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Committee approves 25-foot buffer for officers during investigations
Summary
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee advanced House Bill 1122 on a 10-3 vote to reinstate a statutory standard directing people to keep 25 feet from law enforcement conducting investigations, after a federal appellate injunction found prior language too vague.
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee voted 10-3 to pass House Bill 1122, a measure that would require people to stay 25 feet away from law enforcement while officers are conducting an investigation and to make clearer the standard officers must use before ordering someone to move.
The measure, introduced by Chairwoman McNamara, aims to address vagueness the Seventh Circuit identified in litigation that blocked enforcement of the earlier 2023 law and to provide a clearer standard for officers when asking bystanders to step back.
Chairwoman McNamara said the bill “seeks to satisfy 1 of the injunction recommendations that there was no order for law enforcement to tell people to get back,” and that the change is meant to resolve the…
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