95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB0097

 

Introduced 1/31/2007, by Sen. William R. Haine

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/14-3   from Ch. 38, par. 14-3

    Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that, with prior notification to the State's Attorney of the county in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the aid of any device to any conversation taking place within or about any motor vehicle under the control and direction of a law enforcement officer, under circumstances where the use of the device is necessary for the detection or investigation of the theft of that motor vehicle is exempt from the Code's eavesdropping provisions. Requires the Director of State Police to issue regulations as are necessary concerning the use of devices, retention of tape recordings, and reports regarding their use. Provides that any recording or evidence derived as the result of the exemption is inadmissible in any proceeding, criminal, civil, or administrative, except for (i) the theft of the motor vehicle in question, (ii) the commission of any crime taking place within, or otherwise involving the use of, the motor vehicle in question, or (iii) when used as direct impeachment of a witness concerning matters contained in the interception or recording.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
5 Section 14-3 as follows:
 
6     (720 ILCS 5/14-3)  (from Ch. 38, par. 14-3)
7     Sec. 14-3. Exemptions. The following activities shall be
8 exempt from the provisions of this Article:
9     (a) Listening to radio, wireless and television
10 communications of any sort where the same are publicly made;
11     (b) Hearing conversation when heard by employees of any
12 common carrier by wire incidental to the normal course of their
13 employment in the operation, maintenance or repair of the
14 equipment of such common carrier by wire so long as no
15 information obtained thereby is used or divulged by the hearer;
16     (c) Any broadcast by radio, television or otherwise whether
17 it be a broadcast or recorded for the purpose of later
18 broadcasts of any function where the public is in attendance
19 and the conversations are overheard incidental to the main
20 purpose for which such broadcasts are then being made;
21     (d) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
22 any emergency communication made in the normal course of
23 operations by any federal, state or local law enforcement

 

 

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1 agency or institutions dealing in emergency services,
2 including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, ambulance
3 services, fire fighting agencies, any public utility,
4 emergency repair facility, civilian defense establishment or
5 military installation;
6     (e) Recording the proceedings of any meeting required to be
7 open by the Open Meetings Act, as amended;
8     (f) Recording or listening with the aid of any device to
9 incoming telephone calls of phone lines publicly listed or
10 advertised as consumer "hotlines" by manufacturers or
11 retailers of food and drug products. Such recordings must be
12 destroyed, erased or turned over to local law enforcement
13 authorities within 24 hours from the time of such recording and
14 shall not be otherwise disseminated. Failure on the part of the
15 individual or business operating any such recording or
16 listening device to comply with the requirements of this
17 subsection shall eliminate any civil or criminal immunity
18 conferred upon that individual or business by the operation of
19 this Section;
20     (g) With prior notification to the State's Attorney of the
21 county in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the
22 aid of any device to any conversation where a law enforcement
23 officer, or any person acting at the direction of law
24 enforcement, is a party to the conversation and has consented
25 to it being intercepted or recorded under circumstances where
26 the use of the device is necessary for the protection of the

 

 

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1 law enforcement officer or any person acting at the direction
2 of law enforcement, in the course of an investigation of a
3 forcible felony, a felony violation of the Illinois Controlled
4 Substances Act, a felony violation of the Cannabis Control Act,
5 a felony violation of the Methamphetamine Control and Community
6 Protection Act, or any "streetgang related" or "gang-related"
7 felony as those terms are defined in the Illinois Streetgang
8 Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act. Any recording or evidence
9 derived as the result of this exemption shall be inadmissible
10 in any proceeding, criminal, civil or administrative, except
11 (i) where a party to the conversation suffers great bodily
12 injury or is killed during such conversation, or (ii) when used
13 as direct impeachment of a witness concerning matters contained
14 in the interception or recording. The Director of the
15 Department of State Police shall issue regulations as are
16 necessary concerning the use of devices, retention of tape
17 recordings, and reports regarding their use;
18     (g-5) With approval of the State's Attorney of the county
19 in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the aid of
20 any device to any conversation where a law enforcement officer,
21 or any person acting at the direction of law enforcement, is a
22 party to the conversation and has consented to it being
23 intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of
24 any offense defined in Article 29D of this Code. In all such
25 cases, an application for an order approving the previous or
26 continuing use of an eavesdropping device must be made within

 

 

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1 48 hours of the commencement of such use. In the absence of
2 such an order, or upon its denial, any continuing use shall
3 immediately terminate. The Director of State Police shall issue
4 rules as are necessary concerning the use of devices, retention
5 of tape recordings, and reports regarding their use.
6     Any recording or evidence obtained or derived in the course
7 of an investigation of any offense defined in Article 29D of
8 this Code shall, upon motion of the State's Attorney or
9 Attorney General prosecuting any violation of Article 29D, be
10 reviewed in camera with notice to all parties present by the
11 court presiding over the criminal case, and, if ruled by the
12 court to be relevant and otherwise admissible, it shall be
13 admissible at the trial of the criminal case.
14     This subsection (g-5) is inoperative on and after January
15 1, 2005. No conversations recorded or monitored pursuant to
16 this subsection (g-5) shall be inadmissible in a court of law
17 by virtue of the repeal of this subsection (g-5) on January 1,
18 2005;
19     (g-7) With prior notification to the State's Attorney of
20 the county in which it is to occur, recording or listening with
21 the aid of any device to any conversation taking place within
22 or about any motor vehicle under the control and direction of a
23 law enforcement officer, under circumstances where the use of
24 the device is necessary for the detection or investigation of
25 the theft of that motor vehicle. The Director of State Police
26 shall issue regulations as are necessary concerning the use of

