101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB2627

 

Introduced , by Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/10-20.64
105 ILCS 5/34-18.57

    Amends the School Code. Provides that a student may not be questioned or detained at a school site at which students are detained in connection with criminal charges or allegations, taken into custody, or engaged with law enforcement personnel without the presence of the student's parent or guardian, a school social worker, or a licensed mental health professional. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
510-20.64 and 34-18.57 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/10-20.64)
7    Sec. 10-20.64. Booking stations on school grounds.
8    (a) There shall be no student booking station established
9or maintained on the grounds of any school.
10    (b) This prohibition shall be applied to student booking
11stations only, as defined in this Section. The prohibition does
12not prohibit or affect the establishment or maintenance of any
13place operated by or under the control of law enforcement
14personnel, school resource officers, or other security
15personnel that does not also qualify as a student booking
16station as defined in paragraph (2) of subsection (d) of this
17Section. The prohibition does not affect or limit the powers
18afforded law enforcement officers to perform their duties
19within schools as otherwise prescribed by law.
20    (c) When the underlying suspected or alleged criminal act
21is an act of violence, and isolation of a student or students
22is deemed necessary to the interest of public safety, and no
23other location is adequate for secure isolation of the student

 

 

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1or students, offices as described in paragraph (1) of
2subsection (d) of this Section may be employed to detain
3students for a period no longer than that required to alleviate
4that threat to public safety.
5    (c-5) A student may not be questioned or detained at a
6school site described in paragraph (2) of subsection (d)
7without the presence of the student's parent or guardian, a
8school social worker, or a licensed mental health professional.
9    (d) As used in this Section, "student booking station"
10means a building, office, room, or any indefinitely established
11space or site, mobile or fixed, which operates concurrently as:
12        (1) predominantly or regularly a place of operation for
13    a municipal police department, county sheriff department,
14    or other law enforcement agency, or under the primary
15    control thereof; and
16        (2) a site at which students are detained in connection
17    with criminal charges or allegations against those
18    students, taken into custody, or engaged with law
19    enforcement personnel in any process that creates a law
20    enforcement record of that contact with law enforcement
21    personnel or processes.
22(Source: P.A. 100-204, eff. 8-18-17; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
 
23    (105 ILCS 5/34-18.57)
24    Sec. 34-18.57. Booking stations on school grounds.
25    (a) There shall be no student booking station established

 

 

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1or maintained on the grounds of any school.
2    (b) This prohibition shall be applied to student booking
3stations only, as defined in this Section. The prohibition does
4not prohibit or affect the establishment or maintenance of any
5place operated by or under the control of law enforcement
6personnel, school resource officers, or other security
7personnel that does not also qualify as a student booking
8station as defined in paragraph (2) of subsection (d) of this
9Section. The prohibition does not affect or limit the powers
10afforded law enforcement officers to perform their duties
11within schools as otherwise prescribed by law.
12    (c) When the underlying suspected or alleged criminal act
13is an act of violence, and isolation of a student or students
14is deemed necessary to the interest of public safety, and no
15other location is adequate for secure isolation of the student
16or students, offices as described in paragraph (1) of
17subsection (d) of this Section may be employed to detain
18students for a period no longer than that required to alleviate
19that threat to public safety.
20    (c-5) A student may not be questioned or detained at a
21school site described in paragraph (2) of subsection (d)
22without the presence of the student's parent or guardian, a
23school social worker, or a licensed mental health professional.
24    (d) As used in this Section, "student booking station"
25means a building, office, room, or any indefinitely established
26space or site, mobile or fixed, which operates concurrently as:

 

 

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1        (1) predominantly or regularly a place of operation for
2    a municipal police department, county sheriff department,
3    or other law enforcement agency, or under the primary
4    control thereof; and
5        (2) a site at which students are detained in connection
6    with criminal charges or allegations against those
7    students, taken into custody, or engaged with law
8    enforcement personnel in any process that creates a law
9    enforcement record of that contact with law enforcement
10    personnel or processes.
11(Source: P.A. 100-204, eff. 8-18-17; 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
 
12    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13becoming law.