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The amendment added Article I, Section 8.1 to the Illinois Constitution of 1970, which read: Section 8.1: Crime Victim's Rights: a) Crime victims, as defined by law, shall have the following rights as provided by law: 1) The right to be treated with fairness and respect for their dignity and privacy throughout the criminal justice process.
The Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) are the codified statutes of a general and permanent nature of Illinois. [1] [2] The compilation organizes the general Acts of Illinois into 67 chapters arranged within 9 major topic areas. [3] The ILCS took effect in 1993, replacing the previous numbering scheme generally known as the Illinois Revised ...
Illinois PIRG was founded in 1987, and has offices in Chicago, Springfield, IL, and a national lobbying office in Washington, D.C. called US PIRG. [4] The PIRGs emerged in the early 1970s on U.S. college campuses. The PIRG model was proposed in the book Action for a Change by Ralph Nader and Donald Ross. [5]
These legislative acts are published in the official Laws of Illinois and are called "session laws". [1] [2] The Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) are the codified statutes of a general and permanent nature. [2] [3] The Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) makes additions, deletions, and changes to ILCS. [4] There is no official version ...
Illinois state statute authorized the creation of airport authorities July 1, 1945. [3] These authorities are created by the circuit court judge upon voter petition and after hearing and referendum. Each authority is governed by a board of commissioners that is appointed by municipal, county, or state officials depending on criteria specified ...
The Secretary of State maintains the style manual for the Illinois Administrative Code and Illinois Register on its website. [4] One notable feature of the Code and Register text is the use of italics (or, in less recently updated sections, all caps) to indicate that a particular set of words is quoting or closely summarizing statutory text; a reference to the relevant section of the Illinois ...
The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections.
Connecticut v. Doehr, 501 U.S. 1 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a state statute authorizing prejudgment attachment of a defendant's real property upon the filing of an action without prior notice or hearing, a showing of extraordinary circumstances, or a requirement that the plaintiff post a bond violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth ...