{"id":26203,"date":"2025-05-16T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/illinois-house-passes-legislation-requiring-more-thorough-background-checks-for-police-hiring-after-sonya-massey-killing\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:58:10","slug":"illinois-house-passes-legislation-requiring-more-thorough-background-checks-for-police-hiring-after-sonya-massey-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/illinois-house-passes-legislation-requiring-more-thorough-background-checks-for-police-hiring-after-sonya-massey-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois House passes legislation requiring more thorough background checks for police hiring after Sonya Massey killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Illinois House passed legislation on Thursday requiring more thorough background checks before police officers are hired, less than a year after a Sangamon County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy shot and killed Sonya Massey.<\/p>\n<p>Massey was shot and killed last July by former Sangamon County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy Sean Grayson last summer inside her home near Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson has been fired and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sonya-massey-killed-sangamon-county-deputy-sean-grayson-charged-murder-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">charged with first-degree murder in Massey&#8217;s killing<\/a><\/span>, and questions have been raised about why he was hired in the first place, given concerns about his conduct at past police jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sonya-massey-fatal-shooting-deputy-sangamon-county-sheriff\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shot and killed Massey<\/a><\/span> as she was checking on a pot of boiling water in her kitchen while saying &#8220;I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,&#8221; but prosecutors have said Grayson asked her to move the pot off the stove, and that she never posed a danger that justified the use of lethal force.<\/p>\n<p>By a 101-12 vote on Thursday, the Illinois House approved legislation sponsored by state Rep. Kam Buckner (D-Chicago) that would require more comprehensive background checks before hiring police or other law enforcement officers in Illinois. <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement agencies would not be allowed to make a final job offer for police officers without first inspecting all of their prior employment records. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone applying for a police officer job in Illinois would be required to authorize all previous employers, including other law enforcement agencies, to provide full employment records \u2013 including &#8220;duty-related physical and psychological fitness-for-duty examinations; work performance records,&#8221; and any criminal records or records of other investigations connected to their conduct on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Before Grayson was hired in Sangamon County,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sean-grayson-sonya-massey-shooting-illinois-disciplinary-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">questions about his conduct<\/a><\/span>\u00a0were well-documented by other police agencies. But those concerns were somehow never shared with the Sangamon County Sheriff&#8217;s office during the hiring process.<\/p>\n<p>In his fifth police job, he refused to terminate a high-speed chase and drove more than 110 mph \u2014 only coming to an end when he hit a deer. A report from a department where Grayson was employed also said he struggled with report writing and was aggressive in his pursuit for drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just sad that we had to have had a tragedy like this with the Sonya Massey murder to realize that we are doing things wrong,&#8221; said Buckner. &#8220;This is an opportunity to have some checks and some balances and some processes to make sure that we don&#8217;t find ourselves in the same position and situation that we did when Sean Grayson was hired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Massey&#8217;s father, James Wilburn, said he hopes the legislation serves as a model for other states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This legislation in Illinois is a kind of commonsense legislation that will bring the kind of thing that this will never happen to another family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation was passed unanimously by the Illinois Senate last month, and will go to Gov. JB Pritzker&#8217;s desk.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson is <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/sean-grayson-murder-trial-sonya-massey-scheduled-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">scheduled to go on trial in October<\/a><\/span> in Peoria County. 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