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92_SB1160

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to criminal investigations.

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

 4        Section  5.  The  Criminal  Code  of  1961  is amended by
 5    changing Section 14-3 as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 5/14-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 14-3)
 7        Sec. 14-3.  Exemptions.  The following  activities  shall
 8    be exempt from the provisions of this Article:
 9        (a)  Listening   to   radio,   wireless   and  television
10    communications of any sort where the same are publicly made;
11        (b)  Hearing conversation when heard by employees of  any
12    common  carrier  by  wire  incidental to the normal course of
13    their employment in the operation, maintenance or  repair  of
14    the  equipment  of  such common carrier by wire so long as no
15    information obtained thereby  is  used  or  divulged  by  the
16    hearer;
17        (c)  Any  broadcast  by  radio,  television  or otherwise
18    whether it be a broadcast or  recorded  for  the  purpose  of
19    later  broadcasts  of  any  function  where  the public is in
20    attendance and the conversations are overheard incidental  to
21    the  main  purpose  for  which such broadcasts are then being
22    made;
23        (d)  Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
24    any emergency communication made  in  the  normal  course  of
25    operations  by  any  federal,  state or local law enforcement
26    agency  or  institutions  dealing  in   emergency   services,
27    including,  but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, ambulance
28    services,  fire  fighting  agencies,  any   public   utility,
29    emergency  repair facility, civilian defense establishment or
30    military installation;
31        (e)  Recording the proceedings of any meeting required to
 
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 1    be open by the Open Meetings Act, as amended;
 2        (f)  Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
 3    incoming telephone calls of phone lines  publicly  listed  or
 4    advertised   as   consumer  "hotlines"  by  manufacturers  or
 5    retailers of food and drug products.  Such recordings must be
 6    destroyed, erased or turned over  to  local  law  enforcement
 7    authorities  within  24 hours from the time of such recording
 8    and shall not be otherwise disseminated.  Failure on the part
 9    of the individual or business operating any such recording or
10    listening device to comply  with  the  requirements  of  this
11    subsection  shall  eliminate  any  civil or criminal immunity
12    conferred upon that individual or business by  the  operation
13    of this Section;
14        (g)  With  prior  notification to the State's Attorney of
15    the county in which it is to occur,  recording  or  listening
16    with  the  aid  of any device to any conversation where a law
17    enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of
18    law enforcement, is a  party  to  the  conversation  and  has
19    consented   to   it   being  intercepted  or  recorded  under
20    circumstances where the use of the device  is  necessary  for
21    the  protection  of the law enforcement officer or any person
22    acting at the direction of law enforcement, in the course  of
23    an  investigation of a forcible felony, a felony violation of
24    the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, a felony violation of
25    the Cannabis Control Act,  or  any  "streetgang  related"  or
26    "gang-related"  felony  as  those  terms  are  defined in the
27    Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus  Prevention  Act.   Any
28    recording or evidence derived as the result of this exemption
29    shall  be  inadmissible in any proceeding, criminal, civil or
30    administrative, except (i) where a party to the  conversation
31    suffers   great  bodily  injury  or  is  killed  during  such
32    conversation, or (ii) when used as direct  impeachment  of  a
33    witness  concerning  matters contained in the interception or
34    recording.  The Director of the Department  of  State  Police
 
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 1    shall  issue  regulations as are necessary concerning the use
 2    of  devices,  retention  of  tape  recordings,  and   reports
 3    regarding their use;
 4        (h)  Recordings   made   simultaneously   with   a  video
 5    recording of an oral conversation between  a  peace  officer,
 6    who  has  identified  his or her office, and a person stopped
 7    for an investigation of an offense under the Illinois Vehicle
 8    Code;
 9        (h-5)  Recordings  made  simultaneously  with   a   video
10    recording  of  an  oral conversation between a peace officer,
11    who  has  identified  his  or  her  office,  and   a   person
12    interviewed as a suspect or witness in a case that may result
13    in  a  defendant  being  charged  with  a  Class  X felony as
14    provided in Section 108C-5 of the Code of Criminal  Procedure
15    of 1963;
16        (i)  Recording  of  a  conversation  made  by  or  at the
17    request of a person, not a law enforcement officer  or  agent
18    of  a  law  enforcement  officer,  who  is  a  party  to  the
19    conversation,  under  reasonable suspicion that another party
20    to the conversation is committing, is about to commit, or has
21    committed a criminal offense against the person or  a  member
22    of  his  or  her  immediate household, and there is reason to
23    believe that evidence of the criminal offense may be obtained
24    by the recording; and
25        (j)  The use of a telephone monitoring device  by  either
26    (1)  a  corporation  or  other  business  entity  engaged  in
27    marketing  or  opinion research or (2) a corporation or other
28    business entity engaged in telephone solicitation, as defined
29    in this subsection, to record or  listen  to  oral  telephone
30    solicitation  conversations  or marketing or opinion research
31    conversations by an employee  of  the  corporation  or  other
32    business entity when:
33             (i)  the  monitoring  is  used  for  the  purpose of
34        service quality control of marketing or opinion  research
 
