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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Department of State Police Law of the
Civil |
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| Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Sections |
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| 2605-5 and 2605-375 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 2605/2605-5)
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| Sec. 2605-5. Definitions. In this Law:
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| "Department" means the Department of State Police.
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| "Director" means the Director of State Police. |
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| "Missing endangered senior" means an individual 65 years of |
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| age or older who is reported missing to a law enforcement |
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| agency and is, or is believed to be: |
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| (1) a temporary or permanent resident of Illinois; |
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| (2) at a location that cannot be determined by an |
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| individual familiar with the missing individual; and |
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| (3) incapable of returning to the individual's |
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| residence without assistance.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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| (20 ILCS 2605/2605-375) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
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| Sec. 2605-375. Missing persons; Law Enforcement Agencies |
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| Data System
(LEADS).
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| (a) To establish and maintain a statewide Law Enforcement
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| Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of providing |
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| electronic access
by authorized entities to criminal justice |
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| data repositories and effecting an
immediate law enforcement |
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| response to reports of missing persons, including
lost, missing |
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| or runaway minors and missing endangered seniors. The |
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| Department shall implement an automatic
data exchange system to |
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| compile, to maintain, and to make available to
other law
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| enforcement agencies for immediate dissemination data that can
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| assist
appropriate agencies in recovering missing persons and |
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| provide access by
authorized entities to various data |
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| repositories available through LEADS for
criminal justice and |
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| related purposes. To assist the Department in
this effort, |
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| funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
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| (b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the
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| Department shall do the following:
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| (1) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of |
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| pertinent
information regarding the report of a missing |
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| person into LEADS. The report must include all of the |
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| following:
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| (A) Relevant information obtained from the |
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| notification concerning the missing person, including |
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| all of the following: |
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| (i) a physical description of the missing |
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| person; |
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| (ii) the date, time, and place that the missing |
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| person was last seen; and |
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| (iii) the missing person's address. |
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| (B) Information gathered by a preliminary |
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| investigation, if one was made. |
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| (C) A statement by the law enforcement officer in |
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| charge stating the officer's assessment of the case |
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| based on the evidence and information received. |
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| The Department of State Police shall prepare the report |
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| required by this paragraph (1) as soon as practical, but |
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| not later than 5 hours after the Department receives |
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| notification of a missing person.
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| (2) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide |
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| or regional alert
would be used in situations relating to |
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| the disappearances of individuals,
based on criteria and in |
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| a format established by the Department. Such a
format shall |
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| include, but not be limited to, the age of the missing |
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| person
and the suspected circumstance of the |
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| disappearance.
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| (3) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of |
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| missing persons
shall be entered as soon as the minimum |
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| level of data specified by the
Department is available to |
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| the reporting agency and that no waiting period
for the |
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| entry of the data exists.
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| (4) Compile and retain information regarding lost, |
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| abducted, missing,
or
runaway minors in a separate data |
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| file, in a manner that allows that
information to be used |
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| by law enforcement and other agencies deemed
appropriate by |
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| the Director, for investigative purposes. The
information
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| shall include the disposition of all reported lost, |
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| abducted, missing, or
runaway minor cases.
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| (5) Compile and maintain an historic data repository |
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| relating to lost,
abducted, missing, or runaway minors and |
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| other missing persons, including, but not limited to, |
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| missing endangered seniors, in order to
develop and improve |
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| techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when
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| responding to reports of missing persons.
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| (6) Create a quality control program regarding |
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| confirmation of missing
person data, timeliness of entries |
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| of missing person reports into LEADS,
and
performance |
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| audits of all entering agencies. |
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| (7) Upon completion of the report required by paragraph |
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| (1), the Department of State Police shall immediately |
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| forward the contents of the report to all of the following: |
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| (A) all law enforcement agencies that have |
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| jurisdiction in the location where the missing person |
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| lives and all law enforcement agencies that have |
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| jurisdiction in the location where the missing person |
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| was last seen; |
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| (B) all law enforcement agencies to which the |
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| person who made the notification concerning the |
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| missing person requests the report be sent, if the |
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| Department determines that the request is reasonable |
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| in light of the information received; |
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| (C) all law enforcement agencies that request a |
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| copy of the report; and |
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| (D) the National Crime Information Center's |
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| Missing Person File, if appropriate.
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| (8) The Department of State Police shall begin an |
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| investigation concerning the missing person not later than |
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| 24 hours after receiving notification of a missing person. |
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| (c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board |
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| shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel |
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| of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated |
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| missing endangered senior alert system established under this |
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| Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-130, eff. 1-1-98;
90-372, |
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| eff. 7-1-98;
90-590, eff. 1-1-00; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98; 90-793, |
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| eff. 8-14-98;
91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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| Section 10. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by |
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| changing Section 10.10 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 705/10.10)
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| Sec. 10.10. Training in child abduction and missing |
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| endangered senior alert system. The Board shall
conduct a
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| training program for law enforcement personnel of local |
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| governmental agencies
in the
statewide coordinated child |
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| abduction alert system developed under Section
2605-480 of
the |
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| Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code |
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| of
Illinois and the statewide coordinated missing endangered |
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| senior alert system developed under Section 2605-375 of the |
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| Department of State Police Law of the
Civil Administrative Code |
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| of Illinois.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-310, eff. 7-23-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January |
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| 1, 2006.
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