Chapter 5 — GENERAL PROVISIONS

(5 ILCS 855/20) Sec. 20. Information retention. If a law enforcement agency obtains household electronic data under paragraphs (1) through (3) of Section 15 and does not file criminal charges, the agency shall destroy all information obtained within 60 days after obtaining the da…

(5 ILCS 855/25) Sec. 25. Information disclosure by law enforcement agencies. (a) If a law enforcement agency obtains household electronic data under Section 15, the agency shall not disclose any information obtained, except that a supervisor of that agency may disclose particular…

(5 ILCS 855/30) Sec. 30. Admissibility. If the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that a law enforcement agency obtained household electronic data pertaining to a person or his or her effects in violation of this Act, then the information shall be presumed to be inadm…

(5 ILCS 855/35) Sec. 35. Providing household electronic data to a law enforcement agency not required. Except as provided in Section 15, nothing in this Act shall be construed to require a person or entity to provide household electronic data to a law enforcement agency under thi…

(5 ILCS 855/40) Sec. 40. Security of production. Any person or entity that provides household electronic data in response to a request from any law enforcement agency under this Act shall take reasonable measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of any house…

(5 ILCS 855/45) Sec. 45. Limitation. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to the interception, recording, wiretap, or other acquisition of electronic communications as they are transmitted in real time. (Source: P.A. 102-597, eff. 1-1-22.)

(5 ILCS 855/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Electronic communication" means any origination, transmission, emission, transfer, or reception of signs, signals, data, writings, images, video, audio, or intelligence of any nature by telephone, including cellular teleph…

(5 ILCS 855/50) Sec. 50. Conflict with other laws. In the event of any conflict between this Act and any applicable federal or State law, the requirement that establishes the higher standard for law enforcement to obtain information shall govern. Nothing in this Act prohibits the…

(5 ILCS 855/55) Sec. 55. Liability. Nothing in this Act expands existing civil or criminal liability of an individual or entity arising under any applicable federal or State law. (Source: P.A. 102-597, eff. 1-1-22.)

(5 ILCS 860/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Student Confidential Reporting Act. (Source: P.A. 102-752, eff. 1-1-23.)

(5 ILCS 860/10) Sec. 10. Safe2Help Illinois program management and administration. (a) The Illinois State Police, in consultation with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, State Board of Education, Department of Human Services, and Department of Children and Family Services …

(5 ILCS 860/15) Sec. 15. Management of confidential information. (a) Any report or information submitted to the program under Section 10 is confidential, may not be released except as otherwise provided in this Act or in the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and is not subject to discl…

(5 ILCS 860/20) Sec. 20. Exemptions to confidentiality of reported information. Information regarding a report or information submitted to the program under Section 10, including any identifying information, may be disclosed as follows: (1) By the Illinois State Police, a law enf…

(5 ILCS 860/25) Sec. 25. Release of confidential information. (a) A person who is charged with a criminal offense as a result of a report or information submitted under Section 10 may petition the court for disclosure of the report or information, including any identifying inform…

(5 ILCS 860/30) Sec. 30. Funding. (a) The Illinois State Police may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the State Police Operations Assistance Fund. All moneys deposited under this Act into the State Police Operations Assistance Fund shall be used, subj…

(5 ILCS 860/35) Sec. 35. Procurement; rulemaking. The Illinois State Police, in consultation with and subject to the approval of the Chief Procurement Officer, may procure a single contract or multiple contracts to implement the provisions of this Act. A contract or contracts und…

(5 ILCS 860/40) Sec. 40. Annual reporting. The Safe2Help Illinois program manager, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and the State Board of Education, shall prepare an annual report under this Act. The report shall be filed no later than 90 days after the conclusion …

(5 ILCS 860/45) Sec. 45. Immunity. A Safe2Help Illinois helpline employee, law enforcement agency, or law enforcement official acting in good faith in compliance with this Act shall have immunity from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise occur as a result of handl…

(5 ILCS 860/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: "Safe2Help Illinois" means a school helpline involving a statewide toll-free telephone number, social media, a website, or other means of communication, or a combination of a toll-free telephone number and another means of communic…

(5 ILCS 860/905) Sec. 905. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 102-752, eff. 1-1-23; text omitted.)

(5 ILCS 860/910) Sec. 910. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 102-752, eff. 1-1-23; text omitted.)

(5 ILCS 860/915) Sec. 915. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 102-752, eff. 1-1-23; text omitted.)

(5 ILCS 860/995) Sec. 995. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does not accelerate or del…

(5 ILCS 865/1) Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Law Enforcement Gang Database Information Act. (Source: P.A. 103-185, eff. 6-30-23.)

(5 ILCS 865/10) Sec. 10. Requirements for use of gang databases and shared gang databases. Each law enforcement agency that maintains a gang database or has access to a shared gang database shall have a policy regarding those databases. Each policy shall be implemented on or befo…

(5 ILCS 865/105) Sec. 105. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 103-185, eff. 6-30-23; text omitted.)

(5 ILCS 865/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: "Gang" has the same meaning ascribed to the term in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act. "Gang database" means any database accessed by a law enforcement agency with the primary purpose to designa…

(5 ILCS 865/999) Sec. 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 103-185, eff. 6-30-23.)