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 1        or  telephone  solicitation, the education or training of
 2        employees or contractors engaged in marketing or  opinion
 3        research  or telephone solicitation, or internal research
 4        related to marketing or  opinion  research  or  telephone
 5        solicitation; and
 6             (ii)  the  monitoring is used with the consent of at
 7        least one person who is an active party to the  marketing
 8        or    opinion    research   conversation   or   telephone
 9        solicitation conversation being monitored.
10        No communication or conversation or any part, portion, or
11    aspect of the communication or conversation  made,  acquired,
12    or  obtained,  directly  or  indirectly, under this exemption
13    (j), may be, directly or indirectly,  furnished  to  any  law
14    enforcement  officer,  agency, or official for any purpose or
15    used in any inquiry or investigation, or  used,  directly  or
16    indirectly,   in   any  administrative,  judicial,  or  other
17    proceeding, or divulged to any third party.
18        When recording or listening authorized by this subsection
19    (j) on telephone lines used for marketing or opinion research
20    or telephone solicitation purposes results  in  recording  or
21    listening to a conversation that does not relate to marketing
22    or  opinion  research  or  telephone solicitation; the person
23    recording or listening shall,  immediately  upon  determining
24    that the conversation does not relate to marketing or opinion
25    research  or  telephone solicitation, terminate the recording
26    or listening and destroy any such recording  as  soon  as  is
27    practicable.
28        Business  entities  that  use  a  telephone monitoring or
29    telephone recording system pursuant  to  this  exemption  (j)
30    shall  provide  current and prospective employees with notice
31    that the monitoring or recordings may occur during the course
32    of their employment.   The  notice  shall  include  prominent
33    signage notification within the workplace.
34        Business  entities  that  use  a  telephone monitoring or
 
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 1    telephone recording system pursuant  to  this  exemption  (j)
 2    shall  provide  their  employees  or  agents  with  access to
 3    personal-only telephone lines which may  be  pay  telephones,
 4    that  are  not  subject  to telephone monitoring or telephone
 5    recording.
 6        For the  purposes  of  this  subsection  (j),  "telephone
 7    solicitation"  means  a  communication  through  the use of a
 8    telephone by live operators:
 9             (i)  soliciting the sale of goods or services;
10             (ii)  receiving orders for  the  sale  of  goods  or
11        services;
12             (iii)  assisting in the use of goods or services; or
13             (iv)  engaging  in the solicitation, administration,
14        or collection of bank or retail credit accounts.
15        For the purposes of this subsection  (j),  "marketing  or
16    opinion  research"  means  a  marketing  or  opinion research
17    interview conducted by a live telephone  interviewer  engaged
18    by  a  corporation  or  other business entity whose principal
19    business is the design, conduct, and analysis  of  polls  and
20    surveys  measuring  the opinions, attitudes, and responses of
21    respondents  toward  products  and  services,  or  social  or
22    political issues, or both.
23    (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

24        Section 10. The Code of Criminal  Procedure  of  1963  is
25    amended by adding Article 108C as follows:

26        (725 ILCS 5/Art. 108C heading new)
27               ARTICLE 108C. VIDEOTAPING OF INTERVIEWS

28        (725 ILCS 5/108C-5 new)
29        Sec.  108C-5. Videotaping of interviews required.  During
30    an investigation of a case that may  result  in  a  defendant
31    being  charged with a Class X felony, every interview between
 
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 1    a peace officer and a suspect or witness in that case must be
 2    videotaped.  The  videotaping  must  begin  with  the   peace
 3    officer's statement to the suspect or witness reciting all of
 4    the   suspect's   or   witness's   constitutionally  required
 5    warnings,  which  must  be  followed  by  the  suspect's   or
 6    witness's  waiver of each of his or her constitutional rights
 7    as specified in those warnings.  The entire interview must be
 8    videotaped.

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

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