HB0802 Summary

• Amends Illinois eavesdropping laws to add electronic recording exemptions for lineups under new Section 107A-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

• Establishes detailed lineup procedures requiring independent administrators or blind administration methods to prevent administrator bias in eyewitness identifications.

• Mandates video and audio recording of all lineup procedures when practical, with eyewitness instructions that perpetrator may not be present and that excluding innocent persons is equally important.

• Requires lineups to include at least 5 fillers for photo lineups and at least 3-5 fillers for live lineups, with suspect positioned differently for each eyewitness when multiple witnesses present.

• Requires comprehensive official lineup reports documenting identification results, participant names, date/time/location, lineup type, filler sources, and photographs or visual recordings of all participants.