720 ILCS 5/26-1(a)(11) – Disorderly Conduct – Peeping Tom
This law makes it a crime to secretly look into someone’s home for a lewd or bad reason.
This Illinois law says that it’s against the law to go on someone else’s property and look into their house or window for a dirty or illegal reason. If you do this, you can be charged with a Class A misdemeanor, and repeating the offense can lead to worse punishment.
(a) A person breaks the law if they knowingly:
- Go onto another person’s property and, for a lewd or illegal purpose, purposely look into a home or building on that property through a window or any other opening.
(b) Sentence: Breaking part (a)(11) of this law is a Class A misdemeanor. Doing it three or more times becomes a Class 4 felony.
(c) In addition to any other punishment, the judge must order the person to do between 30 and 120 hours of community service if the program is available in that county. If someone is given supervision instead of jail time, they must also do community service. This rule does not apply if the person is sentenced to jail.
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