98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB4215

 

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 officer-worn 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 (i) an officer assigned a patrol vehicle is conducting an enforcement stop; or (ii) patrol vehicle emergency lights are activated or would otherwise be activated if not for the need to conceal the presence of law enforcement. Also exempts from an eavesdropping violation recordings made simultaneously with the use of an officer-worn 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 the officer has reasonable suspicion that a person in the vicinity has committed, is committing, or is about to commit an offense.


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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 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
17it be a broadcast or recorded for the purpose of later
18broadcasts of any function where the public is in attendance
19and the conversations are overheard incidental to the main
20purpose for which such broadcasts are then being made;
21    (d) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
22any emergency communication made in the normal course of
23operations by any federal, state or local law enforcement

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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1any device to any conversation where a law enforcement officer,
2or any person acting at the direction of law enforcement, is a
3party to the conversation and has consented to it being
4intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of
5any offense defined in Article 29D of this Code. In all such
6cases, an application for an order approving the previous or
7continuing use of an eavesdropping device must be made within
848 hours of the commencement of such use. In the absence of
9such an order, or upon its denial, any continuing use shall
10immediately terminate. The Director of State Police shall issue
11rules as are necessary concerning the use of devices, retention
12of tape recordings, and reports regarding their use.
13    Any recording or evidence obtained or derived in the course
14of an investigation of any offense defined in Article 29D of
15this Code shall, upon motion of the State's Attorney or
16Attorney General prosecuting any violation of Article 29D, be
17reviewed in camera with notice to all parties present by the
18court presiding over the criminal case, and, if ruled by the
19court to be relevant and otherwise admissible, it shall be
20admissible at the trial of the criminal case.
21    This subsection (g-5) is inoperative on and after January
221, 2005. No conversations recorded or monitored pursuant to
23this subsection (g-5) shall be inadmissible in a court of law
24by virtue of the repeal of this subsection (g-5) on January 1,
252005;
26    (g-6) With approval of the State's Attorney of the county

 

 

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1in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the aid of
2any device to any conversation where a law enforcement officer,
3or any person acting at the direction of law enforcement, is a
4party to the conversation and has consented to it being
5intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of
6involuntary servitude, involuntary sexual servitude of a
7minor, trafficking in persons, child pornography, aggravated
8child pornography, indecent solicitation of a child, child
9abduction, luring of a minor, sexual exploitation of a child,
10predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated
11criminal sexual abuse in which the victim of the offense was at
12the time of the commission of the offense under 18 years of
13age, criminal sexual abuse by force or threat of force in which
14the victim of the offense was at the time of the commission of
15the offense under 18 years of age, or aggravated criminal
16sexual assault in which the victim of the offense was at the
17time of the commission of the offense under 18 years of age. In
18all such cases, an application for an order approving the
19previous or continuing use of an eavesdropping device must be
20made within 48 hours of the commencement of such use. In the
21absence of such an order, or upon its denial, any continuing
22use shall immediately terminate. The Director of State Police
23shall issue rules as are necessary concerning the use of
24devices, retention of recordings, and reports regarding their
25use. Any recording or evidence obtained or derived in the
26course of an investigation of involuntary servitude,

 

 

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1involuntary sexual servitude of a minor, trafficking in
2persons, child pornography, aggravated child pornography,
3indecent solicitation of a child, child abduction, luring of a
4minor, sexual exploitation of a child, predatory criminal
5sexual assault of a child, aggravated criminal sexual abuse in
6which the victim of the offense was at the time of the
7commission of the offense under 18 years of age, criminal
8sexual abuse by force or threat of force in which the victim of
9the offense was at the time of the commission of the offense
10under 18 years of age, or aggravated criminal sexual assault in
11which the victim of the offense was at the time of the
12commission of the offense under 18 years of age shall, upon
13motion of the State's Attorney or Attorney General prosecuting
14any case involving involuntary servitude, involuntary sexual
15servitude of a minor, trafficking in persons, child
16pornography, aggravated child pornography, indecent
17solicitation of a child, child abduction, luring of a minor,
18sexual exploitation of a child, predatory criminal sexual
19assault of a child, aggravated criminal sexual abuse in which
20the victim of the offense was at the time of the commission of
21the offense under 18 years of age, criminal sexual abuse by
22force or threat of force in which the victim of the offense was
23at the time of the commission of the offense under 18 years of
24age, or aggravated criminal sexual assault in which the victim
25of the offense was at the time of the commission of the offense
26under 18 years of age, be reviewed in camera with notice to all

