Rep. Chad Hays

Filed: 4/12/2013

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2446

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2446 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
5changing Section 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 and television
10communications of any sort where the same are publicly made;
11    (b) Hearing conversation when heard by employees of any
12common carrier by wire incidental to the normal course of their
13employment in the operation, maintenance or repair of the
14equipment of such common carrier by wire so long as no
15information obtained thereby is used or divulged by the hearer;
16    (c) Any broadcast by radio, television or otherwise whether

 

 

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1it be a broadcast or recorded for the purpose of later
2broadcasts of any function where the public is in attendance
3and the conversations are overheard incidental to the main
4purpose for which such broadcasts are then being made;
5    (d) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
6any emergency communication made in the normal course of
7operations by any federal, state or local law enforcement
8agency or institutions dealing in emergency services,
9including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, ambulance
10services, fire fighting agencies, any public utility,
11emergency repair facility, civilian defense establishment or
12military installation;
13    (e) Recording the proceedings of any meeting required to be
14open by the Open Meetings Act, as amended;
15    (f) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
16incoming telephone calls of phone lines publicly listed or
17advertised as consumer "hotlines" by manufacturers or
18retailers of food and drug products. Such recordings must be
19destroyed, erased or turned over to local law enforcement
20authorities within 24 hours from the time of such recording and
21shall not be otherwise disseminated. Failure on the part of the
22individual or business operating any such recording or
23listening device to comply with the requirements of this
24subsection shall eliminate any civil or criminal immunity
25conferred upon that individual or business by the operation of
26this Section;

 

 

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1    (g) With prior notification to the State's Attorney of the
2county in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the
3aid of any device to any conversation where a law enforcement
4officer, or any person acting at the direction of law
5enforcement, is a party to the conversation and has consented
6to it being intercepted or recorded under circumstances where
7the use of the device is necessary for the protection of the
8law enforcement officer or any person acting at the direction
9of law enforcement, in the course of an investigation of a
10forcible felony, a felony offense of involuntary servitude,
11involuntary sexual servitude of a minor, or trafficking in
12persons under Section 10-9 of this Code, an offense involving
13prostitution, solicitation of a sexual act, or pandering, a
14felony violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, a
15felony violation of the Cannabis Control Act, a felony
16violation of the Methamphetamine Control and Community
17Protection Act, any "streetgang related" or "gang-related"
18felony as those terms are defined in the Illinois Streetgang
19Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act, or any felony offense
20involving any weapon listed in paragraphs (1) through (11) of
21subsection (a) of Section 24-1 of this Code. Any recording or
22evidence derived as the result of this exemption shall be
23inadmissible in any proceeding, criminal, civil or
24administrative, except (i) where a party to the conversation
25suffers great bodily injury or is killed during such
26conversation, or (ii) when used as direct impeachment of a

 

 

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1witness concerning matters contained in the interception or
2recording. The Director of the Department of State Police shall
3issue regulations as are necessary concerning the use of
4devices, retention of tape recordings, and reports regarding
5their use;
6    (g-5) With approval of the State's Attorney of the county
7in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the aid of
8any device to any conversation where a law enforcement officer,
9or any person acting at the direction of law enforcement, is a
10party to the conversation and has consented to it being
11intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of
12any offense defined in Article 29D of this Code. In all such
13cases, an application for an order approving the previous or
14continuing use of an eavesdropping device must be made within
1548 hours of the commencement of such use. In the absence of
16such an order, or upon its denial, any continuing use shall
17immediately terminate. The Director of State Police shall issue
18rules as are necessary concerning the use of devices, retention
19of tape recordings, and reports regarding their use.
20    Any recording or evidence obtained or derived in the course
21of an investigation of any offense defined in Article 29D of
22this Code shall, upon motion of the State's Attorney or
23Attorney General prosecuting any violation of Article 29D, be
24reviewed in camera with notice to all parties present by the
25court presiding over the criminal case, and, if ruled by the
26court to be relevant and otherwise admissible, it shall be

