Amid other reforms, Illinois state Senator looks to give local prosecutors power to wiretap public corruption suspects – Center Square

State Sen. John Curran Thursday with other Republicans laid out measures he said would help, saying that local prosecutors can get wiretaps for drug and gang investigations, but not for public corruption investigations, and that needs to change: “The federal government has shown us how they effectively use wiretapping evidence to break through the system of corruption here in Illinois, our local prosecutors need to get in the game."