 

 

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1parties present by the court presiding over the criminal case,
2and, if ruled by the court to be relevant and otherwise
3admissible, it shall be admissible at the trial of the criminal
4case. Absent such a ruling, any such recording or evidence
5shall not be admissible at the trial of the criminal case;
6    (h) Recordings made simultaneously with the use of an
7in-car video camera or officer-worn video camera recording of
8an oral conversation between a uniformed peace officer, who has
9identified his or her office, and a person in the presence of
10the peace officer whenever (i) an officer assigned a patrol
11vehicle is conducting an enforcement stop; or (ii) patrol
12vehicle emergency lights are activated or would otherwise be
13activated if not for the need to conceal the presence of law
14enforcement.
15    For the purposes of this subsection (h), "enforcement stop"
16means an action by a law enforcement officer in relation to
17enforcement and investigation duties, including but not
18limited to, traffic stops, pedestrian stops, abandoned vehicle
19contacts, motorist assists, commercial motor vehicle stops,
20roadside safety checks, requests for identification, or
21responses to requests for emergency assistance;
22    (h-1) Recordings made simultaneously with the use of an
23officer-worn video camera recording of an oral conversation
24between a uniformed peace officer, who has identified his or
25her office, and a person in the presence of the peace officer,
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1the vicinity has committed, is committing, or is about to
2commit an offense.
3    (h-5) Recordings of utterances made by a person while in
4the presence of a uniformed peace officer and while an occupant
5of a police vehicle including, but not limited to, (i)
6recordings made simultaneously with the use of an in-car video
7camera and (ii) recordings made in the presence of the peace
8officer utilizing video or audio systems, or both, authorized
9by the law enforcement agency;
10    (h-10) Recordings made simultaneously with a video camera
11recording during the use of a taser or similar weapon or device
12by a peace officer if the weapon or device is equipped with
13such camera;
14    (h-15) Recordings made under subsection (h), (h-5), or
15(h-10) shall be retained by the law enforcement agency that
16employs the peace officer who made the recordings for a storage
17period of 90 days, unless the recordings are made as a part of
18an arrest or the recordings are deemed evidence in any
19criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding and then the
20recordings must only be destroyed upon a final disposition and
21an order from the court. Under no circumstances shall any
22recording be altered or erased prior to the expiration of the
23designated storage period. Upon completion of the storage
24period, the recording medium may be erased and reissued for
25operational use;
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1of a person, not a law enforcement officer or agent of a law
2enforcement officer, who is a party to the conversation, under
3reasonable suspicion that another party to the conversation is
4committing, is about to commit, or has committed a criminal
5offense against the person or a member of his or her immediate
6household, and there is reason to believe that evidence of the
7criminal offense may be obtained by the recording;
8    (j) The use of a telephone monitoring device by either (1)
9a corporation or other business entity engaged in marketing or
10opinion research or (2) a corporation or other business entity
11engaged in telephone solicitation, as defined in this
12subsection, to record or listen to oral telephone solicitation
13conversations or marketing or opinion research conversations
14by an employee of the corporation or other business entity
15when:
16        (i) the monitoring is used for the purpose of service
17    quality control of marketing or opinion research or
18    telephone solicitation, the education or training of
19    employees or contractors engaged in marketing or opinion
20    research or telephone solicitation, or internal research
21    related to marketing or opinion research or telephone
22    solicitation; and
23        (ii) the monitoring is used with the consent of at
24    least one person who is an active party to the marketing or
25    opinion research conversation or telephone solicitation
26    conversation being monitored.

