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92_HB0303

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to  the  expungement  and  sealing  of
 2    arrest and court records.

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

 5        Section 5.  The Criminal Identification Act is amended by
 6    changing Section 5 as follows:

 7        (20 ILCS 2630/5) (from Ch. 38, par. 206-5)
 8        Sec. 5. Arrest reports; expungement.
 9        (a)  All policing bodies of this State shall  furnish  to
10    the  Department, daily, in the form and detail the Department
11    requires, fingerprints and descriptions of  all  persons  who
12    are  arrested  on  charges  of violating any penal statute of
13    this State for offenses that are classified as  felonies  and
14    Class  A or B misdemeanors and of all minors of the age of 10
15    and over who have been arrested for an offense which would be
16    a felony if committed by  an  adult,  and  may  forward  such
17    fingerprints and descriptions for minors arrested for Class A
18    or  B  misdemeanors.   Moving or nonmoving traffic violations
19    under the Illinois Vehicle Code shall not be reported  except
20    for  violations  of  Chapter  4, Section 11-204.1, or Section
21    11-501 of that Code.  In addition, conservation offenses,  as
22    defined in the Supreme Court Rule 501(c), that are classified
23    as Class B misdemeanors shall not be reported.
24        Whenever  an  adult  or minor prosecuted as an adult, not
25    having previously been convicted of any criminal  offense  or
26    municipal  ordinance violation, charged with a violation of a
27    municipal ordinance or a felony or misdemeanor, is  acquitted
28    or released without being convicted, whether the acquittal or
29    release  occurred  before, on, or after the effective date of
30    this amendatory Act of the 92nd General  Assembly  1991,  the
31    Chief  Judge  of  the circuit wherein the charge was brought,
 
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 1    any judge of that circuit designated by the Chief  Judge,  or
 2    in counties of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the judge who
 3    terminated  the  original  court  disposition  must presiding
 4    trial judge  at  the  defendant's  trial  may  upon  verified
 5    petition of the defendant order the record of arrest expunged
 6    from  the official records of the arresting authority and the
 7    Department and order that the records of  the  clerk  of  the
 8    circuit court be sealed until further order of the court upon
 9    good cause shown and the name of the defendant obliterated on
10    the  official  index required to be kept by the circuit court
11    clerk under Section 16 of the Clerks of Courts Act,  but  the
12    order  shall not affect any index issued by the circuit court
13    clerk before the entry of  the  order.   The  Department  may
14    charge  the  petitioner  a  fee  equivalent  to  the  cost of
15    processing any order to expunge or seal the records, and  the
16    fee  shall  be deposited into the State Police Services Fund.
17    The records of those  arrests,  however,  that  result  in  a
18    disposition  of  supervision  for  any  offense  shall not be
19    expunged from the records of the arresting authority  or  the
20    Department  nor  impounded  by  the court until 2 years after
21    discharge and dismissal of supervision.  Those  records  that
22    result  from  a supervision for a violation of Section 3-707,
23    3-708, 3-710, 5-401.3, or 11-503 of the Illinois Vehicle Code
24    or a similar  provision  of  a  local  ordinance,  or  for  a
25    violation  of  Section 12-3.2, 12-15 or 16A-3 of the Criminal
26    Code of 1961, or probation under Section 10 of  the  Cannabis
27    Control   Act,   Section   410  of  the  Illinois  Controlled
28    Substances Act, Section 12-4.3(b)(1) and (2) of the  Criminal
29    Code  of  1961  (as  those  provisions  existed  before their
30    deletion  by  Public  Act  89-313),  Section  10-102  of  the
31    Illinois Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependency  Act  when  the
32    judgment of conviction has been vacated, Section 40-10 of the
33    Alcoholism  and  Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act when the
34    judgment of conviction has been vacated, or Section 10 of the
 
