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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
53-6012.1 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/3-6012.1)
7    Sec. 3-6012.1. Court security officers. The sheriff of any
8county in Illinois with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants may
9hire court security officers in such number as the county board
10shall from time to time deem necessary. Court security officers
11may be designated by the Sheriff to attend courts and perform
12the functions set forth in 3-6023. Court security officers
13shall have the authority to arrest; however, such arrest powers
14shall be limited to performance of their official duties as
15court security officers. Court security officers may carry
16weapons, upon which they have been trained and qualified as
17permitted by law, at their place of employment and to and from
18their place of employment with the consent of the Sheriff. The
19court security officers shall be sworn officers of the Sheriff
20and shall be primarily responsible for the security of the
21courthouse and its courtrooms. The court security officers
22shall be under the sole control of the sheriff of the county in
23which they are hired. No court security officer shall be

 

 

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1subject to the jurisdiction of a Sheriff's Merit Commission
2unless the officer was hired through the Sheriff's Merit
3Commission's certified applicant process under Section 3-8010
4of the Counties Code. If a county has a Sheriff's Merit
5Commission, court security officers shall be subject to its
6jurisdiction for disciplinary purposes. They are not regular
7appointed deputies under Section 3-6008. The position of court
8security officer shall not be considered a rank when seeking
9initial appointment as deputy sheriff under Section 3-8011.
10    Every court security officer hired on or after the
11effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996 shall serve a
12probationary period of 12 months during which time they may be
13discharged at the will of the Sheriff.
14(Source: P.A. 89-685, eff. 6-1-97.)