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By Cole Lauterbach - Illinois Radio Network
The goal is to have every Illinois police officer and state trooper wearing a body camera by 2025, if a proposal passed by lawmakers in January is signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker this spring.
The body cam provision is one part of a huge criminal justice reform bill passed by the Legislature in January in response to protests that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last summer.
Ed Wojcicki, executive director of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, said that people do not realize that there is a lot of support among law enforcement for using body cameras.
Normal, IL, USA / www.cities929.com
Feb 11, 2021 12:36 PM
(The Center Square) – The goal is to have every Illinois police officer and state trooper wearing a body camera by 2025, if a proposal passed by lawmakers in January is signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker this spring.
The body cam provision is one part of a huge criminal justice reform bill passed by the Legislature in January in response to protests that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last summer.
Ed Wojcicki, executive director of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, said that people do not realize that there is a lot of support among law enforcement for using body cameras.
By Raymon Troncoso & Capitol News Illinois
• Feb 4, 2021
Credit Ryan Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
An omnibus criminal justice bill passed by the General Assembly last month would, if signed by the governor, mandate all Illinois law enforcement agencies to use body cameras.
The legislation, contained in House Bill 3653, would amend the state’s 2015 Law Enforcement Officer-Worn Body Camera Act from affecting “any law enforcement” that may use body cameras to mandating “all law enforcement agencies must” use body cameras for “all law enforcement officers” by 2025.
Effective dates for the legislation are staggered by the size of departments. Municipalities and counties with more than 500,000 people must have law enforcement using body cameras by Jan. 1, 2022. Municipalities and counties with more than 100,000 must comply by 2023, those with more than 50,000 by 2024 and those with less than 50,000 people by 2025.
February 2, 2021
Oglesby Police Department – Trident Office – Studstill Media File Photo
OGLESBY – Officer Randy Slimko Leininger was sworn in Monday night as the newest member of the Oglesby Police Department. Commissioner of Public Property, Parks, Ambulance, Fire, Human Resources Carrie Lijewski gave the oath of office to Leininger in front of the Mayor and the Oglesby City Council. Commissioner Lijewski also announced that the Oglesby Police Department has earned a Federal Use of Force certification from the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police. The department has 4 full-time patrol officers and 10 part-time officers.
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