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.)