, unknown to the law enforcement
12    officer at the time of the request for approval, who are
13    acting in conjunction with or as co-conspirators with the
14    individuals specified in the request for approval in the
15    commission of a qualified offense;
16        (C) a reasonable period of time but in no event longer
17    than 24 consecutive hours;
18        (D) the written request for approval, if applicable, or
19    the written memorialization must be filed, along with the
20    written approval, with the circuit clerk of the
21    jurisdiction on the next business day following the
22    expiration of the authorized period of time, and shall be
23    subject to review by the Chief Judge or his or her designee
24    as deemed appropriate by the court.
25    (3.5) The written memorialization of the request for
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1be in any format, including via facsimile, email, or otherwise,
2so long as it is capable of being filed with the circuit clerk.
3    (3.10) Beginning March 1, 2015, each State's Attorney shall
4annually submit a report to the General Assembly disclosing:
5        (A) the number of requests for each qualified offense
6    for approval under this subsection; and
7        (B) the number of approvals for each qualified offense
8    given by the State's Attorney.
9    (4) Admissibility of evidence. No part of the contents of
10any wire, electronic, or oral communication that has been
11recorded or intercepted as a result of this exception may be
12received in evidence in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding
13in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer,
14agency, regulatory body, legislative committee, or other
15authority of this State, or a political subdivision of the
16State, other than in a prosecution of:
17        (A) the qualified offense for which approval was given
18    to record or intercept a conversation under this subsection
19    (q);
20        (B) a forcible felony committed directly in the course
21    of the investigation of the qualified offense for which
22    approval was given to record or intercept a conversation
23    under this subsection (q); or
24        (C) any other forcible felony committed while the
25    recording or interception was approved in accordance with
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1    prosecutions, only if the law enforcement officer or person
2    acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer who
3    has consented to the conversation being intercepted or
4    recorded suffers great bodily injury or is killed during
5    the commission of the charged forcible felony.
6    (5) Compliance with the provisions of this subsection is a
7prerequisite to the admissibility in evidence of any part of
8the contents of any wire, electronic or oral communication that
9has been intercepted as a result of this exception, but nothing
10in this subsection shall be deemed to prevent a court from
11otherwise excluding the evidence on any other ground recognized
12by State or federal law, nor shall anything in this subsection
13be deemed to prevent a court from independently reviewing the
14admissibility of the evidence for compliance with the Fourth
15Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or with Article I, Section 6
16of the Illinois Constitution.
17    (6) Use of recordings or intercepts unrelated to qualified
18offenses. Whenever any private conversation or private
19electronic communication has been recorded or intercepted as a
20result of this exception that is not related to an offense for
21which the recording or intercept is admissible under paragraph
22(4) of this subsection (q), no part of the contents of the
23communication and evidence derived from the communication may
24be received in evidence in any trial, hearing, or other
25proceeding in or before any court, grand jury, department,
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1other authority of this State, or a political subdivision of
2the State, nor may it be publicly disclosed in any way.
3    (6.5) The Department of State Police shall adopt rules as
4are necessary concerning the use of devices, retention of
5recordings, and reports regarding their use under this
6subsection (q).
7    (7) Definitions. For the purposes of this subsection (q)
8only:
9        "Forcible felony" includes and is limited to those
10    offenses contained in Section 2-8 of the Criminal Code of
11    1961 as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
12    97th General Assembly, and only as those offenses have been
13    defined by law or judicial interpretation as of that date.
14        "Qualified offense" means and is limited to:
15            (A) a felony violation of the Cannabis Control Act,
16        the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, or the
17        Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act,
18        except for violations of:
19                (i) Section 4 of the Cannabis Control Act;
20                (ii) Section 402 of the Illinois Controlled
21            Substances Act; and
22                (iii) Section 60 of the Methamphetamine
23            Control and Community Protection Act; and
24            (B) first degree murder, solicitation of murder
25        for hire, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child,
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1        assault, aggravated arson, kidnapping, aggravated
2        kidnapping, child abduction, trafficking in persons,
3        involuntary servitude, involuntary sexual servitude of
4        a minor, or gunrunning.
5        "State's Attorney" includes and is limited to the
6    State's Attorney or an assistant State's Attorney
7    designated by the State's Attorney to provide verbal
8    approval to record or intercept conversations under this
9    subsection (q).
10    (8) Sunset. This subsection (q) is inoperative on and after
11January 1, 2018. No conversations intercepted pursuant to this
12subsection (q), while operative, shall be inadmissible in a
13court of law by virtue of the inoperability of this subsection
14(q) on January 1, 2018.
15    (9) Recordings, records, and custody. Any private
16conversation or private electronic communication intercepted
17by a law enforcement officer or a person acting at the
18direction of law enforcement shall, if practicable, be recorded
19in such a way as will protect the recording from editing or
20other alteration. Any and all original recordings made under
21this subsection (q) shall be inventoried without unnecessary
22delay pursuant to the law enforcement agency's policies for
23inventorying evidence. The original recordings shall not be
24destroyed except upon an order of a court of competent
25jurisdiction; and
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1motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio
2recording, made of a lineup under Section 107A-2 of the Code of
3Criminal Procedure of 1963.
4(Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 97-846, eff. 1-1-13;
597-897, eff. 1-1-13; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 98-1014, eff.
61-1-15; 98-1142, eff. 12-30-14.)
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8becoming law.