The full LaSalle County Board may yet send a letter to the General Assembly asking to reform the police reform act. The law’s opponents say it’ll be too easy to file complaints about police officers without them knowing who’s accusing them. Police are concerned about criminals being let out without bail and not always being able to arrest people who commit crimes.
Retired sheriff Tom Templeton talked about it with the County Board Committee on Appontments, Legislation, and Rules Monday.
Marseilles Mayor Jim Hollenbeck says the law makes it too easy to make a police officer pay for alleged wrongdoing without a fair hearing—without even knowing who’s complaining.
At the last full County Board meeting, member Brian Dose said it’s worth keeping training and certification, the ban on sex offenders from being police, and providing mental health support for police. At yesterday’s committee meeting, Templeton said he wants the legislature to give the law the hearing it didn’t get when it was passed in a rush in the middle of the night. The resolution urging a change at the state level will go back to the LaSalle County Board.