98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB1609

 

Introduced 2/13/2013, by Sen. David Koehler

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/12-9  from Ch. 38, par. 12-9

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Includes in the offense of threatening a public official threatening a human service provider. Defines "human service provider".


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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 12-9 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/12-9)  (from Ch. 38, par. 12-9)
7    Sec. 12-9. Threatening public officials; human service
8providers.
9    (a) A person commits threatening a public official or human
10service provider when:
11        (1) that person knowingly delivers or conveys,
12    directly or indirectly, to a public official or human
13    service provider by any means a communication:
14            (i) containing a threat that would place the public
15        official or human service provider or a member of his
16        or her immediate family in reasonable apprehension of
17        immediate or future bodily harm, sexual assault,
18        confinement, or restraint; or
19            (ii) containing a threat that would place the
20        public official or human service provider or a member
21        of his or her immediate family in reasonable
22        apprehension that damage will occur to property in the
23        custody, care, or control of the public official or his

 

 

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1        or her immediate family; and
2        (2) the threat was conveyed because of the performance
3    or nonperformance of some public duty, because of hostility
4    of the person making the threat toward the status or
5    position of the public official or toward the human service
6    provider acting in his or her authorized capacity, or
7    because of any other factor related to the official's
8    public existence.
9    (a-5) For purposes of a threat to a sworn law enforcement
10officer, the threat must contain specific facts indicative of a
11unique threat to the person, family or property of the officer
12and not a generalized threat of harm.
13    (a-6) For purposes of a threat to a social worker,
14caseworker, or investigator, or human service provider, the
15threat must contain specific facts indicative of a unique
16threat to the person, family or property of the individual and
17not a generalized threat of harm.
18    (b) For purposes of this Section:
19        (1) "Public official" means a person who is elected to
20    office in accordance with a statute or who is appointed to
21    an office which is established, and the qualifications and
22    duties of which are prescribed, by statute, to discharge a
23    public duty for the State or any of its political
24    subdivisions or in the case of an elective office any
25    person who has filed the required documents for nomination
26    or election to such office. "Public official" includes a

 

 

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1    duly appointed assistant State's Attorney, assistant
2    Attorney General, or Appellate Prosecutor; a sworn law
3    enforcement or peace officer; a social worker, caseworker,
4    or investigator employed by the Department of Healthcare
5    and Family Services, the Department of Human Services, or
6    the Department of Children and Family Services.
7        (1.5) "Human service provider" means a social worker,
8    case worker, or investigator employed by an agency or
9    organization providing social work, case work, or
10    investigative services under a contract with or a grant
11    from the State of Illinois.
12        (2) "Immediate family" means a public official's
13    spouse or child or children.
14    (c) Threatening a public official or human service provider
15is a Class 3 felony for a first offense and a Class 2 felony for
16a second or subsequent offense.
17(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-1079, eff. 1-1-13.)