 

 

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1admissible at the trial of the criminal case.
2    This subsection (g-5) is inoperative on and after January
31, 2005. No conversations recorded or monitored pursuant to
4this subsection (g-5) shall be inadmissible in a court of law
5by virtue of the repeal of this subsection (g-5) on January 1,
62005;
7    (g-6) With approval of the State's Attorney of the county
8in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the aid of
9any device to any conversation where a law enforcement officer,
10or any person acting at the direction of law enforcement, is a
11party to the conversation and has consented to it being
12intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of
13involuntary servitude, involuntary sexual servitude of a
14minor, trafficking in persons, child pornography, aggravated
15child pornography, indecent solicitation of a child, child
16abduction, luring of a minor, sexual exploitation of a child,
17predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated
18criminal sexual abuse in which the victim of the offense was at
19the time of the commission of the offense under 18 years of
20age, criminal sexual abuse by force or threat of force in which
21the victim of the offense was at the time of the commission of
22the offense under 18 years of age, or aggravated criminal
23sexual assault in which the victim of the offense was at the
24time of the commission of the offense under 18 years of age. In
25all such cases, an application for an order approving the
26previous or continuing use of an eavesdropping device must be

 

 

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1made within 48 hours of the commencement of such use. In the
2absence of such an order, or upon its denial, any continuing
3use shall immediately terminate. The Director of State Police
4shall issue rules as are necessary concerning the use of
5devices, retention of recordings, and reports regarding their
6use. Any recording or evidence obtained or derived in the
7course of an investigation of involuntary servitude,
8involuntary sexual servitude of a minor, trafficking in
9persons, child pornography, aggravated child pornography,
10indecent solicitation of a child, child abduction, luring of a
11minor, sexual exploitation of a child, predatory criminal
12sexual assault of a child, aggravated criminal sexual abuse in
13which the victim of the offense was at the time of the
14commission of the offense under 18 years of age, criminal
15sexual abuse by force or threat of force in which the victim of
16the offense was at the time of the commission of the offense
17under 18 years of age, or aggravated criminal sexual assault in
18which the victim of the offense was at the time of the
19commission of the offense under 18 years of age shall, upon
20motion of the State's Attorney or Attorney General prosecuting
21any case involving involuntary servitude, involuntary sexual
22servitude of a minor, trafficking in persons, child
23pornography, aggravated child pornography, indecent
24solicitation of a child, child abduction, luring of a minor,
25sexual exploitation of a child, predatory criminal sexual
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1the victim of the offense was at the time of the commission of
2the offense under 18 years of age, criminal sexual abuse by
3force or threat of force in which the victim of the offense was
4at the time of the commission of the offense under 18 years of
5age, or aggravated criminal sexual assault in which the victim
6of the offense was at the time of the commission of the offense
7under 18 years of age, be reviewed in camera with notice to all
8parties present by the court presiding over the criminal case,
9and, if ruled by the court to be relevant and otherwise
10admissible, it shall be admissible at the trial of the criminal
11case. Absent such a ruling, any such recording or evidence
12shall not be admissible at the trial of the criminal case;
13    (h) Recordings made simultaneously with the use of an
14in-car video camera or officer-worn video camera recording of
15an oral conversation between a uniformed peace officer, who has
16identified his or her office, and a person in the presence of
17the peace officer whenever (i) an officer assigned a patrol
18vehicle is conducting an enforcement stop; or (ii) patrol
19vehicle emergency lights are activated or would otherwise be
20activated if not for the need to conceal the presence of law
21enforcement.
22    For the purposes of this subsection (h), "enforcement stop"
23means an action by a law enforcement officer in relation to
24enforcement and investigation duties, including but not
25limited to, traffic stops, pedestrian stops, abandoned vehicle
26contacts, motorist assists, commercial motor vehicle stops,

 

 

