CAMERA GRANT ACT-REPORTS

104th Regular Session Introduced by Marti Deuter and 1 co-sponsor

HB 3382 reduces granular per-recording reporting in the Law Enforcement Camera Grant Act, keeping basic annual metrics and board-level aggregate analysis.

Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee

Purpose

HB 3382 amends the reporting requirements in the Law Enforcement Camera Grant Act for law enforcement agencies that receive grants to purchase officer‑worn body cameras. The bill removes certain mandated, detailed per‑recording information that agencies must include in their annual reports to the Board, the Governor, and the General Assembly.

Key provisions

Retains existing duties:

The Board must continue to develop model rules for use of officer body‑worn cameras for agencies receiving grants; those rules must comply with the Law Enforcement Officer‑Worn Body Camera Act.
Each grant recipient must file an annual report on or before May 1 of the year following grant receipt and each May 1 thereafter during the grant period.
Reports must continue to include:
A brief overview of agency makeup, including number of officers using body cameras.
The number of body cameras used by the agency.
Any technical issues with equipment and remedies.
A brief description of the supervisory review process.
Any other date/time/location information relevant to program administration.
The Board must analyze agency reports and provide an annual aggregate report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before July 30 each year.

Removes previously required, detailed reporting elements (i.e., deletes specific per‑recording data that agencies had to report), including:

For each recording used in prosecutions (criminal, traffic, conservation, or municipal ordinance matters): time, date, location, offenses charged, and date charges were filed.
For recordings used in civil proceedings or internal affairs investigations: counts of pending civil proceedings/internal investigations and, for resolved matters, the nature of the complaint, the disposition (if known), and associated incident information.

Who is affected

Directly affected: Illinois law enforcement agencies that receive grants under Section 10 of the Law Enforcement Camera Grant Act.

Indirectly affected: the Board that administers the grant program and produces the statewide analysis; the Governor’s office and General Assembly as recipients of annual reports.

Procedural / timeline notes

Agency reporting deadline: May 1 annually (first report due the year after grant receipt).

Board annual analysis/report deadline: July 30.

Legislative actions to date include committee referrals, subcommittee hearings, a committee substitute reported favorably (May 8, 2025), placement on the General State Calendar (May 15, 2025), and Rule 19(a) re‑referral to Rules Committee.

Potential effects / considerations

Administrative: Reduces the granularity of data agencies must compile and submit, which may lower administrative burden.

Transparency & oversight: Eliminating per‑recording prosecution and internal‑investigation details could reduce the availability of case‑level metadata for legislative oversight, research, or public accountability.

Privacy: Removing detailed per‑recording identifiers may lessen risks to privacy for involved parties by limiting dissemination of incident‑level metadata.

Source: Bill text (50 ILCS 707/20) as introduced.

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