HB4609 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB102 24100 RLC 33325 b

102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB4609

Introduced 1/21/2022, by Rep. Rita Mayfield

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 2605/2605-620 new

Amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that subject to appropriation, the Illinois State Police shall procure a cloud-based mobile software system for the supervision of persons in pretrial detention or serving a term of probation, conditional discharge, parole, or mandatory supervised release. The system shall be available to any county or State agency, including the Prisoner Review Board, clerks of the circuit court, public defenders, and State's Attorneys. Establishes the minimum requirements of the software system. Provides that the Illinois State Police, with assistance from the vendor, shall provide the software system without charge to any local or State agency that wishes to use the software to manage supervising persons interacting with its agency. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall permit persons on registries under its administrative control to use the smartphone application to submit required information instead of appearing in person at local law enforcement agency offices for regular appearances. Provides that no fees shall be assessed on persons for the use of the software system. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section 2605-620 as follows:

(20 ILCS 2605/2605-620 new)

Sec. 2605-620. Illinois State Police; cloud-based mobile software system.

(a) Subject to appropriation, the Illinois State Police shall procure a cloud-based mobile software system for the supervision of persons in pretrial detention or serving a term of probation, conditional discharge, parole, or mandatory supervised release. The system shall be available to any county or State agency, including the Prisoner Review Board, clerks of the circuit court, public defenders, and State's Attorneys.

(b) The software system must at a minimum:

(1) be available for any State or county agency that supervises persons in pretrial detention or serving a term of probation, conditional discharge, parole, or mandatory supervised release. The system shall be available for unlimited use for an unlimited number of participants in pretrial detention, serving terms of probation, conditional discharge, parole, mandatory supervised release, participating in treatment court, specialty court, a juvenile program, or restorative justice program, or required to register in an offender registry;

(2) utilize an application on the participant's smartphone and provide a cloud-based platform to the supervising agency that requires no hardware or software integration;

(3) provide location services, including inclusion zones, exclusion zones, curfews, and immediate location at the direction of the agency without action required of the participant and without the use of body attached hardware;

(4) provide biometric identification of the participant;

(5) provide a directory of local services available to the participant;

(6) provide in-app chat and video calls with transcription;

(7) provide a scoring mechanism to measure compliance with supervision orders;

(8) provide written questionnaires to improve efficiency of supervision; and

(9) provide a dashboard to identify non-compliance on specific issues across population groups.

(c) The vendor selected to host, manage, and update the smartphone application software system shall also provide support staff to provide on-site training and answer customer inquiries from persons or agency staff on an unlimited basis.

(d) All non-personal data collected by the software system shall be available for use by other State agencies for data collection and analysis purposes to help assess the efficacy and impact of criminal justice laws and practices, especially pretrial services, including, but not limited to, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and the Sentencing Policy Advisory Council. All non-personal data collected by the software system in a specific county shall be available for use by any county agency for data collection and analysis purposes.

(e) The Illinois State Police, with assistance from the vendor, shall provide the software system without charge to any local or State agency that wishes to use the software to manage supervising persons interacting with its agency.

(f) The Illinois State Police shall permit persons on offender registries under its administrative control to use the smartphone application to submit required information instead of appearing in person at local law enforcement agency offices for regular appearances.

(g) All funds or expenses saved by local judicial or law enforcement agencies by the use of the Illinois State Police software system shall be retained by the local judicial or law enforcement agency.

(h) No fees shall be assessed on persons for the use of the software system.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.