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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The Area-wide Law Enforcement Radio Terminal
3 System (ALERTS) combines traditional radio technology with
4 data communications to provide officers in patrol cars with the
5 information they need for making quick, effective decisions on
6 the street; and
 
7     WHEREAS, Approximately 3,000 public safety officers
8 working for over 300 public safety agencies, including
9 municipal police departments, county sheriffs' offices, and
10 firefighting agencies, use the ALERTS system in their law
11 enforcement and other public safety activities on a daily basis
12 to maximize the health and safety of Illinois citizens; and
 
13     WHEREAS, The ALERTS system was originally set up and paid
14 for in the 1980s by Illinois municipal police forces and county
15 sheriffs' offices pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement;
16 and
 
17     WHEREAS, The process by which the ALERTS system was set up
18 and maintained is precisely the sort of public-safety-minded
19 intergovernmental agreement that the State of Illinois ought to
20 be fostering and supporting in this time of budgetary
21 constraints and threats to homeland security; and
 
22     WHEREAS, A study by the Department of Central Management
23 Services has recently taken place, which points toward the
24 convergence of the ALERTS system with the Illinois Wireless
25 Information Network (I-WIN) being utilized by the State Police,
26 and further suggests that the operation of the ALERTS system be
27 transferred to the Department of Central Management Services,
28 which would in turn dismantle one of the largest public safety
29 communications networks in the country; therefore, be it
 
30     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE

 

 

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1 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
2 we express our thanks to the units of local government that
3 took far-sighted cooperative action, starting in the 1980s, to
4 create and foster the ALERTS law enforcement data
5 communications system; and be it further
 
6     RESOLVED, That the State and its ministerial units should
7 encourage intergovernmental cooperation between units of local
8 government by allowing the cooperating units to hold on to what
9 they have, rather than using their cooperation as an excuse or
10 motivation to expropriate the products of their cooperation;
11 and be it further
 
12     RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be presented to
13 the Executive Director of the Criminal Justice Information
14 Society, the Director of Central Management Services, and the
15 Governor.