ILLINOIS (WSIL) -- History was made Thursday in Illinois as that prevents police from lying to youth during interrogations.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard tells News 3 he doesn't agree with this bill and says it will cause an imbalance between a defendant's rights and protecting society.
"These consequential pieces of legislation only reached my desk because of the fierce and unrelenting advocacy of so many people who are standing here today," says Governor Pritzker.
The bill makes Illinois the first state in the country with this law.
"False confessions have played a role in far too many wrongful convictions, leading to painful often life-altering consequences," says Governor Pritzker.
Although deceptive tactics were deemed permissible by the judiciary in 1969, Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard says police will be limited in ways of catching criminals.
"Just another instance of police reformers that see how we've had success in case law and court cases using these different strategies to get to the truth that it's basically places where we find victories in winning the courts and then they pass laws to basically do an end-of-round and undermine success we've had in the past," says Sheriff Bullard.
Sheriff Bullard says he understands some officers abuse their power to make false confessions, but he says there are other ways to resolve that.
"Unfortunately, there will still be false confessions from time to time. There will still be lines that will be crossed when they're not supposed to be and there's nothing okay about that. Whenever we do discover it, we deal with it and we correct it and those who have abused their authority, we'll deal with them," says Sheriff Bullard.
News 3 reached out to other local police officers for their thoughts, but they were not available for comment.
The ban in Illinois begins January 1, 2022.
