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1 | AN ACT concerning park districts.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing
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5 | Section 8-23 as follows:
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6 | (70 ILCS 1205/8-23)
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7 | Sec. 8-23. Criminal background investigations.
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8 | (a) An applicant , age 17 years or
older, for employment | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | with a park district is required as
a condition of employment | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | to authorize an investigation to determine if
the applicant has | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
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12 | offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or has been
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13 | convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | with the
park district, of any other felony under the laws of | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | this State or of any
offense committed or attempted in any | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | other state or against the laws of
the United States that, if | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | punishable as a felony under the laws of this State. | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Authorization
for the
investigation shall be furnished by the | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | applicant to the park district.
Upon receipt of this | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | authorization, the park district shall submit the
applicant's | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | name, sex, race, date of birth, and social security number to
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23 | the Department of State Police on forms prescribed by the | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | Department of
State Police. The Department of State Police | |||||||||||||||||||
25 | shall conduct a search of the
Illinois criminal history records | |||||||||||||||||||
26 | database to ascertain if the applicant being considered for
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27 | employment has been convicted of committing or attempting to | |||||||||||||||||||
28 | commit any of
the enumerated criminal or drug
offenses
in | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | subsection (c) of this Section or
has been convicted of | |||||||||||||||||||
30 | committing or attempting to commit, within 7 years of
the | |||||||||||||||||||
31 | application for employment with
the
park district, any other | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | felony under the laws of this State. The
Department
of
State |
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1 | Police shall charge the park district a fee for conducting the
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2 | investigation, which fee shall be deposited in the State Police | ||||||
3 | Services
Fund and shall not exceed the cost of the inquiry. The | ||||||
4 | applicant shall
not be charged a fee by the park district for | ||||||
5 | the investigation.
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6 | (b) If the search of the Illinois criminal history record | ||||||
7 | database
indicates that the applicant has been convicted of | ||||||
8 | committing or attempting to
commit any of the enumerated | ||||||
9 | criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) or has
been | ||||||
10 | convicted of committing or attempting to commit, within 7 years | ||||||
11 | of the
application for employment with the park district, any | ||||||
12 | other felony under the
laws of this State, the Department of | ||||||
13 | State Police and the Federal Bureau
of
Investigation shall | ||||||
14 | furnish, pursuant to
a fingerprint based background check, | ||||||
15 | records
of convictions, until expunged, to the
president of the | ||||||
16 | park district. Any information concerning the record of
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17 | convictions obtained by the president shall be confidential and | ||||||
18 | may only
be transmitted to those persons who are necessary to | ||||||
19 | the decision on whether to
hire the
applicant for employment. A | ||||||
20 | copy of the record of convictions obtained
from the Department | ||||||
21 | of State Police shall be provided to the applicant for
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22 | employment. Any person who releases any confidential | ||||||
23 | information
concerning any criminal convictions of an | ||||||
24 | applicant for employment shall
be guilty of a Class A | ||||||
25 | misdemeanor, unless the release of such
information is | ||||||
26 | authorized by this Section.
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27 | (c) No park district shall knowingly employ a person who | ||||||
28 | has been
convicted for committing attempted first degree murder | ||||||
29 | or
for committing
or attempting to commit first degree murder, | ||||||
30 | a Class X felony, or any
one or more of the following offenses: | ||||||
31 | (i) those defined in Sections 11-6,
11-9, 11-14, 11-15, | ||||||
32 | 11-15.1, 11-16, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-19.1, 11-19.2,
11-20, | ||||||
33 | 11-20.1, 11-21, 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1, 12-15, and 12-16 of
the | ||||||
34 | Criminal Code of 1961; (ii) those defined in the Cannabis | ||||||
35 | Control Act,
except those defined in Sections 4(a), 4(b), and | ||||||
36 | 5(a) of that Act; (iii) those
defined in the Illinois |
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1 | Controlled Substances Act; and
(iv) any offense
committed or | ||||||
2 | attempted in any other state or against the laws of the
United | ||||||
3 | States, which, if committed or attempted in this State, would | ||||||
4 | have
been punishable as one or more of the foregoing offenses. | ||||||
5 | Further, no
park district shall knowingly employ a person who | ||||||
6 | has been found to be
the perpetrator of sexual or physical | ||||||
7 | abuse of any minor under 18 years
of age pursuant to | ||||||
8 | proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court Act
of 1987. | ||||||
9 | No park district shall knowingly employ a person for whom a
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10 | criminal background investigation has not been initiated.
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11 | (Source: P.A. 93-418, eff. 1-1-04.)
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