Citing a request to protect the civil rights of students in another Trump administration, Illinois MPs filed a new bill on Monday, which clearly clearly gave tickets to the school police for abuse and fined students for students for abuse Will stop it in the form.
For the first time also the law will also require districts to track police activity in schools and disclosure to the state – data collection puts more pressure by federal officials that they have indicated that they end their role in enforcement of civil rights. Will give
A 2022 Tribune-Publice Investigation, “The Price Kids Pay,” found that even though Illinois Law officials banned the school officials from paying fine directly to the students, the districts have issued quotation to violate local ordinances. Skirt the law by calling the police. It was also found that black students were doubled the possibility of giving tickets in school compared to their white peers.
After the news investigation, the Governor, State Superintendent and MPs urged the schools to stop the practice, but the legislative efforts came to a standstill. The bill presented at Illinois House on Monday takes a new approach to abolish the police ticket in schools that the police can arrest students for crime or violence, but they do not have a ticket to violate local ordinances to students Can give, which contains several types of violations, including volatile, disorganized. Conduct, Truancy and other behavior.
This difference in previous versions of the law was not clear, which caused concerns that the schools would not be able to include the police in serious cases – and there was an important reason on ticketing the law. Tickets, which are issued for citizen violations of local laws, are often postponed in administrative hearing where students usually do not get legal representation.
Rape La Sean Ford, the chief sponsor of a Chicago’s Democrat and Bill, said that giving tickets to students for vepping is an example of how the current policies are failing. He said that it is important that the school should disclose the district of what kind of police talks are being done to monitor civil rights violations and other concerns.
“We definitely need to ensure what we believe in the law. We cannot determine our morality to Trump policies, ”Ford said. “Our schools should have a place where we protect students from the school-to-procedure pipeline, period.”
Many advocacy groups, which are drafting the law along with the Illinois State Board of Education, say that the strong, more accurate version of the law is the new energy behind the new energy that he failed failed in 2023 and 2024 legislative sessions. Gave.
The earlier bills never got full vote in the chamber. Illinois Association of the Chiefs of Police was one of those who were objecting to bills due to the possibility of limiting police reactions to criminal activity.
The Vice President of the Chiefs Association, Patrick Cress, said that the group is in favor of the police, such as students remain out of disciplinary cases such as Truxy and Waping. He has not yet seen the new bills, but said that the group will work with MPs and advocates “to see if there is a way to do this work where we can still do this work and the underlying concern Can appreciate. ”
Amy Galvin with a stand for children, an Illinois non -profit organization that pushes for education equity and racial justice, said that the districts ensure the involvement of the track police. “Trump proofing” is a method of civil rights of students. .
“We would like to see this data in Illinois,” Galvin said. “If the policy (US Education Department) turns, we will lose all the data about how the school is interacting with law enforcement, and it is really related to us.”
Over the years, the Civil Rights Division of the US Education Department has collected comprehensive information about how many times the police join the students and how often the students are arrested. President Donald Trump has said that he wants to destroy the department, and it is not clear what effect the civil rights data collection will be. And the federal government has never monitored student tickets.
Another bill which is aimed at curbing police activity in schools is expected to be filed in the Senate on Tuesday. Although it will also aim to eliminate ticketing, it is likely that it will take the school administrators from calling from the police to write tickets as a disciplinary result and take a different approach compared to the version of the house. This will refer to the schools to issue a fine to the Trunt students or their parents.
Kareena Villa, a Democrat from West Chicago, Ford and Senate sponsor Kareena Villa, said that they expect to be attracted to the debate about both bills to earn widespread support and refine the final version of the law.
After “Price Kids Pay” investigation, improvement and efforts have been made in the improvement, including a state Attorney General inquiry, which confirmed that the state administrator was the state to give tickets to the police to give tickets to the students. He was exploiting a flaws in the law. The investigation found that a large suburban Chicago district broke the law when it instructed the police to the exact students and the practice impressed black and latitian students. The state’s top legal rights declared the practice illegal and said it should be stopped.
But the House of the new law and the Senate sponsors said that without it, the practice would continue. Records suggest that the school-based police have given tickets to students in high schools of Kankeke County in eastern part of the state, several for violating as monmouth tobacco near Western border with East Pieria in Central Illinois and last year with Iowa. For types of violations, fighting or drinking alcohol.
In a city, students received fines as $ 450 for the possession of the cannabis; In the second, Trucy Fines for dozens of students and their families is being sent to the collection.
Villa said about the schools where students get tickets, “they should not pay penalty to families and do not instruct students to issue tickets.” “Our bill is to prevent practice.”
Other state leaders have also said that they want to eliminate the practice of giving tickets to students in the school, which includes the village JB Pritjkar and State School Superintendent, Tony Sanders. The Illinois State Board of Education stopped students from being given tickets in school as one of the legislative priorities of this session in December.
Board spokesman Jackie Mathews said that it is necessary to change the law “especially due to uneven effect on the color of this practice.”
“We are continue to work with stakeholders and MPs to reach a solution for the safety of students,” he said.