Why did Illinois need to change its current eavesdropping law?
In March of this year, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that portions of Illinois’ eavesdropping law violated free speech and due process protections of the U.S. and Illinois Constitutions.The court found that, while the law was enacted to protect private conversations from being recorded without consent, as written it was far too broad. It made criminals out of people who recorded conversations that were undeniably public, or that nobody intended to be private.