HB1298enr 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB1298 Enrolled LRB097 02852 PJG 42874 b

AN ACT concerning finance.

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

Section 2. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 2605-375 as follows:

(20 ILCS 2605/2605-375) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)

Sec. 2605-375. Missing persons; Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS).

(a) To establish and maintain a statewide Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of providing electronic access by authorized entities to criminal justice data repositories and effecting an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing persons, including lost, missing or runaway minors and missing endangered seniors. The Department shall implement an automatic data exchange system to compile, to maintain, and to make available to other law enforcement agencies for immediate dissemination data that can assist appropriate agencies in recovering missing persons and provide access by authorized entities to various data repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and related purposes. To assist the Department in this effort, funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund. Funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund to the Department to finance any of its lawful purposes or functions in relation to defraying the expenses associated with establishing, maintaining, and supporting the issuance of electronic citations.

(b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the Department shall provide a uniform reporting format (LEADS) for the entry of pertinent information regarding the report of a missing person into LEADS. The report must include all of the following:

(1) Relevant information obtained from the notification concerning the missing person, including all of the following:

(A) a physical description of the missing person;

(B) the date, time, and place that the missing person was last seen; and

(C) the missing person's address.

(2) Information gathered by a preliminary investigation, if one was made.

(3) A statement by the law enforcement officer in charge stating the officer's assessment of the case based on the evidence and information received.

(b-5) The Department of State Police shall:

(1) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide or regional alert would be used in situations relating to the disappearances of individuals, based on criteria and in a format established by the Department. Such a format shall include, but not be limited to, the age of the missing person and the suspected circumstance of the disappearance.

(2) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of missing persons shall be entered as soon as the minimum level of data specified by the Department is available to the reporting agency and that no waiting period for the entry of the data exists.

(3) Compile and retain information regarding lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minors in a separate data file, in a manner that allows that information to be used by law enforcement and other agencies deemed appropriate by the Director, for investigative purposes. The information shall include the disposition of all reported lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minor cases.

(4) Compile and maintain an historic data repository relating to lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minors and other missing persons, including, but not limited to, missing endangered seniors, in order to develop and improve techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when responding to reports of missing persons.

(5) Create a quality control program regarding confirmation of missing person data, timeliness of entries of missing person reports into LEADS, and performance audits of all entering agencies.

(c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the Missing Persons Identification Act.

(d) The Department of State Police shall perform the duties prescribed in the Missing Persons Identification Act, subject to appropriation.

(Source: P.A. 94-145, eff. 1-1-06; 95-192, eff. 8-16-07.)

Section 10. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by changing Section 27.3e as follows:

(705 ILCS 105/27.3e)

Sec. 27.3e. Electronic citation fee. As used in this Section, "electronic citation" means the process of transmitting traffic, misdemeanor, municipal ordinance, conservation, or other citations and law enforcement data via electronic means to a circuit court clerk.

To defray the expense of establishing and maintaining electronic citations, each Circuit Court Clerk shall charge and collect an electronic citation fee of $5. Such fee shall be paid by the defendant in any traffic, misdemeanor, municipal ordinance, or conservation case upon a judgment of guilty or grant of supervision. This fee shall be in addition to all other fees and charges and assessable as costs and shall not be subject to disbursement under Section 27.5 or 27.6 of this Act. 60% of the fee shall be deposited into the Circuit Court Clerk Electronic Citation Fund and 40% of the fee shall be disbursed to the arresting agency to defray expenses related to the establishment and maintenance of electronic citations. The Circuit Court Clerk shall be the custodian, ex officio, of the Circuit Court Clerk Electronic Citation Fund and shall use the Fund to perform the duties required by the office for establishing and maintaining electronic citations. The Fund shall be audited by the County's auditor. The Circuit Court Clerk shall not charge and collect an electronic citation fee if the County Board has by ordinance elected not to be subject to this Section. Any funds collected under this Section before such an ordinance takes effect shall be disbursed to the Illinois State Police for expenses related to the establishment and maintenance of electronic citations.

With respect to funds designated for, as well as citations issued by, the Department of State Police, the moneys shall be remitted by the circuit court clerk to the State Treasurer within one month after receipt for deposit into the LEADS Maintenance Fund.

(Source: P.A. 96-1210, eff. 1-1-11.)

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