Illinois Gambling Self-exclusion List
Section 3000.750 Establishment of a Self-Exclusion List
- The Illinois State Police and gambling board acknowledged this week that in addition to checking gamblers for being on the casino self-exclusion list, they also are 'randomly' checking patrons for outstanding criminal warrants and for being unregistered sex offenders.
- Individuals seeking to enroll in Self-Exclusion need to contact the Program Director to coordinate the enrollment process at an Illinois casino. The Program Director can be reached at (312) 814-4678, (312) 814-8832 or by e-mail at gene.oshea@igb.illinois.gov.
a) Any person who acknowledges that he or she has a gambling problem may request of the Board that he or she be excluded voluntarily from the area within the admission turnstiles of all riverboat gaming operations in Illinois on a permanent basis, except as limited by Section 3000.780. A person shall be placed on the Self-Exclusion List upon submission of all information and completion and execution of all forms required under Section 3000.755, as enforced by the Administrator.
b) Any person placed on the Self-Exclusion List shall be prohibited for a minimum of 5 years from entering the area within the admission turnstiles of any riverboat gaming operation in the State of Illinois. Any gaming operation in the United States owned or operated by an affiliate of an Illinois riverboat gaming operation may, in its sole discretion, prohibit a person placed on the Self-Exclusion List from entering its affiliated gaming operations. Any gaming regulatory agency in any state with which the Board enters into an agreement to share confidentially the information contained in the Self-Exclusion List may, in its sole discretion, prohibit a person placed on the Self-Exclusion List from entering any gaming operation within its jurisdiction.
c) The Administrator shall maintain the Self-Exclusion List in a confidential manner.
The Illinois Voluntary Self-Exclusion Policy states: Section 3000.745 Voluntary Self-Exclusion Policy The Board shall provide a procedure whereby a person who acknowledges that he or she has a gambling problem may self-identify and self-exclude himself or herself from the area within the turnstiles of Illinois riverboat gaming operations. Has time frames so you can be on the list for 1yr up to life and can take yourself of the list. If the casino wins the money is forfeited below is from NJ DGE site under fin & stat info. 'under $100,000 are split equally between Casino Revenue Fund and Compulsive Gambling Programs.
(Source: Amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 8098, effective June 14, 2007)
Video gambling in non-casino locations came to Illinois in September, 2012. Eligible bars, truck stops, and other locales can host up to five video gambling terminals in an adults-only portion of their establishments. There are now more than 16,000 video gambling terminals operating in Illinois at a total of more than 4,000 establishments. There is no self-exclusion system in place for gamblers on these machines. These thousands of locations and small-scale operations are cited as reasons that a self-exclusion program would not be implementable, but the fact that the locations are adult-only means that there must already be in place a system capable of checking IDs.
Illinois Gambling Self-exclusion List 2020
The article linked above (and here) offers a few statistics on Illinois's statewide casino self-exclusion plan. In mid-April, 2014, there were more than 10,600 people on the self-exclusion list. Since the initiation of the program in 2002, 'there have been 3,477 instances where self-excluded gamblers had been caught [in violation of their exclusion orders], with 3,399 of the incidents resulting in arrests.' Many of these violators are caught when they win a jackpot exceeding $1,200, as the collection of such winnings requires identification. When a 'winner' is found to be on the self-excluded list, he or she is not allowed to keep the jackpot. So far, casinos have 'confiscated $1.5 million of winnings from self-excluded gamblers, who then get to decide which of three addiction centers their money goes to.'
[The headline and the early part of the linked article might be confusing to the Self-Exclusion reader, as these refer to excluding some undesirable people from operating on the supply side of video gambling. The material on voluntary exclusions for gamblers comes later in the article.] 