 

 

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1    No communication or conversation or any part, portion, or
2aspect of the communication or conversation made, acquired, or
3obtained, directly or indirectly, under this exemption (j), may
4be, directly or indirectly, furnished to any law enforcement
5officer, agency, or official for any purpose or used in any
6inquiry or investigation, or used, directly or indirectly, in
7any administrative, judicial, or other proceeding, or divulged
8to any third party.
9    When recording or listening authorized by this subsection
10(j) on telephone lines used for marketing or opinion research
11or telephone solicitation purposes results in recording or
12listening to a conversation that does not relate to marketing
13or opinion research or telephone solicitation; the person
14recording or listening shall, immediately upon determining
15that the conversation does not relate to marketing or opinion
16research or telephone solicitation, terminate the recording or
17listening and destroy any such recording as soon as is
18practicable.
19    Business entities that use a telephone monitoring or
20telephone recording system pursuant to this exemption (j) shall
21provide current and prospective employees with notice that the
22monitoring or recordings may occur during the course of their
23employment. The notice shall include prominent signage
24notification within the workplace.
25    Business entities that use a telephone monitoring or
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1provide their employees or agents with access to personal-only
2telephone lines which may be pay telephones, that are not
3subject to telephone monitoring or telephone recording.
4    For the purposes of this subsection (j), "telephone
5solicitation" means a communication through the use of a
6telephone by live operators:
7        (i) soliciting the sale of goods or services;
8        (ii) receiving orders for the sale of goods or
9    services;
10        (iii) assisting in the use of goods or services; or
11        (iv) engaging in the solicitation, administration, or
12    collection of bank or retail credit accounts.
13    For the purposes of this subsection (j), "marketing or
14opinion research" means a marketing or opinion research
15interview conducted by a live telephone interviewer engaged by
16a corporation or other business entity whose principal business
17is the design, conduct, and analysis of polls and surveys
18measuring the opinions, attitudes, and responses of
19respondents toward products and services, or social or
20political issues, or both;
21    (k) Electronic recordings, including but not limited to, a
22motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio
23recording, made of a custodial interrogation of an individual
24at a police station or other place of detention by a law
25enforcement officer under Section 5-401.5 of the Juvenile Court
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1Procedure of 1963;
2    (l) Recording the interview or statement of any person when
3the person knows that the interview is being conducted by a law
4enforcement officer or prosecutor and the interview takes place
5at a police station that is currently participating in the
6Custodial Interview Pilot Program established under the
7Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act;
8    (m) An electronic recording, including but not limited to,
9a motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio
10recording, made of the interior of a school bus while the
11school bus is being used in the transportation of students to
12and from school and school-sponsored activities, when the
13school board has adopted a policy authorizing such recording,
14notice of such recording policy is included in student
15handbooks and other documents including the policies of the
16school, notice of the policy regarding recording is provided to
17parents of students, and notice of such recording is clearly
18posted on the door of and inside the school bus.
19    Recordings made pursuant to this subsection (m) shall be
20confidential records and may only be used by school officials
21(or their designees) and law enforcement personnel for
22investigations, school disciplinary actions and hearings,
23proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and criminal
24prosecutions, related to incidents occurring in or around the
25school bus;
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1microphone placed by a person under the authority of a law
2enforcement agency inside a bait car surveillance vehicle while
3simultaneously capturing a photographic or video image;
4    (o) The use of an eavesdropping camera or audio device
5during an ongoing hostage or barricade situation by a law
6enforcement officer or individual acting on behalf of a law
7enforcement officer when the use of such device is necessary to
8protect the safety of the general public, hostages, or law
9enforcement officers or anyone acting on their behalf;
10    (p) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
11incoming telephone calls of phone lines publicly listed or
12advertised as the "CPS Violence Prevention Hotline", but only
13where the notice of recording is given at the beginning of each
14call as required by Section 34-21.8 of the School Code. The
15recordings may be retained only by the Chicago Police
16Department or other law enforcement authorities, and shall not
17be otherwise retained or disseminated; and
18    (q)(1) With prior request to and verbal approval of the
19State's Attorney of the county in which the conversation is
20anticipated to occur, recording or listening with the aid of an
21eavesdropping device to a conversation in which a law
22enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a
23law enforcement officer, is a party to the conversation and has
24consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in
25the course of an investigation of a drug offense. The State's
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1that reasonable cause exists to believe that a drug offense
2will be committed by a specified individual or individuals
3within a designated period of time.
4    (2) Request for approval. To invoke the exception contained
5in this subsection (q), a law enforcement officer shall make a
6written or verbal request for approval to the appropriate
7State's Attorney. This request for approval shall include
8whatever information is deemed necessary by the State's
9Attorney but shall include, at a minimum, the following
10information about each specified individual whom the law
11enforcement officer believes will commit a drug offense:
12        (A) his or her full or partial name, nickname or alias;
13        (B) a physical description; or
14        (C) failing either (A) or (B) of this paragraph (2),
15    any other supporting information known to the law
16    enforcement officer at the time of the request that gives
17    rise to reasonable cause to believe the individual will
18    commit a drug offense.
19    (3) Limitations on verbal approval. Each verbal approval by
20the State's Attorney under this subsection (q) shall be limited
21to:
22        (A) a recording or interception conducted by a
23    specified law enforcement officer or person acting at the
24    direction of a law enforcement officer;
25        (B) recording or intercepting conversations with the
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1    provided that the verbal approval shall be deemed to
2    include the recording or intercepting of conversations
3    with other individuals, unknown to the law enforcement
4    officer at the time of the request for approval, who are
5    acting in conjunction with or as co-conspirators with the
6    individuals specified in the request for approval in the
7    commission of a drug offense;
8        (C) a reasonable period of time but in no event longer
9    than 24 consecutive hours.
10    (4) Admissibility of evidence. No part of the contents of
11any wire, electronic, or oral communication that has been
12recorded or intercepted as a result of this exception may be
13received in evidence in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding
14in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer,
15agency, regulatory body, legislative committee, or other
16authority of this State, or a political subdivision of the
17State, other than in a prosecution of:
18        (A) a drug offense;
19        (B) a forcible felony committed directly in the course
20    of the investigation of a drug offense for which verbal
21    approval was given to record or intercept a conversation
22    under this subsection (q); or
23        (C) any other forcible felony committed while the
24    recording or interception was approved in accordance with
25    this Section (q), but for this specific category of
26    prosecutions, only if the law enforcement officer or person