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1roadside safety checks, requests for identification, or
2responses to requests for emergency assistance;
3    (h-1) Recordings made simultaneously with the use of an
4officer-worn video camera recording of an oral conversation
5between a uniformed peace officer, who has identified his or
6her office, and a person in the presence of the peace officer,
7whenever the officer has reasonable suspicion that a person in
8the vicinity has committed, is committing, or is about to
9commit an offense.
10    (h-5) Recordings of utterances made by a person while in
11the presence of a uniformed peace officer and while an occupant
12of a police vehicle including, but not limited to, (i)
13recordings made simultaneously with the use of an in-car video
14camera and (ii) recordings made in the presence of the peace
15officer utilizing video or audio systems, or both, authorized
16by the law enforcement agency;
17    (h-10) Recordings made simultaneously with a video camera
18recording during the use of a taser or similar weapon or device
19by a peace officer if the weapon or device is equipped with
20such camera;
21    (h-15) Recordings made under subsection (h), (h-5), or
22(h-10) shall be retained by the law enforcement agency that
23employs the peace officer who made the recordings for a storage
24period of 90 days, unless the recordings are made as a part of
25an arrest or the recordings are deemed evidence in any
26criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding and then the

 

 

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1recordings must only be destroyed upon a final disposition and
2an order from the court. Under no circumstances shall any
3recording be altered or erased prior to the expiration of the
4designated storage period. Upon completion of the storage
5period, the recording medium may be erased and reissued for
6operational use;
7    (i) Recording of a conversation made by or at the request
8of a person, not a law enforcement officer or agent of a law
9enforcement officer, who is a party to the conversation, under
10reasonable suspicion that another party to the conversation is
11committing, is about to commit, or has committed a criminal
12offense against the person or a member of his or her immediate
13household, and there is reason to believe that evidence of the
14criminal offense may be obtained by the recording;
15    (j) The use of a telephone monitoring device by either (1)
16a corporation or other business entity engaged in marketing or
17opinion research or (2) a corporation or other business entity
18engaged in telephone solicitation, as defined in this
19subsection, to record or listen to oral telephone solicitation
20conversations or marketing or opinion research conversations
21by an employee of the corporation or other business entity
22when:
23        (i) the monitoring is used for the purpose of service
24    quality control of marketing or opinion research or
25    telephone solicitation, the education or training of
26    employees or contractors engaged in marketing or opinion

 

 

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1    research or telephone solicitation, or internal research
2    related to marketing or opinion research or telephone
3    solicitation; and
4        (ii) the monitoring is used with the consent of at
5    least one person who is an active party to the marketing or
6    opinion research conversation or telephone solicitation
7    conversation being monitored.
8    No communication or conversation or any part, portion, or
9aspect of the communication or conversation made, acquired, or
10obtained, directly or indirectly, under this exemption (j), may
11be, directly or indirectly, furnished to any law enforcement
12officer, agency, or official for any purpose or used in any
13inquiry or investigation, or used, directly or indirectly, in
14any administrative, judicial, or other proceeding, or divulged
15to any third party.
16    When recording or listening authorized by this subsection
17(j) on telephone lines used for marketing or opinion research
18or telephone solicitation purposes results in recording or
19listening to a conversation that does not relate to marketing
20or opinion research or telephone solicitation; the person
21recording or listening shall, immediately upon determining
22that the conversation does not relate to marketing or opinion
23research or telephone solicitation, terminate the recording or
24listening and destroy any such recording as soon as is
25practicable.
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1telephone recording system pursuant to this exemption (j) shall
2provide current and prospective employees with notice that the
3monitoring or recordings may occur during the course of their
4employment. The notice shall include prominent signage
5notification within the workplace.
6    Business entities that use a telephone monitoring or
7telephone recording system pursuant to this exemption (j) shall
8provide their employees or agents with access to personal-only
9telephone lines which may be pay telephones, that are not
10subject to telephone monitoring or telephone recording.
11    For the purposes of this subsection (j), "telephone
12solicitation" means a communication through the use of a
13telephone by live operators:
14        (i) soliciting the sale of goods or services;
15        (ii) receiving orders for the sale of goods or
16    services;
17        (iii) assisting in the use of goods or services; or
18        (iv) engaging in the solicitation, administration, or
19    collection of bank or retail credit accounts.
20    For the purposes of this subsection (j), "marketing or
21opinion research" means a marketing or opinion research
22interview conducted by a live telephone interviewer engaged by
23a corporation or other business entity whose principal business
24is the design, conduct, and analysis of polls and surveys
25measuring the opinions, attitudes, and responses of
26respondents toward products and services, or social or

