104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB0265 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 205/30 new Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026. LRB104 05953 RTM 15986 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB0265 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 50 ILCS 205/30 new 50 ILCS 205/30 new Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026. LRB104 05953 RTM 15986 b LRB104 05953 RTM 15986 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB0265 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 205/30 new 50 ILCS 205/30 new
50 ILCS 205/30 new
Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026.
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LRB104 05953 RTM 15986 b
A BILL FOR
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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Local Records Act is amended by adding
5 Section 30 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 205/30 new)
7 Sec. 30. Encrypted police scanner transmissions. A law
8 enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions
9 must provide, by license or otherwise, real time access to
10 those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting
11 stations, and radio broadcast stations, as those terms are
12 defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, and to newspapers, as that term is
13 described in Section 5 of the Notice By Publication Act.
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB0265 Introduced 1/24/2025, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 205/30 new 50 ILCS 205/30 new
50 ILCS 205/30 new
Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency that encrypts police scanner transmissions must provide, by license or otherwise, real-time access to those transmissions to broadcast stations, broadcasting stations, radio broadcast stations, and newspapers. Effective January 1, 2026.
LRB104 05953 RTM 15986 b LRB104 05953 RTM 15986 b
LRB104 05953 RTM 15986 b
A BILL FOR
50 ILCS 205/30 new
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