Rep. Daniel Didech (D-Buffalo Grove) is proposing gun buyers reveal their public social media accounts to Illinois police before they’re approved for a firearm license. Pro-gun groups are outraged and so it the ACLU.
Rebecca Glenberg with ACLU Illinois tells CBS 2 Chicago the bill “doesn’t say anything about how that list will be retained and for how long and what uses it might be put to.”
The ACLU also worries police scanning social media may show bias saying that a person’s political beliefs, a person’s religious beliefs, things that should not play a part in whether someone gets a FOID card.
Didech says his bill is a less intrusive version of one that has been proposed in New York state. That version allows police to recover a gun license applicant’s entire browsing history.
