| Title: | Sentencing Policy Advisory Council, Illinois | | Website: | Sentencing Policy Advisory Council | | Contact Name: | Kathy Saltmarsh | | Contact Title: | Executive Director | | Contact Phone: | (217) 558-4749 | | Contact E-Mail: | Kathy.Saltmarsh@Illinois.gov | | Function: | The purpose of the Council is to review sentencing policies and practices and examine how these policies and practices impact the criminal justice system as a whole in the State of Illinois. In carrying out its duties, the Council shall be mindful of and aim to achieve the purposes of sentencing in Illinois,
Duties. The Council shall perform, as resources permit,
duties including:
(1) Collect and analyze information including
sentencing data, crime trends, and existing correctional
resources to support legislative and executive action
affecting the use of correctional resources on the State
and local levels.
(2) Prepare criminal justice population projections
annually, including correctional and community-based
supervision populations.
(3) Analyze data relevant to proposed sentencing
legislation and its effect on current policies or
practices, and provide information to support
evidence-based sentencing.
(4) Ensure that adequate resources and facilities are
available for carrying out sentences imposed on offenders
and that rational priorities are established for the use of
those resources. To do so, the Council shall prepare
criminal justice resource statements, identifying the
fiscal and practical effects of proposed criminal
sentencing legislation, including, but not limited to, the
correctional population, court processes, and county or
local government resources.
(5) Perform such other studies or tasks pertaining to
sentencing policies as may be requested by the Governoror the Illinois General Assembly.
(6) Perform such other functions as may be required by
law or as are necessary to carry out the purposes and goals of the Council prescribed in subsection (b).
Authority.
(1) The Council shall have the power to perform the
functions necessary to carry out its duties, purposes and
goals under this Act. In so doing, the Council shall
utilize information and analysis developed by the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority, the Administrative
Office of the Illinois Courts, and the Illinois Department
of Corrections.
(2) Upon request from the Council, each executive
agency and department of State and local government shall provide information and records to the Council in the
execution of its duties.
(f) Report. The Council shall report in writing annually to
the General Assembly and the Governor.
| | Term: | N/A | | Senate Confirmation: | No | | Party Affiliation: | n/a | | Compensation: | Reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses incurred in their work for the Council | | Composition: | The Council shall consist of the following members: (A) the President of the Senate, or his or her designee; (B) the Minority Leader of the Senate, or his or her designee; (C) the Speaker of the House, or his or her designee; (D) the Minority Leader of the House, or his or her designee; (E) the Governor, or his or her designee; (F) the Attorney General, or his or her designee; (G) two retired judges, who may have been circuit, appellate, or supreme court judges; retired judges shall be selected by the members of the Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L); (H) the Cook County State's Attorney, or his or her designee;
(I) the Cook County Public Defender, or his or her designee; (J) a State's Attorney not from Cook County, appointed by the State's Attorney's Appellate Prosecutor; (K) the State Appellate Defender, or his or her designee; (L) the Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, or his or her designee; (M) a victim of a violent felony or a representative of a crime victims' organization, selected by the members of the Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L); (N) a representative of a community-based organization, selected by the members of the Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L); (O) a criminal justice academic researcher, to be
selected by the members of the Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L); (P) a representative of law enforcement from a
unit of local government to be selected by the members of the Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L); (Q) a sheriff outside of Cook County selected by the members of the Council designated in clauses (c)(1)(A) through (L); and (R) ex-officio members shall include:(i) the Director of Corrections, or his or her designee; (ii) the Chair of the Prisoner Review Board, or his or her designee; (iii) the Director of the Illinois State Police, or his or her designee; (iv) the Director of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, or his or her designee; and (v) the Cook County Sheriff, or his or her designee. | | Chair: | Chair and Vice Chair shall be elected from among its members by a majority of the members of the Council | | Authority: | 730 ILCS 5/5-8-8 |
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