SB2764 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB093 20763 RLC 46694 b

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2764

Introduced 2/5/2004, by Dave Syverson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

730 ILCS 152/115

Amends the Sex Offender and Child Murderer Community Notification Law. Provides that the Department of State Police shall include the following information on its Sex Offender Information Web site: (1) the sex offender's name; (2) the sex offender's date of birth; (3) physical identification, including the height, weight, race, and sex of the sex offender; (4) the sex offender's address; and (5) the crime for which the sex offender was convicted or otherwise required to register as a sex offender, including the definition of the offense and whether the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense. Provides that the Web site shall also include a hyperlink to the sex offender Web sites of Missouri, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa. Provides that the Department of State Police shall highlight any new additions to its Web site and any address changes for 90 days after entering the information on its Web site.

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 and Child Murderer Community Notification Law is amended by changing Section 115 as follows:

(730 ILCS 152/115)

Sec. 115. Sex offender database.

(a) The Department of State Police shall establish and maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for the purpose of identifying 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 shall add all the information, including photographs if available, on those sex offenders to the Statewide Sex Offender Database.

(b) The Department of State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "Sex Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home page. The Department of State Police shall include the following information on its Web site: (1) the sex offender's name; (2) the sex offender's date of birth; (3) physical identification, including the height, weight, race, and sex of the sex offender; (4) the sex offender's address; and (5) the crime for which the sex offender was convicted or otherwise required to register as a sex offender, including the definition of the offense and whether the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense. The Web site shall also include a hyperlink to the sex offender Web sites of Missouri, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa. The Department of State Police must update that information as it deems necessary. The Department of State Police shall highlight any new additions to its Web site and any address changes for 90 days after entering the information on its Web site.

The Department of State Police may require that a person who seeks access to the sex offender information submit biographical information about himself or herself before permitting access to the sex offender information. The Department of State Police may limit access to the sex offender information to information about sex offenders who reside within a specified geographic area in proximity to the address of the person seeking that 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.

(Source: P.A. 90-193, eff. 7-24-97; 91-224, eff. 7-1-00.)