Springfield-The Senate Committee applied on Wednesday a measure aimed at reducing the conditions through which tenants can be expelled due to local “crime-free” decrees.
This procedure was supported by housing defenders who have argued that crime -free decrees were used to expel people in cases where the actual residents of the homes concerned committed trivial crimes or no crimes at all. However, law enforcement groups and municipality have responded that limiting the local authority in imposing crime or inconvenience decrees would take away policies that can be used to stimulate neighborhoods.
The Senate Executive Committee approved the Senate Bill 2264 on Wednesday, which depends on crime -free housing policies after a modern investigation from the Illinois and New York Times draft. It found that there are more than 2000 cases in 25 cities in Illinois, where crime -free housing decrees were applied from 2019 to 2024, with about 500 of those cases that involve evacuation operations.
The investigation found that only a third of these 2000 violations were for serious crimes such as drugs' charges or felony convicts. Another is approximately 1300 violations due to misdemeanors or non -criminal crimes, “many of them have not been followed up by the plaintiffs,” according to reports.
Crime -free housing ceremonies in the Illinois municipality began to appear in the early 1990s attempts to remove violent criminals, drug dealers and alleged rented tenants who often bother their neighbors in rental properties. While local decrees were used to achieve these goals, defenders say they are sometimes harmful to apply to people who are not even accused of crimes and less condemnation.
In recent years, many cities have imposed laws strongly so that any tenants are used in contact with law enforcement as a reason to end violations against tenants, according to news reports. This includes the evacuation of the tenants who contacted the police to ask for help, which led to the payment of housing defenders to pay the new bill.
In 2015, Illinois lawmakers passed a law prohibiting the use of decrees to expel the victims of domestic violence. At that time, some cities were calculated by invitations to the police who were victims of domestic violence as inconvenience calls, which led to the evacuation of the victims, Chicago Tribune said.
If it is yearned, SB 2264 will grant municipalities to punish tenants for his invitation to the police to seek help from law enforcement officers. It will also prohibit the inconvenience and crime -free ceremonies from its application to the tenants who do not accuse themselves of crimes and will prevent the decrees from applying it to the tenants based on those who link it, unless the association itself is a crime.
Any municipality that imposes crime -free housing policies must employ a crime -free housing coordinator, which will deal with cases in which law enforcement is informed of the owner that the tenant must be expelled. The coordinator will review the cases and decide whether the tenant procedure requires evacuation.
The tenants will be granted the right to challenge enforcement procedures in the court’s court, and the municipalities will be asked to establish a session for those who face enforcement procedures.
Springfield police chiefs, Springfield police chief Springfield, Springfield police chief Springfield, described Springfield police, crime -free housing laws as a “usual tool for crime.” His organization opposed the measure, which only passed with democratic support.
“When used properly, it can be a revitalization tool,” he said.
The disputed Michael Bansky, director of the crime association in Illinois, in allegations that the ceremonies are excessive to use.
He said in the committee: “The families do not replace the positions of domestic violence, for excessive invitations to the police to come there.” “Reducing the inconvenience is completely separate. Often in a municipality, both are dealt with by the same officer or the same section, but they are actually separate.”
This procedure still needs approval from the full parliament and the Senate before he went to the ruler to consider it.
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