The Anjanette Young Ordinance

Whereas, the Chicago Police Department regularly conducts home invasions on residences as part
of its law enforcement mandate. This practice is commonly referred to as executing “no-knock
warrants” or “knock and announce warrants” which do not actually provide residents with a
reasonable opportunity to answer the door;

Whereas, during these invasions, Chicago Police Department members regularly display a reckless
disregard for the civil and human rights of the Chicago community;

Whereas, the Chicago Police Department conducts home invasions almost exclusively in Black and
Brown communities. The neighborhoods with the most search warrants are Englewood, Austin and
North Lawndale;

Whereas, the Chicago Police Department’s home raids have resulted in CPD members pointing
guns at children; the destruction of property; assaults on human dignity and other forms of violence
and trauma;

Whereas, Chicago Police Department members invaded the home of Ms. Anjanette Young, a social
worker whose residence was wrongfully targeted by the CPD;

Whereas, Chicago Police Department members found Ms. Young completely naked in her home,
handcuffed her (while naked) and ignored her repeated insistence that the members were in the
wrong residence;

Whereas, the City of Chicago attempted to prevent the video depicting CPD members invasion of
Ms. Young’s home from being publicly aired on WBBM-CBS 2;

Whereas, Ms. Young fought valiantly to make public the CPD’s actions and has called for
accountability and an end to the systemic failures that permit the CPD to engage in these abusive
tactics;

Whereas, it must be the highest priority of the Chicago Police Department to respect the sanctity of
all human life and safety of all persons and to ensure that members of the Police Department use
tactics that are least intrusive and harmful to the safety and well-being of all people inside the
home, including but not limited to (1) the Black and Brown individuals and families who have been
disproportionately harmed by the Police Department’s home raid practices, (2) women who have
been assaulted and searched by male officers, and (3) children and vulnerable individuals who have
been interrogated, handcuffed, and held at gunpoint.

Whereas, the Illinois State Legislature has attempted to protect Illinois communities from the
dangers of arbitrary and violent no-knock warrants by prohibiting police officers from executing a
no-knock warrant without first seeking judicial approval for this tactic;
Whereas, given the Chicago Police Department’s well documented history of using unlawful and
violent force against Chicago’s Black and Brown communities, the provisions of Illinois State Law
are insufficient to protect Chicago’s communities from the Chicago Police Department’s violent use
of no-knock warrants and abuse of knock and announce warrants;

Whereas, The Chicago City Council has the power to provide its constituencies with protections
that exceed those codified in state law;

Whereas, the affidavit requirement in the Uniform Peace Officers’ Disciplinary Act (50 ILCS
725/3.8(b)), incorporated into police collective bargaining agreements in Chicago, has operated to
discourage thousands of people who have been abused by Chicago police officers from bringing
misconduct complaints and has resulted in the dismissal of far more than half of Chicago police
misconduct complaints without a full investigation (allowing countless instances of CPD abuse to go
uninvestigated and unchecked);

Whereas, the Illinois legislature has repealed the affidavit requirement in the Uniform Peace
Officers’ Disciplinary Act, and expressly banned any affidavit requirement in collective bargaining
agreements entered after the effective date of the legislation;

THEREFORE, it shall therefore be ordained that:

1) No Chicago Police Department member shall execute a no-knock warrant and no Chicago
Police Department member shall seek from any Court a warrant authorizing a member executing the
warrant to make entry into a residence without first knocking, announcing his or her office, and
giving the occupants a reasonable amount of time, no less than 30 seconds, to respond.

2) When conducting any law enforcement activity, including, but not limited to the execution
of residential warrants, Chicago Police Department members are required to use tactics that are the
least intrusive to people’s home, property and person and least harmful to people’s physical and
emotional health. When developing and executing tactics, the Chicago Police Department must
implement measures to protect individuals’ dignity interests, privacy interests and property interests
and must take measures required to protect people from physical and emotional harm. Every
planned execution of a residential warrant must contain a detailed explanation regarding how the
planned action meets this least intrusive, least harmful standard, including a plan for children and
other vulnerable people, including people with disabilities, who may be on-site. The Superintendent
(or the Superintendent’s designee—who must have a rank of at least First Deputy Superintendent,
Chief, Deputy Chief, or Commander)—must approve each plan prior to execution.

