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50 ILCS 706/10-30 (2026)

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(50 ILCS 706/10-30)
    Sec. 10-30. Evidence. The recordings may be used as evidence in any administrative, judicial, legislative, or disciplinary proceeding. If a court or other finder of fact finds by a preponderance of the evidence that a recording was intentionally not captured, destroyed, altered, or intermittently captured in violation of this Act, then the court or other finder of fact shall consider or be instructed to consider that violation in weighing the evidence, unless the State provides a reasonable justification.
(Source: P.A. 99-352, eff. 1-1-16.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases (7 in the last 5 years), 2020–2026 · leading case: People v. Tompkins, 2023 IL 127805 (Ill. 2023).
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People v. Tompkins, 2023 IL 127805 (Ill. 2023). · cites it 4× “On appeal, he argues that the Cook County circuit court erred in declining to give the jury a non-Illinois Pattern Jury Instruction (non-IPI) pursuant to section 10-30 of the Law Enforcement Officer-Worn Body Camera Act (Act) (50 ILCS 706/10-30 (West 2018)) and admitting body…”
People v. Collins, 2022 IL 127584 (Ill. 2022). “¶ 22 (quoting 50 ILCS 706/10-30 (West 2016)). The appellate court found that “the word ‘may’ permits trial courts to exclude body-worn camera recordings where appropriate.”
People v. Collins, 2020 IL App (1st) 181746 (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). · cites it 4× “” 50 ILCS 706/10-30 (West 2016). We see two features of the statutory text showing that the General Assembly did not intend limitless admission of body-worn camera video.”
People v. Washington, 2022 IL App (1st) 200638-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “” 50 ILCS 706/10-30 (West 2018). However, the Act does not except body-worn camera footage from the hearsay rule.”
People v. Brown, 2022 IL App (5th) 190124-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “” 50 ILCS 706/10-30 (West 2016). In People v.”
People v. Nichols, 2023 IL App (1st) 221391-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2023). “4 We note that the State briefly argues that the body camera recording may be admissible because the Law Enforcement Officer-Worn Body Camera Act (50 ILCS 706/10-30 (West 2018)) can be read to require that body camera recordings always be admissible, but because the video here…”
City of Naperville v. Penick, 2026 IL App (3d) 250217-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2026). “See 50 ILCS 706/10-30 (West 2024). Police reports generally are not admissible.”
People v. Dunn, 2023 IL App (1st) 220675-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2023). “” 50 ILCS 706/10-30 (West 2020). The General Assembly also created and imposed an evidentiary rule which states that the failure of a police officer to use his bodycam in a manner consistent with the Act, if intentional, can be considered by the fact finder when weighing the…”
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