HB3299 Summary

• Adds new subsection (g-6) to eavesdropping exemptions allowing law enforcement to record conversations with State's Attorney verbal approval when investigating sex offenses, limited to 24 consecutive hours per approval.

• Defines "sex offense" to include involuntary servitude, trafficking in persons, child pornography, indecent solicitation of a child, child abduction, luring of a minor, grooming, and criminal sexual abuse or assault involving victims under 18 years of age.

• Restricts admissibility of recordings from sex offense investigations to prosecutions of sex offenses, forcible felonies committed during sex offense investigations (if officer injured or killed), and requires State's Attorney to make reasonable cause determination before granting verbal approval.

• Prohibits disclosure or use of recordings unrelated to sex offenses or forcible felonies in any proceeding or public disclosure.

• Requires law enforcement to provide specific information in approval requests including suspect's name, nickname, alias, physical description, or supporting information establishing reasonable cause.