3) The Chicago Police Department shall record and publish data about each residential warrant
executed by the CPD, including the location of the warrant, the force used during the warrant’s
execution; any allegations of police misconduct or excessive force during the execution of the
warrant, including the names, badge numbers, and units of assignment of the accused officers; the
race, gender and age of every individual present inside the residence during the execution of the
warrant; the use of handcuffs or any other type of restraint during the execution of the warrant; the
presence of any children during the execution of the warrant; the recovery of any contraband; any
arrests; and whether the warrant was a negative warrant (a warrant which did not result in the arrest
of the target of the warrant or recovery of contraband or evidence identified in the warrant). The
Chicago Police Department shall refer every negative warrant to COPA for investigation. After
every negative warrant, the Superintendent shall provide the public with a written explanation
describing the causes of the negative raid.

4) No Chicago Police Department member shall seek a warrant relying solely on an informant’s
representation, but instead must supplement with independent investigation and reasonable
surveillance to corroborate the information and ascertain that the target of the warrant is present at
the location of the warrant’s execution. The member seeking application for a search warrant must
describe in the application what they did to corroborate the informant’s representations and the
results of their independent investigation, including any observations that tended to corroborate or
contradict the informant’s representations.

5) The credibility of informants must be assessed; if an informant has given information that
led to a negative warrant in the past, CPD must not rely on that information when seeking judicial
authorization for a search warrant.

6) No Chicago Police Department member shall seek a warrant without first receiving
supervisory approval; the designated unit supervisor, the rank of lieutenant or above, shall ensure
that the member relying upon information from an informant has undergone adequate independent
surveillance to corroborate the information provided by the informant with at least one additional
non-informant source, prior to seeking judicial authorization for a search warrant.

7) Search warrants must be executed in a manner to ensure that people inside a residence may
be searched only by officers of their preferred gender identity. The Chicago Police Department shall
ensure that there is at least one member who does not identify as male (including at least one
woman) present from the time of initial entry during the execution of each residential search
warrant. All officers executing the warrant must be dressed in their official Chicago Police
Department uniforms.

8) No planned law enforcement action, including, but not limited to the execution of warrants
can occur unless Chicago Police Department members have taken all available measures to avoid
executing the warrant when children (for the purposes of this Ordinance a child will be considered
anyone who appears to be 16 years of age or younger) are present.

9) The execution of all residential search warrants must be conducted between 9:00 am and
7:00 pm, absent verifiable exigent circumstances.

10) If children are present during a planned law enforcement action, Chicago Police Department
members must call dispatch and inform operators about the presence of children.

11) During the execution of a warrant, Chicago Police Department members are prohibited
from pointing firearms at, handcuffing or restraining children.
12) During the execution of a warrant, Chicago Police Department members are prohibited
from pointing firearms at, handcuffing or restraining parents; relatives or caregivers of children
while in the presence of children.

13) Chicago Police Department members are prohibited from pointing firearms at any person
unless the person presents an imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person.

14) During the execution of a warrant, Chicago Police Department members are prohibited
from interrogating or questioning children, barring exceptional circumstances when limited
questions are necessary to protect people in the home from an immediate threat of physical harm.

15) During the execution of a warrant, Chicago Police Department members must take all
available measures to avoid any damage or destruction to property or possessions of the place of the
warrant’s execution.

16) Chicago Police Department members who execute a residential warrant must prepare a
damage report before leaving the home, which documents all property that the members damaged.
Members must secure the home before leaving, and make immediate arrangements to repair any
damage that poses a threat to the safety of the residents, including but not limited to doors,
windows, and appliances and to ensure that any such threats to the safety of the residents are
remedied within four hours of the members’ concluding the execution of the warrant. In addition,
members must work with the residents to make arrangements for the prompt repair or replacement
of any other damaged property, or to reimburse residents for the same.

17) All Chicago Police Department members who execute a warrant must wear and activate
their body camera during the entire execution.

18) The Chicago Police Department shall permanently retain all video and audio recordings of
the execution of residential search warrants. Upon receipt of a request from any person or their
representative whose residence or person is depicted in video footage in the custody or control of
the City of Chicago, relating to an encounter with members of the Chicago Police Department, the
City must produce a copy of all the footage unredacted within two days.

19) For every warrant execution, the Superintendent (or the Superintendent’s designee—who
must have a rank of at least First Deputy Superintendent, Chief, Deputy Chief, or Commander)—
will review all relevant evidence, including video footage, warrant applications and incident reports
to ensure compliance with this ordinance. In the event that the Superintendent or their designee has
a reasonable suspicion that any Chicago Police Department member violated any provision of this
act, the Superintendent will immediately strip that member of their police powers and refer the
member for further disciplinary proceedings, during which the member may be subject to
termination.

20) No Affidavit, Sworn Testimony or Statement shall be required to initiate an investigation