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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State 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 Department of State Police Law of the
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| 5 | Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 6 | 2605-580 as follows: | ||||||
| 7 | (20 ILCS 2605/2605-580) | ||||||
| 8 | Sec. 2605-580. Pilot program; Cyber Gang Internet Gang | ||||||
| 9 | Crime Units. | ||||||
| 10 | (a) The Department of State Police shall establish a pilot | ||||||
| 11 | program from moneys available
under which Cyber Gang Internet | ||||||
| 12 | Gang Crime Units shall be created in the Lake County | ||||||
| 13 | Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the Cook County Sheriff's | ||||||
| 14 | Office, the City of Danville Police Department, and the Village | ||||||
| 15 | of Round Lake Heights Police Department. Under the pilot | ||||||
| 16 | program for the operation of Cyber Gang Internet Gang Crime | ||||||
| 17 | Units, 50% shall be allocated to the Lake County Metropolitan | ||||||
| 18 | Enforcement Group and 50% 40% shall be allocated to the Cook | ||||||
| 19 | County Sheriff's Office, 30% shall be allocated to the City of | ||||||
| 20 | Danville Police Department, and 30% shall be allocated to the | ||||||
| 21 | Village of Round Lake Heights Police Department. | ||||||
| 22 | (b) Under the pilot program, the Cyber Gang Internet Gang | ||||||
| 23 | Crime Units
shall investigate criminal activities of organized | ||||||
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| 1 | gangs that involve the use of the Internet. For the duration of | ||||||
| 2 | the pilot program and in accordance with protocols for | ||||||
| 3 | inter-jurisdictional cooperation established by the Department | ||||||
| 4 | of State Police, peace officers in each Cyber Gang Internet | ||||||
| 5 | Gang Crime Unit shall, notwithstanding any other provision of | ||||||
| 6 | law, have extra-jurisdictional authority to conduct | ||||||
| 7 | investigations and make arrests anywhere in the State of | ||||||
| 8 | Illinois regarding criminal activities of organized gangs that | ||||||
| 9 | involve the use of the Internet. | ||||||
| 10 | (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any | ||||||
| 11 | criminal statute of this State authorizes the distribution of | ||||||
| 12 | all or a portion of the proceeds realized from property seized | ||||||
| 13 | or forfeited under that statute to participating law | ||||||
| 14 | enforcement agencies or the delivery of property forfeited and
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| 15 | seized under that statute to participating law enforcement | ||||||
| 16 | agencies, a law enforcement agency in which a Cyber Gang an | ||||||
| 17 | Internet Gang Crime Unit has been created is eligible to | ||||||
| 18 | receive such a distribution or delivery if that law enforcement | ||||||
| 19 | agency participated through its Internet Gang Crime Unit, | ||||||
| 20 | regardless of the jurisdiction in which the seizure or | ||||||
| 21 | forfeiture occurs. | ||||||
| 22 | (d) The Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the | ||||||
| 23 | Cook County Sheriff's Office, the City of Danville Police | ||||||
| 24 | Department, and the Village of Round Lake Heights Police | ||||||
| 25 | Department shall report to the Department of State Police on a | ||||||
| 26 | quarterly basis on the activities of their Cyber Gang Internet | ||||||
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| 1 | Gang Crime Units in accordance with reporting guidelines | ||||||
| 2 | established by the Department of State Police. The Department | ||||||
| 3 | of State Police shall file a consolidated report on a quarterly | ||||||
| 4 | basis with the General Assembly and the Governor. The | ||||||
| 5 | Department's
consolidated report may also contain any | ||||||
| 6 | evaluations or recommendations that the Department deems | ||||||
| 7 | appropriate. | ||||||
| 8 | (e) The pilot program shall terminate on July 1, 2012 2010. | ||||||
| 9 | (f) As used in this Section, "organized gang" has the | ||||||
| 10 | meaning ascribed to it in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang | ||||||
| 11 | Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.
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| 12 | (Source: P.A. 95-423, eff. 8-24-07.)
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| 13 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 14 | becoming law.
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