97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB3286

 

Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Sandy Cole - Dwight Kay - Patricia R. Bellock - Sidney H. Mathias

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
730 ILCS 152/115

    Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide on its Sex Offender Information web page a form that allows a person who seeks access to sex offender information to be notified by e-mail of when a sex offender changes residence, employment, or school attendance to a location within a particular zip code or within a specified distance from an address. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide such information by e-mail notification to a person who completes the form.


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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,
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    The Department of State Police shall provide on its Sex
16Offender Information web page a form that allows a person who
17seeks access to sex offender information to be notified by
18e-mail of when a sex offender changes residence, employment, or
19school attendance to a location within a particular zip code or
20within a specified distance from an address. The Department of
21State Police shall provide such information by e-mail
22notification to a person who completes the form.
23    (c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender
24Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate
25all those entities involved in the Sex Offender Registration
26Program.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 93-979, eff. 8-20-04; 94-994, eff. 1-1-07.)