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Under a law enacted in Illinois in August 2015, the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Facilities Act<\/a> became effective on Jan. 1, 2016. Under its provisions, residents and their roommates have the right to consent to having a video or audio recording devices installed in their rooms. The cost of the installation and the equipment must be paid by the resident or the resident\u2019s family or loved ones. Some refer to the video installed in nursing homes as \u201cgranny cams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Illinois has become one of just a handful of states that allow the recording devices in nursing home residents\u2019 rooms. The law is in response to growing numbers of cases of nursing home abuse that regularly takes place in these facilities at the expense of the most vulnerable of our citizens: the elderly, the ill and infirm.<\/p>\n

The Illinois Department of Public Health <\/a>will establish a fund of $50,000 that will be given each year to residents selected by a lottery to purchase and install monitoring devices in nursing homes. It will be a criminal offense to tamper, obstruct or destroy the devices.\u00a0 Nursing homes are not allowed under this law to discriminate or retaliate against a resident who installs the monitoring systems.<\/p>\n

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Under a law enacted in Illinois in August 2015, the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Facilities Act became effective on Jan. 1, 2016. Under its provisions, residents and their roommates have the right to consent to having a video or audio recording devices installed in their rooms. 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