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| | 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB3509 Introduced 2/16/2018, by Sen. Bill Cunningham SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. In provisions prohibiting a municipality from requiring police officers to issue a specific number of citations within a designated period of time, removes an exclusion for municipalities with their own independent inspector general and law enforcement review authority.
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| | | FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY | |
| | A BILL FOR |
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| | SB3509 | | LRB100 20772 AWJ 36260 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 11-1-12 as follows:
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| 6 | | (65 ILCS 5/11-1-12) |
| 7 | | Sec. 11-1-12. Quotas prohibited. A municipality may not |
| 8 | | require a police officer to issue a specific number of |
| 9 | | citations within a designated period of time. This prohibition |
| 10 | | shall not affect the conditions of any federal or State grants |
| 11 | | or funds awarded to the municipality and used to fund traffic |
| 12 | | enforcement programs. |
| 13 | | A municipality may not, for purposes of evaluating a police |
| 14 | | officer's job performance, compare the number of
citations |
| 15 | | issued by the police officer
to the number of citations issued |
| 16 | | by any other police officer who has similar job duties. Nothing |
| 17 | | in this Section shall prohibit a municipality from evaluating a |
| 18 | | police officer based on the police officer's points of contact. |
| 19 | | For the purposes of this Section, "points of contact" means any |
| 20 | | quantifiable contact made in the furtherance of the police |
| 21 | | officer's duties, including, but not limited to, the number of |
| 22 | | traffic stops completed, arrests, written warnings, and crime |
| 23 | | prevention measures. Points of contact shall not include either |