Bill
SB 1300
Requires every Illinois law enforcement agency to publish monthly homicide counts, arrests/charges, and cleared cases on their site and submit to ISP.
Status / sponsors
- Primary sponsor: Sen. Robert Peters (IL).
- Co-sponsor added: Sen. Robert F. Martwick (added May 21, 2025).
- Introduced: January 28, 2025 (filed in Illinois Senate).
- Effective date specified in the bill: January 1, 2026.
Purpose
- To increase public transparency and standardize monthly reporting of homicide outcomes by requiring Illinois law enforcement agencies to publish specified homicide data on their websites and to submit the same information to the Illinois State Police (ISP) in the form, manner, and frequency the ISP requires.
Key provisions
- Amends the Uniform Crime Reporting Act (50 ILCS 709/5-12) to add a new monthly reporting requirement.
- Requires each law enforcement agency to both:
- Submit monthly to the Illinois State Police the homicide-related information (in a format/manner/frequency set by ISP); and
- Publish monthly on the agency’s public website the following information that occurred within the agency’s jurisdiction during the reporting month:
1. The number of homicides that occurred in the month, counted by the victim’s time of death.
2. Of those homicides, how many had an alleged perpetrator arrested and charged.
3. Of those homicides, how many were considered “cleared or closed” for reasons other than arrest and charging of an alleged perpetrator.
- Timing requirement: information posted to an agency’s website must be published no later than the end of the month following the reporting month (i.e., one-month lag).
- The bill delegates technical submission specifications (form, manner, frequency) to the Illinois State Police.
Who is affected
- All Illinois law enforcement agencies (municipal, county, state) that currently participate in the Uniform Crime Reporting system.
- The Illinois State Police, which will receive the submissions and set submission protocols.
- The public, media, researchers, policymakers, and victim-survivors/families who seek timely local homicide statistics.
Procedural / timeline notes
- Bill amends the existing monthly reporting section of the Uniform Crime Reporting Act; it does not on its face create criminal penalties or fiscal appropriations.
- Effective date: January 1, 2026 — agencies would need to be prepared to begin posting/submitting data under the new rules from that date forward.
- ISP will need to issue the required submission specifications (form/manner/frequency) and agencies may need to adjust internal data collection and website publishing practices to meet the one-month deadline.
Potential impacts / considerations
- Improves public access to basic outcome statistics for homicides and may enhance transparency and accountability.
- Could create additional administrative workload for smaller agencies that must collect, verify, and publish monthly counts; the ISP-determined format and frequency may mitigate or standardize this burden.
- The provision to count homicides by “time of death” and to separately report cleared/closed cases vs. arrests/charges may improve consistency across jurisdictions.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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