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1    AN ACT concerning the Law Enforcement Information Task
2Force Act.
 
3    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4represented in the General Assembly:
 
5    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Law
6Enforcement Information Task Force Act.
 
7    Section 5. Task Force; purpose. There shall be created a
8Law Enforcement Information Task Force to study and make
9recommendations regarding criminal discovery and law
10enforcement information sharing.
 
11    Section 10. Members.
12     (a) The Task Force shall consist of the following members
13who will not be compensated:
14        (1) the Director of the Administrative Office of the
15    Illinois Courts, or his or her designee;
16        (2) the Attorney General, or his or her designee;
17        (3) the Director of State Police, or his or her
18    designee;
19        (3.5) the Secretary of the Department of Innovation and
20    Technology, or his or her designee;
21        (4) a State's Attorney from a county with more than
22    3,000,000 residents, or his or her designee;

 

 

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1        (5) a public defender from a county with more than
2    3,000,000 residents, or his or her designee;
3        (6) a representative of the Office of the State's
4    Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor;
5        (7) a representative of the Office of the State
6    Appellate Defender;
7        (8) a representative of the Illinois State's Attorneys
8    Association, appointed by the Governor;
9        (9) a representative of the Illinois Public Defender
10    Association, appointed by the Governor;
11        (10) a representative from the Illinois Judges
12    Association, appointed by the Speaker of the House of
13    Representatives;
14        (11) a representative from the Illinois State Bar
15    Association, appointed by the Minority Leader of the House
16    of Representatives;
17        (12) a representative of the Chicago Bar Association,
18    appointed by the Senate President;
19        (13) a representative from the Illinois Sheriffs'
20    Association, appointed by the Senate Minority Leader;
21        (14) a representative from the Illinois Association of
22    Chiefs of Police, appointed by the Governor;
23        (15) the chief of police from a municipality with more
24    than 1,000,000 residents, or his or her designee;
25        (16) the sheriff from a county with more than 3,000,000
26    residents, or his or her designee; and

 

 

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1        (17) the Director of the Illinois Criminal Justice
2    Information Authority, or his or her designee.
3    (b) The Law Enforcement Information Task Force shall be
4established within the Illinois Criminal Justice Information
5Authority and the Illinois Criminal Justice Information
6Authority shall serve as the technology and policy advisor to
7assist the Task Force. The Illinois Criminal Justice
8Information Authority shall work with State and local criminal
9justice agencies to promote information sharing systems
10through its access to technical expertise and its grant-making
11powers for technology information projects. The Illinois
12Criminal Justice Information Authority shall provide staff to
13serve as a liaison between the Law Enforcement Information Task
14Force and its stakeholders to provide guidance in criminal
15justice information sharing, best practices and strategies,
16and to effectuate the mission of the Task Force.
17    (c) The members of the Task Force shall elect a chair of
18the Task Force. The chair of the Task Force shall convene the
19first meeting of the Task Force on or before August 31, 2016.
20The Task Force shall meet at least twice a month thereafter
21until it completes its duties under this Act, or until December
2231, 2016, whichever is earlier.
 
23    Section 15. Duties of the Task Force.
24    (a) The Task Force may consult with experts to provide
25assistance as necessary.

 

 

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1    (b) The Task Force shall:
2        (1) analyze the criminal discovery process in this
3    State to determine the actual costs, including, but not
4    limited to, labor, materials, time, and other tangible
5    costs of the current criminal discovery process to
6    determine how technology can improve the process for all
7    participants;
8        (2) analyze the process for information sharing,
9    including, but not limited to, an analysis of record
10    management systems, computer aided dispatch systems, and
11    other technology used to process information between law
12    enforcement agencies in this State to determine the actual
13    costs of the current process;
14        (3) analyze the current information sharing process
15    between law enforcement agencies to determine how
16    technology can improve the process for all participants;
17        (4) determine which prosecutors' offices obtain all
18    law enforcement discoverable evidence in an electronic
19    format, which prosecutors' offices will soon be able to
20    obtain all law enforcement discoverable evidence in an
21    electronic format, and which prosecutors' offices will not
22    have that ability at any point in the future without
23    assistance;
24        (5) determine the barriers for those prosecutors'
25    offices that will not be able to obtain law enforcement
26    discoverable evidence in an electronic format without

 

 

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1    assistance;
2        (6) determine which law enforcement agencies obtain
3    and utilize data entirely, or partially, in an electronic
4    format, which law enforcement agencies will soon be able to
5    obtain and utilize data entirely in an electronic format,
6    and which law enforcement agencies will not be able to
7    obtain and utilize data entirely in an electronic format at
8    any point in the future without assistance;
9        (7) study how a single statewide criminal information
10    sharing system or other technology may improve electronic
11    discovery or electronic redaction;
12        (8) study how a statewide standardized law enforcement
13    reporting form that can be easily redacted may improve the
14    criminal discovery process;
15        (9) study the short-term needs for law enforcement
16    agencies and State's Attorneys to facilitate greater use of
17    electronic discovery and information sharing;
18        (10) study whether a single standardized statewide
19    case record management system or other law enforcement
20    technology would provide better and additional access to
21    information for law enforcement;
22        (11) determine whether a single standardized statewide
23    case record management system or other electronic
24    discovery technology would provide for a better and more
25    efficient criminal discovery process and offer any cost
26    savings;

 

 

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1        (12) determine whether a single standardized statewide
2    case record management system or other information sharing
3    technology would provide for a better and more efficient
4    law enforcement information sharing process and offer any
5    cost savings;
6        (13) suggest an alternative funding process to the
7    State's current method to pay for criminal discovery costs;
8        (14) suggest an alternative funding process to the
9    State's current method to pay for law enforcement
10    information sharing costs;
11        (15) determine which executive branch agency, judicial
12    branch agency, or quasi-governmental organization is best
13    suited to serve as a conduit and coordinator for a
14    statewide criminal electronic discovery system; and
15        (16) determine which executive branch agency, judicial
16    branch agency, or quasi-governmental organization is best
17    suited to serve as a conduit and coordinator for a
18    statewide criminal information sharing system.
 
19    Section 20. Preliminary and final report.
20    (a) The Task Force shall provide a preliminary report to
21the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 15,
222016, if the final report is not completed by then.
23    (b) The Task Force shall issue a final report to the
24Governor and General Assembly on or before January 15, 2017.
25The report shall include recommendations for legislation, use

 

 

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1of technology, and other non-legislative processes that would
2improve the criminal discovery process and law enforcement
3information sharing.
 
4    Section 25. Repeal. This Act is repealed on February 1,
52017.
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.