SB2872 Summary

• Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act to authorize the Authority to conduct strategic planning and provide technical assistance for comprehensive trauma recovery services for violent crime victims in underserved communities with high violent crime rates.

• Expands the Authority's duties to include providing services such as behavioral health treatment, financial recovery assistance, family support, relocation assistance, and legal system navigation for trauma victims.

• Modifies sentence credit provisions in the Unified Code of Corrections to replace references to "good conduct" credit with "earned" sentence credit and establishes eligibility criteria based on risk/needs assessments and validated instruments.

• Changes the maximum earned sentence credit from 90 days to 180 days for eligible inmates, with eligibility determined by assessment results, crime circumstances, disciplinary history, and rehabilitation commitment.

• Updates sentencing hearing and victim impact procedures to reflect new terminology for earned sentence credit and clarifies that judges must state estimated custody periods based on current sentence credit rules at time of sentencing.