Proposed bill would ban referring students to police to be ticketed

A proposed Illinois invoice would prohibit college officers from referring college students to native legislation enforcement for ticketing. 

Launched by State Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago) in mid-February, the laws amends the Illinois Faculty Code to make referring college students to a neighborhood public entity, college useful resource officer or peace officer for a advantageous unlawful if there are different strategies for self-discipline accessible at school coverage. 

The invoice would solely apply to violations of civil legislation or native ordinances — like preventing, littering, theft or possessing vaping gadgets — so college officers can nonetheless refer college students to legislation enforcement for crimes. 

The change follows a ProPublica and Chicago Tribune investigation in April 2022, which discovered Illinois college students acquired about 12,000 tickets over the past three years because of colleges referring college students to legislation enforcement. Primarily based on accessible data, ProPublica discovered Black college students had been twice as more likely to be ticketed this fashion as white college students. 

In response to ProPublica and the Tribune’s pupil ticketing database, native legislation enforcement companies reported no ticket referrals from Evanston Township Excessive Faculty District 202 from 2019-2021. 

The invoice has been referred to the Guidelines Committee. 

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