Public Act 096-0303
 		





HB3716 Enrolled
LRB096 11365 RLJ 21824 b






    AN ACT concerning State government.

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

 
    Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the
Civil 
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended  by changing Section 
2605-580 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 2605/2605-580)
    Sec. 2605-580. Pilot program; Cyber Gang Internet Gang 
Crime Units.
    (a) The Department of State Police shall establish a pilot 
program from moneys available
under which Cyber Gang Internet 
Gang Crime Units shall be created in the Lake County 
Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the Cook County Sheriff's 
Office, the City of Danville Police Department, and the Village 
of Round Lake Heights Police Department.  Under the pilot 
program for the operation of Cyber Gang Internet Gang Crime 
Units, 50% shall be allocated to the Lake County Metropolitan 
Enforcement Group and 50% 40% shall be allocated to the Cook 
County Sheriff's Office, 30% shall be allocated to the City of 
Danville Police Department, and 30% shall be allocated to the 
Village of Round Lake Heights Police Department.
    (b) Under the pilot program, the Cyber Gang Internet Gang 
Crime Units
shall investigate criminal activities of organized 
gangs that involve the use of the Internet.  For the duration of 
the pilot program and in accordance with protocols for 
inter-jurisdictional cooperation established by the Department 
of State Police, peace officers in each Cyber Gang Internet 
Gang Crime Unit shall, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, have extra-jurisdictional authority  to conduct 
investigations and make arrests  anywhere in the State of 
Illinois regarding  criminal activities of organized gangs that 
involve the use of the Internet.
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any 
criminal statute of this State authorizes the distribution of 
all or a portion of the  proceeds realized from property seized 
or forfeited under that statute to participating law 
enforcement agencies or the delivery of property forfeited and

seized under that statute to participating law enforcement 
agencies,  a law enforcement agency in which  a Cyber Gang an 
Internet Gang Crime Unit has been created is eligible to 
receive such a distribution or delivery if that law enforcement 
agency participated through its Internet Gang Crime Unit, 
regardless of the jurisdiction in which the seizure or 
forfeiture occurs.
    (d) The Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the 
Cook County Sheriff's Office, the City of Danville Police 
Department, and the Village of Round Lake Heights Police 
Department shall report to the Department of State Police on a 
quarterly basis on the activities of their Cyber Gang Internet 
Gang Crime  Units in accordance with reporting guidelines 
established by the Department of State Police.  The Department 
of State Police shall file a consolidated report on a quarterly 
basis with the General Assembly and the Governor. The 
Department's
consolidated report may also contain any 
evaluations or recommendations that the Department deems 
appropriate.
    (e)  The pilot program shall terminate on July 1, 2012 2010.
    (f) As used in this Section,  "organized gang" has the 
meaning ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang 
Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.

(Source: P.A. 95-423, eff. 8-24-07.)
 

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