Sources, Methodology & Integrity

The 953 displayed offense records were extracted from the Illinois Secretary of State Police Offense Code Index dated February 2024. The government publication is the source; this website is an independent, non-endorsed presentation of selected contents.

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• • Primary Source Authority: The state government PDF is the authoritative document.
• • Direct Page Links: Every search card provides a direct link to the exact source PDF page.

The site provides browser-based text matching over extracted descriptions and codes. Search output represents possible source matches, not legal relevance or a recommended offense. Each record links to its exact page in the source publication.

A versioned manifest records the source URL, retrieval and publication dates, extraction version, corpus checksum, record count, page-mapping checks, and review dates. The original PDF artifact checksum has not been independently verified; users should compare any consequential result with the linked official publication.

• • Deterministic Token Scoring: Matches are computed mathematically without hallucination.
• • Manifest Versioning: Provenance tracked across extraction versions and page ranges.

The February 2024 publication may be incomplete, superseded, or inconsistent with later statutes, rules, cases, or agency practices. Verify the current ILCS, authoritative source material, and agency policy before citation or operational use.

• • Legislative Change Warning: Illinois statutes are subject to continuous legislative amendments.
• • ILGA Citation Cross-Reference: Links provided directly to the General Assembly statutes.

The owner chose to present factual codes and descriptions from the publicly available government publication under release record OWNER-ATTESTATION-SOURCE-2026-08-10. No written source-reuse permission or external legal opinion was obtained. No State seal or government mark is used, and no government endorsement is claimed.

Operated by the Independent Illinois Offense Code Reference project. Owner-reviewed August 10, 2026.

• • Factual Public Record: Factual statutory data presented without copyright claim to public law.
• • Owner Attestation: Validated under approved release governance reference OWNER-ATTESTATION-SOURCE-2026-08-10.