New Law Expands Optional Use Of Cameras In Long-Term Care Facilities

Gov. Pritzker signs new law expanding optional use of cameras in long-term care facilities – WAND (Decatur)

Under current state law, nursing home residents can install an electronic monitoring device in their room at their own expense as long as the roommate agrees to having the device in the room Consent can be revoked at any time. The newly signed bill extends those protections to more than 28,600 residents of assisted living and shared housing communities.

New Law Expands Optional Use Of Cameras In Long-Term Care Facilities

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a measure allowing residents of assisted living and shared housing establishments to exercise the right to use electronic monitoring, meant to enhance transparency and resident safety. A similar law allowing cameras in residents’ rooms in nursing homes has existed in Illinois since 2016. “This new law allows assisted living residents to install a video and/or audio recording device in their room, allowin…

New law expands optional use of cameras in long-term care facilities | Illinois State Bar Association

New law expands optional use of cameras in long-term care facilitiesGov. JB Pritzker has signed a measure allowing residents of assisted living and shared housing establishments to exercise the right to use electronic monitoring, meant to enhance transparency and resident safety. Source: WJBD