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1 | | AN ACT concerning courts.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Juvenile Court Act of 1987 is amended by |
5 | | changing Section 5-745 as follows:
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6 | | (705 ILCS 405/5-745)
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7 | | Sec. 5-745. Court review.
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8 | | (1) The court may require any legal custodian or guardian |
9 | | of the person
appointed under this Act, including the |
10 | | Department of Juvenile Justice for youth committed under |
11 | | Section 5-750 of this Act, to report periodically to the court |
12 | | or may cite him
or her into court and require him or her, or his |
13 | | or her agency, to make a full
and accurate report of
his or her |
14 | | or its doings in behalf of the minor, including efforts to |
15 | | secure post-release placement of the youth after release from |
16 | | the Department's facilities. The legal custodian or
guardian,
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17 | | within 10 days after the citation, shall make the report, |
18 | | either in writing
verified by affidavit or orally under oath in |
19 | | open court, or otherwise as the
court directs. Upon the hearing |
20 | | of the report the court may remove the legal
custodian or |
21 | | guardian and appoint another in his or her stead or restore the
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22 | | minor to
the custody of his or her parents or former guardian |
23 | | or legal custodian.
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1 | | (2) If the Department of Children and Family Services is |
2 | | appointed legal custodian or guardian of a minor under this |
3 | | Act, the Department of Children and Family Services A guardian |
4 | | or legal custodian appointed by the court under this
Act shall |
5 | | file updated case plans with the court every 6 months. Every |
6 | | agency
which has guardianship of a child shall file a |
7 | | supplemental petition for court
review, or review by an |
8 | | administrative body appointed or approved by the court
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9 | | further order within 18 months of the sentencing order and each |
10 | | 18 months
thereafter. The petition shall state facts relative |
11 | | to the child's present
condition of physical, mental and |
12 | | emotional health as well as facts relative to
his or her |
13 | | present custodial or foster care. The petition shall be set for
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14 | | hearing
and the clerk shall mail 10 days notice of the hearing |
15 | | by certified mail,
return receipt requested, to the person or |
16 | | agency having the physical custody
of the child, the minor and |
17 | | other interested parties unless a
written waiver of notice is |
18 | | filed with the petition.
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19 | | If the minor is in the custody of the Illinois Department |
20 | | of Children and Family Services, pursuant to an order entered |
21 | | under this Article, the court shall conduct permanency hearings |
22 | | as set out in subsections (1), (2), and (3) of Section 2-28 of |
23 | | Article II of this Act. |
24 | | Rights of wards of the court under this Act are enforceable |
25 | | against any
public agency by complaints for relief by mandamus |
26 | | filed in any proceedings
brought under this Act.
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1 | | (3) The minor or any person interested in the minor may |
2 | | apply to the court
for a change in custody of the minor and the |
3 | | appointment of a new custodian or
guardian of the person or for |
4 | | the restoration of the minor to the custody of
his or her |
5 | | parents or former guardian or custodian. In the event that the
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6 | | minor has
attained 18 years of age and the guardian or |
7 | | custodian petitions the court for
an order terminating his or |
8 | | her guardianship or custody, guardianship or legal
custody
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9 | | shall terminate automatically 30 days after the receipt of the |
10 | | petition unless
the
court orders otherwise. No legal custodian |
11 | | or guardian of the person may be
removed without his or her |
12 | | consent until given notice and an opportunity to be
heard by |
13 | | the court.
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14 | | (4) If the minor is committed to the Department of Juvenile |
15 | | Justice under Section 5-750 of this Act, the Department shall |
16 | | notify the court in writing of the occurrence of any of the |
17 | | following: |
18 | | (a) a critical incident involving a youth committed to |
19 | | the Department; as used in this paragraph (a), "critical |
20 | | incident" means any incident that involves a serious risk |
21 | | to the life, health, or well-being of the youth and |
22 | | includes, but is not limited to, an accident or suicide |
23 | | attempt resulting in serious bodily harm or |
24 | | hospitalization, psychiatric hospitalization, alleged or |
25 | | suspected abuse, or escape or attempted escape from |
26 | | custody, filed within 10 days of the occurrence; |
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1 | | (b) a youth who has been released by the Prisoner |
2 | | Review Board but remains in a Department facility solely |
3 | | because the youth does not have an approved aftercare |
4 | | release host site, filed within 10 days of the occurrence; |
5 | | (c) a youth, except a youth who has been adjudicated a |
6 | | habitual or violent juvenile offender under Section 5-815 |
7 | | or 5-820 of this Act or committed for first degree murder, |
8 | | who has been held in a Department facility for over one |
9 | | consecutive year; or |
10 | | (d) if a report has been filed under paragraph (c) of |
11 | | this subsection, a supplemental report shall be filed every |
12 | | 6 months thereafter. |
13 | | The notification required by this subsection (4) shall contain |
14 | | a brief description of the incident or situation and a summary |
15 | | of the youth's current physical, mental, and emotional health |
16 | | and the actions the Department took in response to the incident |
17 | | or to identify an aftercare release host site, as applicable. |
18 | | Upon receipt of the notification, the court may require the |
19 | | Department to make a full report under subsection (1) of this |
20 | | Section. |
21 | | (5) With respect to any report required to be filed with |
22 | | the court under this Section, the Independent Juvenile |
23 | | Ombudsman shall provide a copy to the minor's court appointed |
24 | | guardian ad litem, if the Department has received written |
25 | | notice of the appointment, and to the minor's attorney, if the |
26 | | Department has received written notice of representation from |
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1 | | the attorney. If the Department has a record that a guardian |
2 | | has been appointed for the minor and a record of the last known |
3 | | address of the minor's court appointed guardian, the |
4 | | Independent Juvenile Ombudsman shall send a notice to the |
5 | | guardian that the report is available and will be provided by |
6 | | the Independent Juvenile Ombudsman upon request. If the |
7 | | Department has no record regarding the appointment of a |
8 | | guardian for the minor, and the Department's records include |
9 | | the last known addresses of the minor's parents, the |
10 | | Independent Juvenile Ombudsman shall send a notice to the |
11 | | parents that the report is available and will be provided by |
12 | | the Independent Juvenile Ombudsman upon request. |
13 | | (Source: P.A. 96-178, eff. 1-1-10; 97-518, eff. 1-1-12.)
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