101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4936
 
Introduced 2/18/2020, by Rep. David A. Welter
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



730 ILCS 152/115

     Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law.  Provides that the Illinois State Police shall provide for automated access to data contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database, including the establishment of a web application programming interface that permits application programs to request and receive public data sets directly from the web.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is 
5amended  by changing Section 115 as follows:
 



6    (730 ILCS 152/115)


7    Sec. 115. Sex offender database. 

8    (a) The Department of State Police
shall establish and 
9maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for
the
purpose of 
10identifying sex offenders and making that information

11available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of 
12this Law.  The
Database shall be created from the Law 
13Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)
established under 
14Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act

15of 1984.  The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS 
16database for
persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex 
17Offender Registration Act and
shall identify those who are sex 
18offenders and shall add all the
information, including 
19photographs if available, on those sex offenders to
the 
20Statewide Sex
Offender
Database.

21    (b) The Department of State Police must make the 
22information contained in
the
Statewide Sex Offender Database 
23accessible on the Internet by means of a
hyperlink
labeled "Sex 
 
 
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1Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home

2page. The Department must make the information contained in the 
3Statewide Sex Offender Database searchable via a mapping system 
4which identifies registered sex offenders living within 5 miles 
5of an identified address. The Department of State Police must 
6update that information as it deems
necessary.

7    The Department of State Police may require that a person 
8who seeks access to
the sex
offender information submit 
9biographical information about himself or
herself before

10permitting access to the sex offender information.  The 
11Department of State Police must promulgate rules
in accordance 
12with the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act to implement 
13this
subsection
(b)
and those rules must include procedures to 
14ensure that the information in the
database is accurate.

15    (b-5) As soon as practicable after the effective date  of 
16this amendatory Act of the  101st General Assembly, the Illinois 
17State Police shall provide for automated access to data 
18contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database, including the 
19establishment of a web application programming interface that 
20permits application programs to request and receive public data 
21sets directly from the web. 
22    (c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender 
23Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate 
24all those entities involved in the Sex Offender Registration 
25Program.

26(Source: P.A. 93-979, eff. 8-20-04; 94-994, eff. 1-1-07.)