 

 

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1political issues, or both;
2    (k) Electronic recordings, including but not limited to, a
3motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio
4recording, made of a custodial interrogation of an individual
5at a police station or other place of detention by a law
6enforcement officer under Section 5-401.5 of the Juvenile Court
7Act of 1987 or Section 103-2.1 of the Code of Criminal
8Procedure of 1963;
9    (l) Recording the interview or statement of any person when
10the person knows that the interview is being conducted by a law
11enforcement officer or prosecutor and the interview takes place
12at a police station that is currently participating in the
13Custodial Interview Pilot Program established under the
14Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act;
15    (m) An electronic recording, including but not limited to,
16a motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio
17recording, made of the interior of a school bus while the
18school bus is being used in the transportation of students to
19and from school and school-sponsored activities, when the
20school board has adopted a policy authorizing such recording,
21notice of such recording policy is included in student
22handbooks and other documents including the policies of the
23school, notice of the policy regarding recording is provided to
24parents of students, and notice of such recording is clearly
25posted on the door of and inside the school bus.
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1confidential records and may only be used by school officials
2(or their designees) and law enforcement personnel for
3investigations, school disciplinary actions and hearings,
4proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and criminal
5prosecutions, related to incidents occurring in or around the
6school bus;
7    (n) Recording or listening to an audio transmission from a
8microphone placed by a person under the authority of a law
9enforcement agency inside a bait car surveillance vehicle while
10simultaneously capturing a photographic or video image;
11    (o) The use of an eavesdropping camera or audio device
12during an ongoing hostage or barricade situation by a law
13enforcement officer or individual acting on behalf of a law
14enforcement officer when the use of such device is necessary to
15protect the safety of the general public, hostages, or law
16enforcement officers or anyone acting on their behalf;
17    (p) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
18incoming telephone calls of phone lines publicly listed or
19advertised as the "CPS Violence Prevention Hotline", but only
20where the notice of recording is given at the beginning of each
21call as required by Section 34-21.8 of the School Code. The
22recordings may be retained only by the Chicago Police
23Department or other law enforcement authorities, and shall not
24be otherwise retained or disseminated; and
25    (q)(1) With prior request to and verbal approval of the
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1anticipated to occur, recording or listening with the aid of an
2eavesdropping device to a conversation in which a law
3enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a
4law enforcement officer, is a party to the conversation and has
5consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in
6the course of an investigation of a drug offense. The State's
7Attorney may grant this verbal approval only after determining
8that reasonable cause exists to believe that a drug offense
9will be committed by a specified individual or individuals
10within a designated period of time.
11    (2) Request for approval. To invoke the exception contained
12in this subsection (q), a law enforcement officer shall make a
13written or verbal request for approval to the appropriate
14State's Attorney. This request for approval shall include
15whatever information is deemed necessary by the State's
16Attorney but shall include, at a minimum, the following
17information about each specified individual whom the law
18enforcement officer believes will commit a drug offense:
19        (A) his or her full or partial name, nickname or alias;
20        (B) a physical description; or
21        (C) failing either (A) or (B) of this paragraph (2),
22    any other supporting information known to the law
23    enforcement officer at the time of the request that gives
24    rise to reasonable cause to believe the individual will
25    commit a drug offense.
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1the State's Attorney under this subsection (q) shall be limited
2to:
3        (A) a recording or interception conducted by a
4    specified law enforcement officer or person acting at the
5    direction of a law enforcement officer;
6        (B) recording or intercepting conversations with the
7    individuals specified in the request for approval,
8    provided that the verbal approval shall be deemed to
9    include the recording or intercepting of conversations
10    with other individuals, unknown to the law enforcement
11    officer at the time of the request for approval, who are
12    acting in conjunction with or as co-conspirators with the
13    individuals specified in the request for approval in the
14    commission of a drug offense;
15        (C) a reasonable period of time but in no event longer
16    than 24 consecutive hours.
17    (4) Admissibility of evidence. No part of the contents of
18any wire, electronic, or oral communication that has been
19recorded or intercepted as a result of this exception may be
20received in evidence in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding
21in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer,
22agency, regulatory body, legislative committee, or other
23authority of this State, or a political subdivision of the
24State, other than in a prosecution of:
25        (A) a drug offense;
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1    of the investigation of a drug offense for which verbal
2    approval was given to record or intercept a conversation
3    under this subsection (q); or
4        (C) any other forcible felony committed while the
5    recording or interception was approved in accordance with
6    this Section (q), but for this specific category of
7    prosecutions, only if the law enforcement officer or person
8    acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer who
9    has consented to the conversation being intercepted or
10    recorded suffers great bodily injury or is killed during
11    the commission of the charged forcible felony.
12    (5) Compliance with the provisions of this subsection is a
13prerequisite to the admissibility in evidence of any part of
14the contents of any wire, electronic or oral communication that
15has been intercepted as a result of this exception, but nothing
16in this subsection shall be deemed to prevent a court from
17otherwise excluding the evidence on any other ground, nor shall
18anything in this subsection be deemed to prevent a court from
19independently reviewing the admissibility of the evidence for
20compliance with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
21or with Article I, Section 6 of the Illinois Constitution.
22    (6) Use of recordings or intercepts unrelated to drug
23offenses. Whenever any wire, electronic, or oral communication
24has been recorded or intercepted as a result of this exception
25that is not related to a drug offense or a forcible felony
26committed in the course of a drug offense, no part of the

