WGLT Newscasts - 1:04pm 6-11-2025

Published Jun 11, 2025, 6:06 PM

This newscast aired at 1:04pm on 6-11-2025 on WGLT.

From the WGLT newsroom, I'm John Norton. A central Illinois lawmaker says a gun safety measure in Illinois will likely face legal challenges. Republican Representative Bill Hader of Morton says the bill is a clear violation of the Second Amendment. I don't even

Look at these bills anymore because I know they're going to be in the courts for years and because they're going to be found unconstitutional in my opinion is blatantly unconstitutional. It really hinders your ability to defend yourself in your home. The Safe Gun Storage Act says firearm owners must place weapons in a secure storage if they have a minor, someone who is at risk, or

If they don't have a void card on their property, the measure heads to Governor Pritzker's desk. A recent Illinois State University graduate has been selected as one of the recipients of the Paul Simon Democracy Prize. Ben Munsey says he plans to use the money out of voter registration drive for ISU students. I wanted it to be a nonpartisan thing. I really wanted to just focus on getting students registered.

In town rather than registering them for a certain cause or to persuade them to vote one party or another, Munsey's project focuses on registering students to vote where they live instead of where they go for the summer. A new study of traffic data shows police at Illinois State University and other public colleges in the state stop black drivers on campus at a higher rate than whites.

ISU police chief Aaron Woodruff says it is possible the majority of drivers officers pull over are not students, and many don't live here. He says that skews the

data. A couple major roadways running right through the core of our campus when you consider College Avenue and you consider Main Street running right through the core of our campus and the other outlier streets. I mean, we have over 50,000 vehicles a day that are are passing through our campus.

Woodruff says it's possible.

have implicit bias in deciding who they stop, and state police may soon be able to use expressway cameras to investigate human trafficking. Capital News Illinois reports the state has expanded its expressway camera programs significantly in recent years. It does limit the crimes the cameras can investigate. A measure awaiting the governor's signature would expand the law to allow for the investigation of trafficking and involuntary servitude. I'm John Norton.

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