93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2764


 
Introduced 2/5/2004, by Dave Syverson
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














730 ILCS 152/115









    Amends the Sex Offender and Child Murderer Community Notification Law.  Provides that the Department of State Police shall include the following information on its Sex Offender Information Web site: (1) the sex offender's name; (2) the sex offender's date of birth; (3) physical identification, including the height, weight, race, and sex of the sex offender; (4) the sex offender's address; and (5) the crime for which the sex offender was convicted or otherwise required to register as a sex offender, including the definition of the offense and whether the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense.  Provides that the Web site shall also include a hyperlink to the sex offender Web sites of Missouri, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa.  Provides that the Department of State Police shall highlight any new additions to its Web site and any address changes for 90 days after entering the information on its Web site.
















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SB2764

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    AN ACT concerning sex offenders.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Sex Offender and Child Murderer Community 
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Notification Law is amended  by changing Section 115 as follows:
 



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    (730 ILCS 152/115)



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    Sec. 115. Sex offender database. 

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

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

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

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

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page. The Department of State Police shall include the 
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following information on its Web site: (1) the sex offender's 
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name; (2) the sex offender's date of birth; (3) physical 
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identification, including the height, weight, race, and sex of 
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the sex offender; (4) the sex offender's address; and (5) the 
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crime for which the sex offender was convicted or otherwise 
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required to register as a sex offender, including the 
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definition of the offense and whether the victim was under 18 
 


 






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years of age at the time of the commission of the offense.  The 
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Web site shall also include a hyperlink to the sex offender Web 
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sites of Missouri, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa.  The 
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Department of State Police must update that information as it 
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deems
necessary. The Department of State Police shall highlight 
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any new additions to its Web site and any address changes for 
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90 days after entering the information on its Web site.


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

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permitting access to the sex offender information.  The 
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Department of State
Police may
limit access
to the sex offender 
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information to information about sex offenders who reside

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within a
specified geographic
area in proximity to the address 
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of
the person
seeking that information.  The Department of State 
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Police must promulgate rules
in accordance with the Illinois 
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Administrative Procedure
Act to implement this
subsection
(b)

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and those rules must include procedures to ensure that the 
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information in the
database is accurate.

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(Source: P.A. 90-193, eff. 7-24-97; 91-224, eff. 7-1-00.)