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725 ILCS 167/20

(725 ILCS 167/20)

Sec. 20. Information retention.

(a) If a law enforcement agency uses a drone under Section 15 of this Act, the agency shall destroy all information gathered by the drone within the following timeframes:

(1) All information gathered pursuant to paragraph

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), or (9) of Section 15 shall be destroyed within 30 days after being gathered.

(2) All information gathered pursuant to paragraph

(10) of Section 15 shall be destroyed within 24 hours after being gathered.

(3) All information gathered pursuant to paragraph

(7) of Section 15 shall be turned over to the requesting local government agency as soon as practicable, and all gathered information shall be destroyed immediately after the information has been turned over.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a supervisor at a law enforcement agency may retain particular information if:
(1) there is reasonable suspicion that the

information contains evidence of criminal activity;

(2) the information is relevant to an ongoing

investigation or pending criminal trial;

(3) a supervisor at the agency deems that the

information will be used exclusively for training purposes, provided that any such information shall not contain any personally identifiable information; or

(4) the information consists of only flight path

data, metadata, or telemetry information of the drone.

(Source: P.A. 103-101, eff. 6-16-23.)