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90_SB0025eng
310 ILCS 10/8.1c new
Amends the Housing Authorities Act. In a municipality
with more than 500,000 inhabitants, creates a Citizens Review
Board to monitor housing authority police, with 3 members
appointed by the Governor, 2 members appointed by the
presiding officer of the municipality, and one member
appointed by each of the legislative leaders of the General
Assembly. Authorizes the Board to suspend, terminate, or take
other disciplinary action against an officer who verbally or
physically abused a tenant or tenant's guest or invitee while
on or off duty or who entered the residence of a tenant
unlawfully. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Housing Authorities Act by adding
2 Section 8.1c.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Housing Authorities Act is amended by
6 adding Section 8.1c as follows:
7 (310 ILCS 10/8.1c new)
8 Sec. 8.1c. Citizens Review Board. A Citizens Review
9 Board is established for the housing authority in any
10 municipality having over 500,000 inhabitants to monitor the
11 housing authority police force.
12 The Board shall consist of 9 members with 5 appointed by
13 the Governor, 2 appointed by the presiding officer of the
14 municipality, and 2 appointed by the commissioners of the
15 housing authority. The initial terms of the members shall be
16 one, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years for the members appointed by the
17 Governor, one and 2 years for the members appointed by the
18 presiding officer, and one and 2 years for the members
19 appointed by the commissioners of the housing authority. The
20 appointing authority shall determine which initial term each
21 appointee shall serve. Each successor of the initial members
22 shall serve for a term of 4 years. The initial appointments
23 to the Board shall be made within 30 days of the effective
24 date of this amendatory Act of 1997. The Board shall select
25 one of its members to serve as chairperson. The Board may,
26 after notice and a hearing, remove by majority vote a member
27 of the Board who has been found guilty of neglect of duty or
28 malfeasance. If a member of the Board resigns or is removed,
29 the official who would appoint the member's successor shall
30 appoint a person to serve the remainder of the member's term.
31 After a member's term expires, the member shall continue to
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1 serve until a successor is appointed and qualified.
2 Subject to collective bargaining agreements, the Board
3 has the authority, after holding a hearing, to suspend,
4 terminate, or take other disciplinary action against a
5 housing authority police officer if:
6 (1) the officer is found by the Board to have
7 verbally or physically abused a tenant or his or her
8 guest or invitee while the officer was on or off duty;
9 (2) the officer is found by the Board to have
10 entered the residence of a housing authority tenant and
11 was neither (i) executing a legally issued arrest warrant
12 or search warrant for that residence nor (ii) otherwise
13 lawfully present in the residence; or
14 (3) the officer is found by the Board to have
15 verbally or physically abused a person on or off housing
16 authority property while performing his or her duty as a
17 housing authority police officer.
18 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
19 becoming law.