 

 

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1    acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer who
2    has consented to the conversation being intercepted or
3    recorded suffers great bodily injury or is killed during
4    the commission of the charged forcible felony.
5    (5) Compliance with the provisions of this subsection is a
6prerequisite to the admissibility in evidence of any part of
7the contents of any wire, electronic or oral communication that
8has been intercepted as a result of this exception, but nothing
9in this subsection shall be deemed to prevent a court from
10otherwise excluding the evidence on any other ground, nor shall
11anything in this subsection be deemed to prevent a court from
12independently reviewing the admissibility of the evidence for
13compliance with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
14or with Article I, Section 6 of the Illinois Constitution.
15    (6) Use of recordings or intercepts unrelated to drug
16offenses. Whenever any wire, electronic, or oral communication
17has been recorded or intercepted as a result of this exception
18that is not related to a drug offense or a forcible felony
19committed in the course of a drug offense, no part of the
20contents of the communication and evidence derived from the
21communication may be received in evidence in any trial,
22hearing, or other proceeding in or before any court, grand
23jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body,
24legislative committee, or other authority of this State, or a
25political subdivision of the State, nor may it be publicly
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1    (7) Definitions. For the purposes of this subsection (q)
2only:
3        "Drug offense" includes and is limited to a felony
4    violation of one of the following: (A) the Illinois
5    Controlled Substances Act, (B) the Cannabis Control Act,
6    and (C) the Methamphetamine Control and Community
7    Protection Act.
8        "Forcible felony" includes and is limited to those
9    offenses contained in Section 2-8 of the Criminal Code of
10    1961 as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
11    97th General Assembly, and only as those offenses have been
12    defined by law or judicial interpretation as of that date.
13        "State's Attorney" includes and is limited to the
14    State's Attorney or an assistant State's Attorney
15    designated by the State's Attorney to provide verbal
16    approval to record or intercept conversations under this
17    subsection (q).
18    (8) Sunset. This subsection (q) is inoperative on and after
19January 1, 2015. No conversations intercepted pursuant to this
20subsection (q), while operative, shall be inadmissible in a
21court of law by virtue of the inoperability of this subsection
22(q) on January 1, 2015.
23(Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 97-846, eff. 1-1-13;
2497-897, eff. 1-1-13; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)