Public Act 98-1012

(Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake; Althoff, R-Crystal Lake) amends the current statute on bail bonds and electronic surveillance. Under current law, if a defendant is charged with a violation of an order or protection, the court at the defendant’s bail bond hearing may order the respondent to undergo a risk-assessment evaluation and use electronic surveillance. The court may order that the person, as a condition of bail, to be placed under electronic surveillance. Public Act 98-1012 expands this statute to include a number of other offenses, including domestic battery, aggravated domestic battery, kidnapping, aggravated kidnaping, unlawful restraint, aggravated unlawful restraint, stalking, aggravated stalking, cyberstalking, harassment by telephone, harassment through electronic communications, or an attempt to commit first degree murder committed against an intimate partner regardless whether an order of protection has been issued against the person. Requires the court to document in the record its reasons for making a determination whether to order the respondent to undergo a risk-assessment evaluation or to be placed under electronic surveillance. Requires the defendant to pay for the cost of the risk-assessment and the electronic surveillance. Effective Jan. 1, 2015.