Full Text of HR0618 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION | 2 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois Court Reporters Association (ILCRA) | 3 | | is the sole state-wide association of freelance and official | 4 | | court reporters in Illinois, with professional membership | 5 | | exclusively comprised of licensed certified shorthand | 6 | | reporters (CSRs), individuals who are highly trained and | 7 | | skilled and ethically bound to write in real time each spoken | 8 | | word spoken at hearings, trials, arbitrations, and | 9 | | depositions; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Illinois licensed certified shorthand reporters | 11 | | (stenographers) are the only professionals in Illinois for | 12 | | whom the title court reporter is reserved by state statute; | 13 | | and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Court reporters write shorthand at 225 words a | 15 | | minute, and often much faster, to create the verbatim record | 16 | | upon which the courts and counsel rely as the gold standard of | 17 | | transcripts of proceedings and from which discrete case law | 18 | | and citations derive; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Court reporters write each word spoken at legal | 20 | | proceedings in Illinois using phonetic alphabetic keyboards on | 21 | | stenographic machines that store the shorthand verbatim notes | 22 | | on redundant electronic text backup so that the courts, |
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| 1 | | counsel, litigants, and defendants can rest assured that the | 2 | | accurate, full record of proceedings is safe and secure not | 3 | | only for transcript production but also from the dangers of | 4 | | the testimony being altered, publicly disseminated, or | 5 | | entirely lost through the vulnerabilities of unlicensed audio | 6 | | recorder operators who do not possess the inimitable skills of | 7 | | certified shorthand reporters; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Illinois shorthand reporters and real-time | 9 | | captioners provide Communication Access Realtime Translation | 10 | | (CART) by captioning for attorneys, litigants, defendants, | 11 | | jurors, and the public at legal proceedings, business | 12 | | meetings, educational classes and lectures, sporting events, | 13 | | and arts performances for many Illinoisans who are deaf or | 14 | | hard-of-hearing, have auditory processing disabilities, or for | 15 | | whom English is not their first language; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Stenographers and captioners produce a reliably | 17 | | accurate and complete record of each spoken word and deserve | 18 | | the public's confidence earned by the court reporters' | 19 | | position of neutrality and adherence to confidentiality and | 20 | | ethics guidelines necessitated by the CSRs' role as an officer | 21 | | of the court; therefore, be it | 22 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 23 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| 1 | | we declare February 3-10, 2024 as "Court Reporting and | 2 | | Captioning Week" in the State of Illinois; and be it further | 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the Illinois Court Reporters Association as a | 5 | | symbol of our respect and esteem. |
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