 

 

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1contents of the communication and evidence derived from the
2communication may be received in evidence in any trial,
3hearing, or other proceeding in or before any court, grand
4jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body,
5legislative committee, or other authority of this State, or a
6political subdivision of the State, nor may it be publicly
7disclosed in any way.
8    (7) Definitions. For the purposes of this subsection (q)
9only:
10        "Drug offense" includes and is limited to a felony
11    violation of one of the following: (A) the Illinois
12    Controlled Substances Act, (B) the Cannabis Control Act,
13    and (C) the Methamphetamine Control and Community
14    Protection Act.
15        "Forcible felony" includes and is limited to those
16    offenses contained in Section 2-8 of the Criminal Code of
17    1961 as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
18    97th General Assembly, and only as those offenses have been
19    defined by law or judicial interpretation as of that date.
20        "State's Attorney" includes and is limited to the
21    State's Attorney or an assistant State's Attorney
22    designated by the State's Attorney to provide verbal
23    approval to record or intercept conversations under this
24    subsection (q).
25    (8) Sunset. This subsection (q) is inoperative on and after
26January 1, 2015. No conversations intercepted pursuant to this

 

 

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1subsection (q), while operative, shall be inadmissible in a
2court of law by virtue of the inoperability of this subsection
3(q) on January 1, 2015.
4(Source: P.A. 96-425, eff. 8-13-09; 96-547, eff. 1-1-10;
596-643, eff. 1-1-10; 96-670, eff. 8-25-09; 96-1000, eff.
67-2-10; 96-1425, eff. 1-1-11; 96-1464, eff. 8-20-10; 97-333,
7eff. 8-12-11; 97-846, eff. 1-1-13; 97-897, eff. 1-1-13; revised
88-23-12.)".