REPORT DIGEST

ILLINOIS STATE POLICE - STATEWIDE 9-1-1 FUND
AND WIRELESS CARRIER REIMBURSEMENT FUND

LIMITED SCOPE COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION
FOR THE TWO YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2024

Release Date:  June 12, 2025

FINDINGS THIS AUDIT: 3

CATEGORY:  NEW -- REPEAT – TOTAL
Category 1:  1 -- 2 -- 3
Category 2:  0 -- 0 -- 0
Category 3:  0 -- 0 -- 0
TOTAL:  1 -- 2 -- 3

FINDINGS LAST AUDIT: 2

State of Illinois, Office of the Auditor
General
FRANK J. MAUTINO, AUDITOR GENERAL

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INTRODUCTION

The Illinois State Police (Department)
solely maintains the Statewide 9-1-1 Fund.
The Department and the Illinois Commerce
Commission (Commission) each have distinct
responsibilities over transactions recorded
within the Wireless Carrier Reimbursement
Fund (Fund).  Both of these funds must have
a fund-level examination by the Auditor
General every two years under the Emergency
Telephone System Act (Act) (50 ILCS 750/50).
This digest is limited to the
responsibilities of the Department pursuant
to State law. A separate digest concerning
the Commission’s responsibilities was
separately released.

SYNOPSIS

• (24-3) The Illinois State Police
(Department) did not comply with the
requirements of the Emergency Telephone
System Act (ETSA).

FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

NONCOMPLIANCE WITH THE EMERGENCY TELEPHONE
SYSTEM ACT

The Illinois State Police (Department) did
not comply with the requirements of the
Emergency Telephone System Act (ETSA).

During testing, we noted the Department had
not yet adopted rules requiring every 9-1-1
system to be able to accept text-to-9-1-1 as
required by ETSA.

In addition, we noted the following status
of Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) as
of July 1, 2024:

• Sixty-six of 179 PSAPs (37%) were not yet
text-ready.

• Forty-two of 113 (37%) text-ready PSAPs
had their text-ready system implementation 7
to 142 days late. (Finding 3, pages 20-21)

We recommended the Department adopt rules
and design controls to ensure PSAPs comply
with the requirements of ETSA.

The Department concurred with our
recommendation.

OTHER FINDINGS

The remaining findings pertain to voucher
and receipt processing weaknesses. We will
review the Department’s progress towards the
implementation of our recommendations in our
next State compliance examination.

ACCOUNTANT’S OPINION

The accountants conducted a limited scope
compliance examination of the Department’s
transactions within the Statewide 9-1-1 fund
and the Wireless Carrier Reimbursement Fund
for the two years ended June 30, 2024, as
required by the Act and the Illinois State
Auditing Act.  The accountants qualified
their report on State compliance for
Findings 2024-001 through 2024-003.  Except
for the noncompliance described in the
findings, the accountants stated the
Department complied, in all material
respects, with the requirements described in
the report.

This State compliance examination was
conducted by Adelfia LLC.

COURTNEY DZIERWA
Division Director

This report is transmitted in accordance
with Section 3-14 of the Illinois State
Auditing Act.

FRANK J. MAUTINO
Auditor General

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