(20 ILCS 2605/2605-335) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
Sec. 2605-335. Conviction information for private child services
organization. Upon the request of any private organization
that devotes a major portion of its time to the provision of
recreational, social, educational, or child safety services to children, to
conduct, pursuant to positive identification, criminal background
investigations of all of that organization's current employees, current
volunteers, prospective employees, or prospective volunteers
charged with the care and custody of children during the provision of the
organization's services, and to report to the requesting organization
any record of convictions maintained in the Illinois State Police's files about those
persons. The Illinois State Police shall charge an application fee, based on actual
costs, for the dissemination of conviction information pursuant to this
Section. The Illinois State Police is empowered to establish this fee
and shall
prescribe the form and manner for requesting and furnishing conviction
information pursuant to this Section.
Information received by the
organization from the Illinois State Police concerning an individual shall be provided
to the individual. Any such information obtained by the
organization
shall be confidential and may not be transmitted outside the organization
and may not be transmitted to anyone within the organization except as
needed for the purpose of evaluating the individual.
Only information and standards that bear a reasonable and
rational
relation to the performance of child care shall be used by the organization.
Any employee of the Illinois State Police or any member, employee, or volunteer of
the
organization receiving confidential information under this Section who
gives or causes to be given any confidential information concerning any
criminal convictions of an individual shall be guilty of a Class A
misdemeanor unless release of the information is authorized by
this
Section.
(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
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