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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB0265 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026. |
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | SB0265 | | LRB104 05953 RTM 15986 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, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 30 as follows:
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| 6 | | (50 ILCS 205/30 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 30. Encrypted police scanner transmissions. A law |
| 8 | | enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions |
| 9 | | must provide, by license or otherwise, real time access to |
| 10 | | those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting |
| 11 | | stations, and radio broadcast stations, as those terms are |
| 12 | | defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, and to newspapers, as that term is |
| 13 | | described in Section 5 of the Notice By Publication Act.
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| 14 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January |
| 15 | | 1, 2026. |