Illinois § 5

§ 5.

Camera program. (a) The Illinois State Police, the Illinois Department of Transportation, and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall work together to conduct a program to increase the amount of cameras along (i) expressways and the State highway system in the counties of Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Henry, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Macon, Madison, McHenry, Morgan, Ogle, Peoria, Rock Island, Sangamon, St. Clair, Whiteside, Will, and Winnebago and (ii) Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Cook County. Within 90 days after June 3, 2022 (the effective date of Public Act 102-1042), details about the program objectives, counties where the program is operational, and policies under which the program operates shall be made publicly available and posted online. (b) Images from the cameras, including, but not limited to, images of license plates collected by state-operated cameras and cameras operated by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, may be used by any law enforcement agency conducting an active law enforcement investigation subject to the limitations in this subsection. Images from the cameras may be extracted by any authorized user and used by any municipal police department, county sheriff's office, State Police officer, or other law enforcement agency with jurisdiction in the investigation of any offenses involving vehicular hijacking, aggravated vehicular hijacking, terrorism, motor vehicle theft, or any forcible felony, including, but not limited to, offenses involving the use of a firearm; to detect expressway hazards and highway conditions; and to facilitate highway safety and incident management. Images from the cameras shall not be used to enforce petty offenses or offenses not listed in this subsection, unless use of the images pertains to expressway or highway safety or hazards. All images from the cameras that are exported through a law enforcement database shall be deleted from that law enforcement database within 120 days, unless the images are relevant to an ongoing investigation or pending criminal trial. Cameras shall not be used to monitor individuals or groups in a discriminatory manner contrary to applicable State or federal law. (b-5) By August 1st of each year, the Illinois State Police, the Illinois Department of Transportation, and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall issue a joint report to the General Assembly detailing the program operations, including, but not limited to: (1) the cost of installation of cameras by county; (2) the cost of ongoing maintenance of the camera systems per county, including electrical costs and data transfer costs; (3) the number of inquiries where the investigation involved the criminal offenses outlined in subsection (b); and (4) the number of incidents in which law enforcement searched the stored data for the criminal offenses outlined in subsection (b). (c) Subject to appropriation, any funds needed to conduct the program for use on the expressways or State highway system under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation shall be taken from the Road Fund and shall be included in requests for qualification processes. Any funds needed to conduct the program for use on expressways under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall be paid for by funds from the Illinois State Tollway Highway Authority and shall be included in requests for qualification processes. (c-5) Any forcible felony, gunrunning, or firearms trafficking offense, as defined in Section 2-8, 24-3a, or 24-3b of the Criminal Code of 2012, respectively, committed on an expressway monitored by a camera system funded by money from the Road Fund or money from the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority and investigated by officers of the Illinois State Police may be prosecuted by the Attorney General or the State's Attorney where the offense was committed. (d) (Blank). (Source: P.A. 103-154, eff. 6-30-23; 104-18, eff. 6-30-25.)