Illinois Administrative Code › Title 20 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Part 1780 - COURT SECURITY BASIC TRAINING › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 1780.102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The terms used in this Part are defined in Section 2 of the
				  Illinois Police Training Act. Additionally, the following terms are defined for
				  purposes of this Part:
"Act" means the Illinois Police Training Act [50 ILCS 705
				  ].
"Board" means the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and
				  Standards Board.
"Course" means the course of study identified by the Board
				  pursuant to Section
				  1780.203
				  as the Basic Court Security Course for Court Security Officers.
"Course Coordinator" means the person or entity responsible
				  for offering the Basic Court Security Course for Court Security
				  Officers.
"Course Roster" means the form listing the names of all
				  probationary and permanent Court Security Officers completing the requirements
				  of a course approved by the Board under this Part. The information required on
				  a course roster form is the Court Security Officer's name, date of appointment,
				  department, employment status and social security number and the name of the
				  course and the date of course completion.
"Court Security Officer" is a person hired under the
				  following statute: The sheriff of any county in Illinois with less than
				  3,000,000 inhabitants may hire court security officers in such number as the
				  county board shall from time to time deem necessary. Court security officers
				  may be designated by the Sheriff to attend courts and perform the functions set
				  forth in Section 3-6023. Court security officers shall have the authority to
				  arrest; however, such arrest powers shall be limited to performance of their
				  official duties as court security officers. Court security officers may carry
				  weapons, upon which they have been trained and qualified as permitted by law,
				  at their place of employment and to and from their place of employment with the
				  consent of the Sheriff. The court security officers shall be sworn officers of
				  the Sheriff and shall be primarily responsible for the security of the
				  courthouse and its courtrooms. The court security officers shall be under the
				  sole control of the sheriff of the county in which they are hired. If a county
				  has a Sheriff's Merit Commission, court security officers shall be subject to
				  its jurisdiction for disciplinary purposes. They are not regular appointed
				  deputies under Section 3-6008. The position of court security officer shall not
				  be considered a rank when seeking initial appointment as deputy sheriff under
				  Section 3-8011. Every court security officer hired on or after June 1, 1997
				  shall serve a probationary period of 12 months during which time they may be
				  discharged at the will of the Sheriff. [55 ILCS
				  5/3-6012.1]
"Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the
				  Board.
"Full-time Court Security Officer" means one who is employed
				  at least 35 hours a week as a Court Security Officer on a regular basis.
"Permanent Court Security Officer" means a court security
				  officer who has completed his or her probationary period and is employed as a
				  court security officer by a participating local governmental unit.
"Probationary Court Security Officer" means a recruit court
				  security officer required to successfully complete initial minimum basic
				  training requirements at a designated training school to be eligible for
				  employment as a court security officer.
"Trainee" means a probationary Court Security Officer who is
				  receiving the training prescribed by Subpart B.