Illinois
Every law and rule change USCLI tracks for Illinois, across the professions, on one page. Each entry links to its full write-up and official sources.
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Licensing Law Tracker
Private detectives in Illinois are licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004.
Full Illinois page: every change, its sources, and what has not changed (5 entries).
Technical revisions to training sections
The First 2026 General Revisory Act made technical and stylistic corrections to the alarm contractor and security contractor training sections (225 ILCS 447/20-20 and 25-20). It states that it is not intended to make any substantive change in the law.
Licensing board reduced to 11 members
Amends 225 ILCS 447/50-10. The board drops from 13 to 11 members by removing one locksmith seat and the seat for a licensee who provides canine odor detection services. Licensed members will need 3 years of experience instead of 5. The two private…
LEOSA credentials valid for three years
IDFPR states that LEOSA credentials issued in Illinois are now valid for three years from the date of last issuance. We found no matching amendment to 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1240.
Applications move to the CORE online system
IDFPR launched CORE, its online licensing system. New private detective applications are filed there.
Act extended to 2029; email address of record required
Moved the Act’s repeal date from January 1, 2024 to January 1, 2029. Added a required email address of record, removed the pre-2005 canine odor detection grandfather provisions, and updated provisions on applications, hearings, subpoenas, and the board.
Officer Certification Tracker
Illinois certifies and decertifies officers through the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board (ILETSB), with automatic decertification for listed crimes and Board decertification for misconduct. Since 2023 the Board has adopted rules for activating certification and for decertification hearings, and the State has required prior employers to hand over an officer’s full employment records before a new agency hires.
Full Illinois page: every change, its sources, and what has not changed (9 entries).
Prior employers must hand over full records before a hire
New 705/6.5: no agency may make a final offer to a full-time, part-time, or probationary officer without a signed release directing every prior employer to produce all employment records. These include background materials, fitness-for-duty exams,…
Trauma-informed training added to the 3-year in-service
Adds “trauma-informed programs, procedures, and practices meant to minimize traumatization of the victim” to the 30-hour, 3-year in-service under 705/7(g), and adds a trauma-informed block to the basic curriculum. The hours do not change.
Labor Relations Board repeals its decertification rules
The Illinois Labor Relations Board repealed Part 1240, “Police Officer Decertification Proceedings,” “because amendments to the Illinois Police Training Act have transferred these proceedings to the Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board.”
Decertification hearing rules adopted
Sets procedure for hearings on discretionary decertification, denied reactivations, and emergency suspensions under 705/6.3(h), 8.1(b), 8.2(b), and 8.3(c). An administrative law judge hears the case; remote proceedings are allowed, and formal hearings are…
Autism-informed training added to the 3-year in-service
Adds “autism-informed law enforcement responses, techniques, and procedures” to the 30-hour, 3-year in-service under 705/7(g). The hours do not change.
Forensic Science Tracker
Illinois has an advisory Forensic Science Commission inside the State Police, but no analyst license and no general lab accreditation statute. Since 2023 the State has limited facial recognition on police drones, tied the Commission’s reporting duty to ISO 17025 accreditation, kept crime victims’ DNA profiles out of DNA databases, set lab deadlines for missing persons DNA, and widened certificates of innocence.
Full Illinois page: every change, its sources, and what has not changed (7 entries).
Certificates of innocence for juveniles and non-prison sentences
735 ILCS 5/2-702 now covers people convicted “or adjudicated a delinquent” who served any part of a sentence in a State prison, county jail, county juvenile detention facility, or Illinois Youth Center, on parole or probation, or as a registered sex…
Lab deadlines for missing persons and unidentified remains DNA
The Missing Persons Identification Act was rewritten. Police must enter a missing person report in LEADS immediately, try to collect DNA samples from family members, and send them to an accredited CODIS lab within 90 days of the report. State Police labs…
Commission chair serves a 2-year term
Beginning January 1, 2026, the Governor names the chair of the Forensic Science Commission for a 2-year term (20 ILCS 2605/2605-615).
Crime victims’ DNA kept out of DNA databases
New 725 ILCS 120/4(a)(1.6) says that when a person’s DNA profile is collected because they are a crime victim, that profile “shall not be entered into any DNA database.” Exceptions are Section 9.5 of the Criminal Identification Act and Section 3-3013 of…
Commission duties tied to ISO 17025 accreditation; State Police examine digital evidence
The act inserts “ISO 17025 accredited” into 2605-615 in three places: the Commission’s review of non-conformities, the lab director seats, and the annual duty to report non-conformities. It also adds “and examine digital evidence” to the duties of the…
Last updated October 19, 2026Source: United States Council for Law & Investigation