HB 3488

Abstract

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that when a person is charged with a violation of an order of protection or when a person is charged with domestic battery, aggravated domestic battery, kidnapping, aggravated kidnaping, unlawful restraint, aggravated unlawful restraint, stalking, aggravated stalking, cyberstalking, harassment by telephone, harassment through electronic communications, or an attempt to commit first degree murder committed against an intimate partner regardless whether an order of protection has been issued against the person and the court orders the respondent to undergo a risk assessment, a pretrial service agency or probation department shall have access to victim interviews conducted by law enforcement agencies and access for a direct interview of the victim for the purpose of determining bail. Provides that a probation officer shall not have access to any confidential communications protected the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 concerning communications between domestic violence counselors and victims. Provides that prior to any direct interview of a victim by a probation department of pretrial services agency, a victim must be informed of his or her right to decline the interview by the official who is to conduct the interview. Provides that communications between a domestic violence victim and the probation department or pretrial services agency are protected under the Code of Civil Procedure.