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 1    Steroid Control Act shall not be expunged from the records of
 2    the arresting authority nor impounded by the  court  until  5
 3    years  after  termination of probation or supervision.  Those
 4    records that result from a supervision  for  a  violation  of
 5    Section  11-501  of  the  Illinois  Vehicle Code or a similar
 6    provision of a local ordinance, shall not be  expunged.   All
 7    records  set  out  above  may  be  ordered by the court to be
 8    expunged from the records  of  the  arresting  authority  and
 9    impounded  by  the  court  after  5  years,  but shall not be
10    expunged by the Department, but  shall,  on  court  order  be
11    sealed  by  the  Department  and  may  be disseminated by the
12    Department only as  required  by  law  or  to  the  arresting
13    authority,  the  State's Attorney, and the court upon a later
14    arrest for the same or a similar offense or for  the  purpose
15    of sentencing for any subsequent felony.  Upon conviction for
16    any  offense, the Department of Corrections shall have access
17    to all sealed records of the Department  pertaining  to  that
18    individual.
19        (a-5)  Those  records  maintained  by  the Department for
20    persons arrested  prior  to  their  17th  birthday  shall  be
21    expunged  as  provided in Section 5-915 of the Juvenile Court
22    Act of 1987.
23        (b)  Whenever a person has been convicted of a  crime  or
24    of  the  violation of a municipal ordinance, in the name of a
25    person whose identity he has stolen or  otherwise  come  into
26    possession  of,  the  aggrieved person from whom the identity
27    was stolen or otherwise obtained without authorization,  upon
28    learning  of  the  person  having  been  arrested  using  his
29    identity,  may,  upon verified petition to the chief judge of
30    the circuit wherein the arrest was made, have a  court  order
31    entered  nunc  pro  tunc  by  the  chief judge to correct the
32    arrest record, conviction record, if any,  and  all  official
33    records  of  the  arresting  authority, the Department, other
34    criminal justice agencies,  the  prosecutor,  and  the  trial
 
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 1    court  concerning  such  arrest, if any, by removing his name
 2    from all such records  in  connection  with  the  arrest  and
 3    conviction,  if any, and by inserting in the records the name
 4    of the offender, if known or ascertainable, in  lieu  of  the
 5    has  name.   The  records  of  the clerk of the circuit court
 6    clerk shall be sealed until further order of the  court  upon
 7    good  cause  shown  and  the  name  of  the  aggrieved person
 8    obliterated on the official index required to be kept by  the
 9    circuit  court clerk under Section 16 of the Clerks of Courts
10    Act, but the order shall not affect any index issued  by  the
11    circuit court clerk before the entry of the order. Nothing in
12    this  Section  shall  limit the Department of State Police or
13    other criminal justice agencies or prosecutors  from  listing
14    under  an offender's name the false names he or she has used.
15    For purposes of this  Section,  convictions  for  moving  and
16    nonmoving  traffic  violations  other  than  convictions  for
17    violations  of  Chapter 4, Section 11-204.1 or Section 11-501
18    of the Illinois Vehicle Code shall not be a bar to  expunging
19    the  record  of  arrest  and court records for violation of a
20    misdemeanor or municipal ordinance.
21        (c)  Whenever a person  who  has  been  convicted  of  an
22    offense   is   granted   a   pardon  by  the  Governor  which
23    specifically authorizes expungement, he  may,  upon  verified
24    petition  to  the chief judge of the circuit where the person
25    had been convicted, any judge of the  circuit  designated  by
26    the  Chief  Judge,  or  in  counties  of  less than 3,000,000
27    inhabitants, the presiding trial  judge  at  the  defendant's
28    trial, may have a court order entered expunging the record of
29    arrest  from  the official records of the arresting authority
30    and order that the records of the clerk of the circuit  court
31    and the Department be sealed until further order of the court
32    upon  good  cause  shown or as otherwise provided herein, and
33    the name of the defendant obliterated from the official index
34    requested to be kept by the circuit court clerk under Section
 
