Below is a summary of activities of this section from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. While past activity is no guarantee of future activity, it may give a idea of what to expect this year.
Section Stats
Newsletters
Issues: 4
CLE
Live Programs: 3
Discussions
Posts: 40
Legislation
Bills Reviewed: 395
Continuing Legal Education
Section members receive discounts on section-sponsored CLE programs. During the 2023–24 bar year, the Section sponsored the following programs:
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Sponsor LIVE WEB - Illinois Bond Reform: What to Expect (09/14/2023)
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Co-Sponsor LIVE WEB - Just Released: Resources for Reentry into a Community after Prison (02/29/2024)
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Sponsor LIVE WEB - Defending a Demon: How Representing John Wayne Gacy Impacted One Woman's Legal Career (06/12/2024)
ISBA Central Discussions
ISBA Central communities allows section members to pose questions, answer questions, and share information with fellow section members. Members of the section get free access to the section’s community. Joining any section also grants you access to the Transactional and Litigation communities. Below are the total number of discussion posts during the 2023–24 bar year.
Criminal Justice
- Community members: 1,136
- Total discussion posts: 40
Criminal - DUI - Traffic
- Community members: 2,324
- Total discussion posts: 888
Transactional
- Community members: 29,383
- Total discussion posts: 551
Litigation
- Community members: 29,384
- Total discussion posts: 1,463
Legislation
The Section Council reviewed 395 bills that may affect their members’ practice area. Highlights of the most recent legislative session include:
- Senate Bill 2934 amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to provide that it is not a defense to a prosecution for hazing that the person against whom the hazing was directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing.
- House Bill 1168 amends the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. Provides that except in certain medical examiner or coroner investigations, whenever a person's DNA profile is collected due to the person being a victim of a crime, as identified by law enforcement, that specific profile collected in conjunction with that criminal investigation shall not be entered into any DNA database.
- House Bill 4500 amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the names of the offenses of unlawful use of weapons, unlawful use of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, being an armed habitual criminal, unlawful use of firearm projectiles, and unlawful use of a firearm in the shape of a wireless telephone to unlawful possession of weapons, unlawful possession of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm by a repeat felony offender, unlawful possession of firearm projectiles, and unlawful possession of a firearm in the shape of a wireless telephone.