The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Illinois; IDFPR Division of Professional Regulation (Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor and Locksmith Board) · Illinois
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- 225 ILCS 447/40-10; EO 2020-10
- Issued
- 2020-03-25 Mar. 25, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-21 (EO 2020-10 effective date) (read as 2020-03-21)
- End
- with EO 2020-10 and its successors (stay-at-home lifted May 29, 2020) (read as 2020-05-29)
- In force
- Mar. 21, 2020 to May 29, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureOther
- Addressees
- private detectives, private alarm contractors, private security contractors, fingerprint vendors, locksmiths, canine handlers, registered armed proprietary security forces and their PERC holders
- Functions reached
- SG security at closed venues (permitted to operate as essential; all other operations of these licensees subject to the order)
- RC fingerprinting vendors (permitted)
- PL placements limited to essential client sites
- Collection
- State trade licensing boards AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS
Operative words
Section 12h of the Governor's Executive Order 2020-10 issued on March 20, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency provides that 'security staff' is a critical trade and an essential business and operation that may continue in operation and is not subject to the stay-at-home directive. The Department deems private detectives, private detective PERCs, private alarm contractors, private alarm contractor PERCs, private security contractors, private security contractor PERCs, fingerprint vendors, canine handlers, locksmiths, locksmith PERCs, and security officers of a registered armed proprietary security force holding active licenses under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor and Locksmith Act to be 'security staff' as referenced in Section 12h of the Executive Order and not subject to the stay-at-home directive.
Enforcement
EO 2020-10 (enforceable by State and local law enforcement under 20 ILCS 3305/7 and /19); licensure under 225 ILCS 447
Notes
The regulator's own construction of the stay-at-home order's reach over its licensees; the designation is the premise of the conditions the order imposed, and the licensees' non-security work (investigations for closed businesses, alarm installation at closed premises) remained governed by the order.