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 1    16 of the Clerks of Courts Act in connection with the  arrest
 2    and conviction for the offense for which he had been pardoned
 3    but  the  order  shall  not  affect  any  index issued by the
 4    circuit court clerk before  the  entry  of  the  order.   All
 5    records  sealed  by the Department may be disseminated by the
 6    Department only as  required  by  law  or  to  the  arresting
 7    authority,  the  State's Attorney, and the court upon a later
 8    arrest for the same or similar offense or for the purpose  of
 9    sentencing  for  any  subsequent felony.  Upon conviction for
10    any subsequent offense, the Department of  Corrections  shall
11    have   access   to  all  sealed  records  of  the  Department
12    pertaining to that individual.  Upon entry of  the  order  of
13    expungement,  the  clerk  of the circuit court shall promptly
14    mail a copy of the order to the person who was pardoned.
15        (c-5)  Whenever a person has been convicted  of  criminal
16    sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory
17    criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, or
18    aggravated  criminal sexual abuse, the victim of that offense
19    may request that the State's Attorney of the county in  which
20    the  conviction  occurred  file  a verified petition with the
21    presiding trial judge at the  defendant's  trial  to  have  a
22    court  order  entered to seal the records of the clerk of the
23    circuit court in connection with the proceedings of the trial
24    court concerning that offense.  However, the records  of  the
25    arresting  authority  and  the  Department  of  State  Police
26    concerning  the offense shall not be sealed.  The court, upon
27    good cause shown, shall make the records of the clerk of  the
28    circuit court in connection with the proceedings of the trial
29    court concerning the offense available for public inspection.
30        (d)  Notice of the petition for subsections (a), (b), and
31    (c)  shall  be served upon the State's Attorney or prosecutor
32    charged  with  the  duty  of  prosecuting  the  offense,  the
33    Department of State Police,  the  arresting  agency  and  the
34    chief legal officer of the unit of local government affecting
 
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 1    the  arrest.   Unless the State's Attorney or prosecutor, the
 2    Department of State Police,  the  arresting  agency  or  such
 3    chief  legal  officer  objects to the petition within 30 days
 4    from the date of the notice, the court shall enter  an  order
 5    granting  or  denying  the  petition.  The clerk of the court
 6    shall promptly mail a copy of the order to  the  person,  the
 7    arresting  agency,  the  prosecutor,  the Department of State
 8    Police and such other criminal justice  agencies  as  may  be
 9    ordered by the judge.
10        (e)  Nothing herein shall prevent the Department of State
11    Police  from  maintaining  all  records  of any person who is
12    admitted to probation  upon  terms  and  conditions  and  who
13    fulfills those terms and conditions pursuant to Section 10 of
14    the  Cannabis  Control  Act,  Section  410  of  the  Illinois
15    Controlled  Substances  Act,  Section  12-4.3 of the Criminal
16    Code of 1961, Section 10-102 of the Illinois  Alcoholism  and
17    Other  Drug  Dependency  Act, Section 40-10 of the Alcoholism
18    and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act, or Section 10 of the
19    Steroid Control Act.
20        (f)  No court order issued pursuant  to  the  expungement
21    provisions of this Section shall become final for purposes of
22    appeal  until  30  days  after  notice  is  received  by  the
23    Department.   Any  court  order contrary to the provisions of
24    this Section is void.
25        (g)  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c-5)  of
26    this  Section,  the  court  shall  not  order  the sealing or
27    expungement of the arrest records and records of the  circuit
28    court   clerk  of  any  person  granted  supervision  for  or
29    convicted of any sexual offense  committed  against  a  minor
30    under  18  years  of  age.  For the purposes of this Section,
31    "sexual offense committed against a minor"  includes  but  is
32    not  limited  to  the  offenses of indecent solicitation of a
33    child or criminal  sexual  abuse  when  the  victim  of  such
34    offense is under 18 years of age.
 
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 1    (Source: P.A.  90-590,  eff.  1-1-00;  91-295,  eff.  1-1-00;
 2    91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

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

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