Audit: ISP not following law in processing ID for legal gun buyers - Yahoo News

An Auditor General review of the Illinois State Police’s handling of Firearm Owner’s Identification Card and Concealed Carry License applications shows ISP is not following the law.

The audit was for 2018 and 2019. Even before the pandemic, there were delays in applications being processed in the timeframe allowed by law. Delays impacted around 1 in 10 applicants in 2018 and increased to about 1 in 4 in 2019.

For 2020 and into 2021, years not part of the audit, the average wait times were far beyond the 30 days allowed by law.

“Average processing times has dropped from 205 days in July of 2021 to less than 190 days in September of 2021,” ISP said in the auditor’s report.

New FOID cards are to be processed within 30 days and renewals within 60 days.

CCL must be completed within 90 days with an additional 30 days if no fingerprints are provided. Around 93% of the CCL applications were completed on time in 2018, but that dropped to less than half, or 48%, completed within the timeframe allowed by law.

Before the audit was released Thursday, ISP said in a news release it has decreased the backlog, but not entirely.

ISP said it “has reduced backlogs by 89 percent for renewals and 75 percent for new applicants.”

State Rep. Tim Butler, R-Springfield, said the problem with the persistent delays is new applicants' rights are being denied.

“If you’re applying for a renewal of your card, at least we have it in place where that card gets extended even though you don’t get the new card in the mail, but for new applicants we are literally violating their constitutional rights,” Butler told WMAY before the audit was released.

The audit also revealed ISP recovered a fraction of revoked FOID cards and CCLs. The report shows ISP recovered fewer than half the number of revoked FOID cards in 2018 and fewer than a third in 2017. The agency had even fewer recovered CCL cards that were revoked, as low as 14 percent in 2019.

Among six total recommendations from the Auditor General, one was to streamline the process altogether and eliminate duplication and manual checks.

source: https://news.yahoo.com/audit-isp-not-following-law-230000420.html

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