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While the bill’s proponents are hopeful that it will be well-received, some have expressed concern that the revised eavesContinued from PG. 35 Continued from PG. 35 dropping law may hinder police officers from doing their job. on the books and do so cost effectively,” said the Constitution. House Representative Jil Tracy (R-93rd), Ken Humphreys, CEO of FutureGen, during “It’s a very important decision, but it’s who is on the Civil Law Committee reviewa March 6 presentation before the Illinois the only beginning of a continuous fight ing the bill, advised that “you just want to Chamber of Commerce. to change this law,” Drew said. “The debate make sure that the public is allowing the Humphreys said the project, which is over what to do about this law is really just police officer to conduct his duties without under review by the ICC, would cost an beginning to rage.” concern” that citizens trying to record will estimated $1.3 billion. While the Chamber Illinois is one of few states that does not get in the officer’s way. must decide whether to implement the embrace one-party consent, which requires Although she expressed concern plan, Humphreys said he hopes the project only one member of about possible conwill be under construction by 2014. the conversation to sequences of repealAlthough Breuer agrees that exploring give permission to be ing the law, Tracy new technologies is at the forefront of crerecorded, but rather maintained that the ating a cleaner atmosphere, he does not requires all members eavesdropping statute believe clean coal power is the right solution. to consent. “needs to be revisited,” The current law is as she believes the cur“We’re very concerned about purifying kfowler@chroniclemail.com However, House Bill 3944, currently under not constitutional and it is our rent punishment is review by the Illinois responsibility to fix that.” too harsh. House of RepresentaUnder the protives, aims to elimiposed revisions to the nate those consent eavesdropping law, restrictions when it recording public inter–Daniel Biss comes to recording actions with police on-duty police officers would no longer be a in public. punishable offense. “The current law is Representative not constitutional and it is our responsibil- Dwight Kay (R-112th), another co-sponity to fix that,” said House Representative sor of the bill, said the law in its curDaniel Biss (D-17th), a co-sponsor of the bill. rent state is unnecessarily severe but “The notion that it’s illegal to audio record for a different reason: He believes the [or] videotape a police officer in a public law allows the Constitution to work place does not make sense.” against itself. A floor debate must take place before “[The ability to record police officers] the House of Representatives votes on the happens to be a basic fundamental right,” bill. This will happen after all committee Kay said. “We shouldn’t deny First Amendmembers have reviewed the bill, accord- ment rights using the Fourth Amendment File photo ing to Biss. If it is passed by a majority to do it.” Activists gather outside the Fisk Station, 1111 W. Cermak Road, April 20, 2011, demanding that the Pilsen vote, it will move on to the Senate, where it will undergo a similar process, he said. kfowler@chroniclemail.com coal power facility be shut down.
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carbon and then trying to store it some where,” he said. “What hasn’t been addressed is what happens if there is a leak. Pure carbon dioxide is absolutely a deadly gas.” Breuer said he believes that embracing other power alternatives like wind or geothermal methods would be a better way to allocate the funding that would otherwise go toward implementing FutureGen and similar coal power technologies. “Coal as a technology is a very old [process] that shouldn’t be around as a means of generating electricity,” Breuer said. “We think it’s just a terrible waste of money. It would be much more efficient use of taxpayers’ dollars to just invest straight in the clean alternatives.”
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