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WBGZ Radio 1/8/2021 |
By Doug Jenkins - WBGZ Radio
Lawmakers will be taking up as soon as this weekend a bill that could have massive implications for the future of law enforcement and communities in Illinois. A 600-plus page bill, House Bill 163 would - according to the Illinois Sheriff s Association - eliminate law enforcement as we know it from every community in the state to invalidate constitutionally protected due process of officers .
What started as a prescription drug monitoring bill introduced by local State Representative Katie Stuart (D-Glen Carbon) has morphed into a bill that would – among other things - allow officers to be punished or fired based on anonymous and unsubstantiated or unverifiable complaints. Wood River Police Chief Brad Wells feels this is an awful bill.