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.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning sex offenders.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is
5 amended by adding Section 116 as follows:
 
6     (730 ILCS 152/116 new)
7     Sec. 116. Missing Sex Offender Database.
8     (a) The Department of State Police shall establish and
9 maintain a Statewide Missing Sex Offender Database for the
10 purpose of identifying missing sex offenders and making that
11 information available to the persons specified in Sections 120
12 and 125 of this Law. The Database shall be created from the Law
13 Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) established under
14 Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act
15 of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS
16 database for persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex
17 Offender Registration Act and shall identify those who are sex
18 offenders and who have not complied with the provisions of
19 Section 6 of that Act or whose address can not be verified
20 under Section 8-5 of that Act and shall add all the
21 information, including photographs if available, on those
22 missing sex offenders to the Statewide Sex Offender Database.
23     (b) The Department of State Police must make the

 

 

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1 information contained in the Statewide Missing Sex Offender
2 Database accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink
3 labeled "Missing Sex Offender Information" on the Department's
4 World Wide Web home page and on the Attorney General's I-SORT
5 page. The Department of State Police must update that
6 information as it deems necessary. The Internet page shall also
7 include information that rewards are available to persons who
8 inform the Department of State Police or a local law
9 enforcement agency of the whereabouts of a missing sex
10 offender.
11     The Department of State Police may require that a person
12 who seeks access to the missing sex offender information submit
13 biographical information about himself or herself before
14 permitting access to the missing sex offender information. The
15 Department of State Police must promulgate rules in accordance
16 with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement
17 this subsection (b) and those rules must include procedures to
18 ensure that the information in the database is accurate.
19     (c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender
20 Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate
21 all those entities involved in the Missing Sex Offender
22 Registration Program.
 
23     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24 becoming law.