HB1998 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB095 07605 RLC 27755 b

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1998

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael K. Smith

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

730 ILCS 152/116 new

Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law. Provides that the Department of State Police shall establish and maintain a Statewide Missing Sex Offender Database for the purpose of identifying missing sex offenders and making that information available to the general public. Provides that the Department of State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide Missing Sex Offender Database accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "Missing Sex Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home page and on the Attorney General's I-SORT page. Provides that the Department of State Police must update that information as it deems necessary. Provides that the Internet page shall also include information that rewards are available to persons who inform the Department of State Police or a local law enforcement agency of the whereabouts of a missing sex offender. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning sex offenders.

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

Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is amended by adding Section 116 as follows:

(730 ILCS 152/116 new)

Sec. 116. Missing Sex Offender Database.

(a) The Department of State Police shall establish and maintain a Statewide Missing Sex Offender Database for the purpose of identifying missing sex offenders and making that information available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of this Law. The Database shall be created from the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) established under Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS database for persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex Offender Registration Act and shall identify those who are sex offenders and who have not complied with the provisions of Section 6 of that Act or whose address can not be verified under Section 8-5 of that Act and shall add all the information, including photographs if available, on those missing sex offenders to the Statewide Sex Offender Database.

(b) The Department of State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide Missing Sex Offender Database accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "Missing Sex Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home page and on the Attorney General's I-SORT page. The Department of State Police must update that information as it deems necessary. The Internet page shall also include information that rewards are available to persons who inform the Department of State Police or a local law enforcement agency of the whereabouts of a missing sex offender.

The Department of State Police may require that a person who seeks access to the missing sex offender information submit biographical information about himself or herself before permitting access to the missing sex offender information. The Department of State Police must promulgate rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement this subsection (b) and those rules must include procedures to ensure that the information in the database is accurate.

(c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate all those entities involved in the Missing Sex Offender Registration Program.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.