(70 ILCS 3615/2.11.20)
    (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)
    Sec. 2.11.20. Coordinated Safety Response Council.
    (a) The Office of Transit Safety and Experience shall create a standing Coordinated Safety Response Council to facilitate collaboration and synchronization among government agencies and nongovernmental agencies to address safety issues and social service needs for individuals working or riding on public transportations in the metropolitan region.
    (b) The Office of Transit Safety and Experience shall invite organizations to be members of the Coordinated Safety Response Council. Membership may include major law enforcement agencies and social service providers in the area served by the transit system. Membership shall include, at minimum, staff representing:
        (1) the Authority's Chief Transit Safety Officer;
        (2) each Service Board;
        (3) the Chair of the Riders Advisory Council;
        (4) the Chair of the ADA Advisory Council;
        (5) the Cook County State's Attorney's Office;
        (6) the Cook County Sheriff's Office;
        (7) the highest ranking officer of the NITA Law
    
Enforcement Task Force;
        (8) law enforcement agencies whose jurisdiction
    
includes transit facilities operated by the Authority;
        (9) the Chicago Police Department;
        (10) the Chicago Department of Family and Support
    
Services;
        (11) representatives of the labor organizations
    
representing bus and train operators for the Chicago Transit Authority;
        (12) a representative from an organization currently
    
providing alternative behavioral health, mobile crisis response;
        (13) a representative from an organization
    
participating in implementation of the Community Emergency Services and Supports Act;
        (14) representatives from community-based
    
organizations serving youth, people with disabilities, or individuals experiencing homelessness;
        (15) a representative from the Department of Human
    
Services; and
        (16) a representative from a labor organization
    
representing bus and train operators for the Commuter Rail Division.
    (c) Within 9 months of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly, the Coordinated Safety Response Council shall issue a report on using sworn law enforcement officers to respond to crime on public transportation in the metropolitan region, which shall include:
        (1) an assessment of the feasibility, advisability,
    
and necessity of various strategies to use sworn law enforcement officers to respond to crime on public transportation in the metropolitan region; and
        (2) the qualifications, composition, training,
    
requirements, strategies, roles, and accountability measures, policies, and procedures necessary to implement the outlined strategies.
    (d) In evaluating the feasibility, advisability, and necessity of various strategies to use sworn law enforcement to respond to crime on public transportation, the Coordinated Safety Response Council shall consider:
        (1) data, outcomes, and recommendations from the NITA
    
Law Enforcement Task Force;
        (2) in a holistic manner, the Authority's safety
    
systems and programs, including the transit ambassador program, safety, surveillance, and communication technologies, infrastructure investments, and external partnerships and contracts and investments;
        (3) the costs and risks associated with the various
    
strategies; and
        (4) making a recommendation on the optimal strategy
    
to use law enforcement to respond to crime on public transportation in the metropolitan region.
    (e) The Coordinated Safety Response Council shall be responsible for developing an incident response and long-term safety strategy, including, at minimum:
        (1) the appropriate responses, including sworn law
    
enforcement and social services, for different kinds of safety or code of conduct incidents on public transportation in the region;
        (2) the organization responsible for deploying
    
resources to provide the identified responses based on incident location and circumstances;
        (3) the agreements, contracts, or communication
    
protocols needed for the identified organizations to implement the incident response strategy; and
        (4) the protocols necessary to address
    
multijurisdictional participation in the NITA Law Enforcement Task Force and any future multijurisdictional collaborations, including:
            (A) addressing legal questions of jurisdictional
        
authority;
            (B) creating consistent use of force standards;
            (C) promoting consistent training across the
        
multiple law enforcement entities participating in the NITA Law Enforcement Task Force; and
            (D) clarifying the ordinance authority held by
        
Chicago Transit Authority to allow multiple jurisdictions to lawfully participate in the NITA Law Enforcement Task Force.
    (f) The incident response and long-term safety strategy shall consider actions and outcomes achievable given a baseline annual funding level of $95,000,000 from the Authority and a baseline level of spending by each local law enforcement agency participating in the council that is no less than that agency's spending relating to public transportation in Fiscal Year 2025.
    (g) The Coordinated Safety Response Council shall complete a comprehensive review and evaluation of the incident response and long-term safety strategy no less than once every 3 years. The Coordinated Safety Response Council shall update the incident response and long-term safety strategy as it finds necessary in its evaluation.
    (h) Members of the Coordinated Safety Response Council shall, at a minimum, receive or show proof that they have previously received training that is adequate in quality, quantity, scope, and type, on the following topics:
        (1) constitutional and other relevant law on
    
police-community encounters, including the law on the use of force and stops, searches, and arrests;
        (2) police tactics, including de-escalation;
        (3) impartial policing;
        (4) policing individuals in crisis;
        (5) procedural justice; and
        (6) cultural competency, including implicit bias and
    
racial and ethnic sensitivity.
    (i) The Authority shall implement the recommendations of the Coordinated Safety Response Council in a permanent long-term safety plan as soon as possible after the completion of each report.
    (j) The Coordinated Safety Response Council shall study the current use of nongovernmental agencies that provide outreach and assistance to riders that (i) are unhoused, (ii) suffer from mental health issues, or (iii) otherwise may benefit from social services. Within 12 months of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly, the Coordinated Safety Response Council shall issue a report, which shall include, at a minimum:
        (1) an analysis of the cost and effect of these
    
programs on the population the programs serve and the broader effect the programs have on users of the system;
        (2) any recommendations for changes or improvements
    
to existing programs;
        (3) strategies and best practices to expand and
    
improve these programs throughout the Service Boards; and
        (4) the qualifications, composition, training,
    
requirements, strategies, roles, and accountability measures, policies, and procedures necessary to implement the outlined recommendations.
(Source: P.A. 104-457, eff. 6-1-26.)