103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4754
 
Introduced 2/6/2024, by Rep. Kam Buckner
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 709/5-12
    Amends the Uniform Crime Reporting Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency shall publish monthly on its website, and submit to the Illinois State Police in a form, manner, and frequency as required by the Illinois State Police, the following information that occurred in the law enforcement agency's jurisdiction: (1) how many homicides occurred in a month based on the time of death of a victim; (2) how many of the homicides had an alleged perpetrator arrested and charged; and (3) how many homicides are considered cleared or closed for a reason other than the arrest and charging of an alleged perpetrator. Provides that information required to be published on a law enforcement agency's website must be published on the website by the end of the month following the reporting month. Effective January 1, 2025.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Uniform Crime Reporting Act is amended by 
5changing Section 5-12 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 709/5-12)
7    Sec. 5-12. Monthly reporting. 
8    (a) All law enforcement agencies shall submit to the 
9Illinois State Police on a monthly basis the following:
10        (1) beginning January 1, 2016, a report on any 
11    arrest-related death that shall include information 
12    regarding the deceased, the officer, any weapon used by 
13    the officer or the deceased, and the circumstances of the 
14    incident. The Illinois State Police shall submit on a 
15    quarterly basis all information collected under this 
16    paragraph (1) to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information 
17    Authority, contingent upon updated federal guidelines 
18    regarding the Uniform Crime Reporting Program;
19        (2) beginning January 1, 2017, a report on any 
20    instance when a law enforcement officer discharges his or 
21    her firearm causing a non-fatal injury to a person, during 
22    the performance of his or her official duties or in the 
23    line of duty;
 
 
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1        (3) a report of incident-based information on hate 
2    crimes including information describing the offense, 
3    location of the offense, type of victim, offender, and 
4    bias motivation. If no hate crime incidents occurred 
5    during a reporting month, the law enforcement agency must 
6    submit a no incident record, as required by the Illinois 
7    State Police;
8        (4) a report on any incident of an alleged commission 
9    of a domestic crime, that shall include information 
10    regarding the victim, offender, date and time of the 
11    incident, any injury inflicted, any weapons involved in 
12    the commission of the offense, and the relationship 
13    between the victim and the offender;
14        (5) data on an index of offenses selected by the 
15    Illinois State Police based on the seriousness of the 
16    offense, frequency of occurrence of the offense, and 
17    likelihood of being reported to law enforcement. The data 
18    shall include the number of index crime offenses committed 
19    and number of associated arrests;
20        (6) data on offenses and incidents reported by schools 
21    to local law enforcement. The data shall include offenses 
22    defined as an attack against school personnel, 
23    intimidation offenses, drug incidents, and incidents 
24    involving weapons; 
25        (7) beginning on July 1, 2021, a report on incidents 
26    where a law enforcement officer was dispatched to deal 
 
 
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1    with a person experiencing a mental health crisis or 
2    incident. The report shall include the number of 
3    incidents, the level of law enforcement response and the 
4    outcome of each incident. For purposes of this Section, a 
5    "mental health crisis" is when a person's behavior puts 
6    them at risk of hurting themselves or others or prevents 
7    them from being able to care for themselves; 
8        (8) beginning on July 1, 2021, a report on use of 
9    force, including any action that resulted in the death or 
10    serious bodily injury of a person or the discharge of a 
11    firearm at or in the direction of a person. The report 
12    shall include information required by the Illinois State 
13    Police, pursuant to Section 5-11 of this Act.
14    All law enforcement agencies shall also submit to the 
15Illinois State Police the information required to be published 
16under subsection (b) in a form, manner, and frequency as 
17required by the Illinois State Police.
18    (b) A law enforcement agency shall publish monthly on its 
19website the following information that occurred in the law 
20enforcement agency's jurisdiction:
21        (1) how many homicides occurred in a month based on 
22    the time of death of a victim;
23        (2) how many of the homicides described in paragraph 
24    (1) had an alleged perpetrator arrested and charged; and
25        (3) how many homicides described in paragraph (1) are 
26    considered cleared or closed for a reason other than the 
 
 
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1    arrest and charging of an alleged perpetrator.
2    Information required to be published under this subsection 
3must be published on the law enforcement agency's website by 
4the end of the month following the reporting month. 
5(Source: P.A. 101-652, eff. 7-1-21; 102-28, eff. 6-25-21; 
6102-538, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
81, 2025.