 

 

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1 devices, retention of tape recordings, and reports regarding
2 their use.
3     Any recording or evidence derived as the result of this
4 exemption is inadmissible in any proceeding, criminal, civil,
5 or administrative, except for (i) the theft of the motor
6 vehicle in question, (ii) the commission of any crime taking
7 place within, or otherwise involving the use of, the motor
8 vehicle in question, or (iii) when used as direct impeachment
9 of a witness concerning matters contained in the interception
10 or recording;
11     (h) Recordings made simultaneously with a video recording
12 of an oral conversation between a peace officer, who has
13 identified his or her office, and a person stopped for an
14 investigation of an offense under the Illinois Vehicle Code;
15     (i) Recording of a conversation made by or at the request
16 of a person, not a law enforcement officer or agent of a law
17 enforcement officer, who is a party to the conversation, under
18 reasonable suspicion that another party to the conversation is
19 committing, is about to commit, or has committed a criminal
20 offense against the person or a member of his or her immediate
21 household, and there is reason to believe that evidence of the
22 criminal offense may be obtained by the recording;
23     (j) The use of a telephone monitoring device by either (1)
24 a corporation or other business entity engaged in marketing or
25 opinion research or (2) a corporation or other business entity
26 engaged in telephone solicitation, as defined in this

 

 

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1 subsection, to record or listen to oral telephone solicitation
2 conversations or marketing or opinion research conversations
3 by an employee of the corporation or other business entity
4 when:
5         (i) the monitoring is used for the purpose of service
6     quality control of marketing or opinion research or
7     telephone solicitation, the education or training of
8     employees or contractors engaged in marketing or opinion
9     research or telephone solicitation, or internal research
10     related to marketing or opinion research or telephone
11     solicitation; and
12         (ii) the monitoring is used with the consent of at
13     least one person who is an active party to the marketing or
14     opinion research conversation or telephone solicitation
15     conversation being monitored.
16     No communication or conversation or any part, portion, or
17 aspect of the communication or conversation made, acquired, or
18 obtained, directly or indirectly, under this exemption (j), may
19 be, directly or indirectly, furnished to any law enforcement
20 officer, agency, or official for any purpose or used in any
21 inquiry or investigation, or used, directly or indirectly, in
22 any administrative, judicial, or other proceeding, or divulged
23 to any third party.
24     When recording or listening authorized by this subsection
25 (j) on telephone lines used for marketing or opinion research
26 or telephone solicitation purposes results in recording or

 

 

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1 listening to a conversation that does not relate to marketing
2 or opinion research or telephone solicitation; the person
3 recording or listening shall, immediately upon determining
4 that the conversation does not relate to marketing or opinion
5 research or telephone solicitation, terminate the recording or
6 listening and destroy any such recording as soon as is
7 practicable.
8     Business entities that use a telephone monitoring or
9 telephone recording system pursuant to this exemption (j) shall
10 provide current and prospective employees with notice that the
11 monitoring or recordings may occur during the course of their
12 employment. The notice shall include prominent signage
13 notification within the workplace.
14     Business entities that use a telephone monitoring or
15 telephone recording system pursuant to this exemption (j) shall
16 provide their employees or agents with access to personal-only
17 telephone lines which may be pay telephones, that are not
18 subject to telephone monitoring or telephone recording.
19     For the purposes of this subsection (j), "telephone
20 solicitation" means a communication through the use of a
21 telephone by live operators:
22         (i) soliciting the sale of goods or services;
23         (ii) receiving orders for the sale of goods or
24     services;
25         (iii) assisting in the use of goods or services; or
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1     collection of bank or retail credit accounts.
2     For the purposes of this subsection (j), "marketing or
3 opinion research" means a marketing or opinion research
4 interview conducted by a live telephone interviewer engaged by
5 a corporation or other business entity whose principal business
6 is the design, conduct, and analysis of polls and surveys
7 measuring the opinions, attitudes, and responses of
8 respondents toward products and services, or social or
9 political issues, or both;
10     (k) Electronic recordings, including but not limited to, a
11 motion picture, videotape, digital, or other visual or audio
12 recording, made of a custodial interrogation of an individual
13 at a police station or other place of detention by a law
14 enforcement officer under Section 5-401.5 of the Juvenile Court
15 Act of 1987 or Section 103-2.1 of the Code of Criminal
16 Procedure of 1963; and
17     (l) Recording the interview or statement of any person when
18 the person knows that the interview is being conducted by a law
19 enforcement officer or prosecutor and the interview takes place
20 at a police station that is currently participating in the
21 Custodial Interview Pilot Program established under the
22 Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act.
23 (Source: P.A. 93-206, eff. 7-18-03; 93-517, eff. 8-6-03;
24 93-605, eff. 11-19-03; 94-556, eff. 9-11-05.)