20 ILCS 2645/ Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database Act.

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20 ILCS 2645/1

(20 ILCS 2645/1)

Sec. 1.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Statewide Senior
Citizen Victimizer Database Act.

(Source: P.A. 92-246, eff. 1-1-02.)

20 ILCS 2645/5

(20 ILCS 2645/5)

Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:

"Director" means the Director of the Illinois State Police.

"Senior citizen" means a person of the age of 60 years or older.

"Senior citizen victimizer" means a person who has been arrested for
committing an offense against a senior citizen.

"Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database Terminal" means an interactive
computerized communication and
processing unit that permits direct on-line communication with the Illinois State Police's
Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database.

(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)

20 ILCS 2645/10

(20 ILCS 2645/10)

Sec. 10. Duties of the Illinois State Police. The Illinois State Police may:

(a) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of pertinent
information
regarding the report of an arrested senior
citizen victimizer into the Senior Citizen Victimizer Database Terminal;

(b) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of arrested senior
citizen
victimizers shall be entered into the
database as soon as the minimum level of data of information specified by the
Illinois State Police is available to the
reporting agency, and that no waiting period for the entry of that data exists;

(c) Compile and maintain a data repository relating to senior citizen
victimizers in order to gather information
regarding the various modus operandi used to victimize senior citizens, groups
that tend to routinely target senior
citizens, areas of the State that senior citizen victimizers tend to frequent,
and the type of persons senior citizen
victimizers routinely target;

(d) Develop and improve techniques used by law enforcement agencies and
prosecutors in the investigation,
apprehension, and prosecution of senior citizen victimizers;

(e) Locate all law enforcement agencies that could, in the opinion of the
Director,
benefit from access to the Statewide
Senior Citizen Victimizer Database, and notify them of its existence; and

(f) Cooperate with all law enforcement agencies wishing to gain access to
the
Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer
Database system, and to facilitate their entry into the system and to their
continued maintenance of access to it.

(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)

20 ILCS 2645/15

(20 ILCS 2645/15)

Sec. 15.

Duties of local law enforcement agencies.

Local law enforcement
agencies that are members of the
Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database system may:

(a) After arresting any person whom they believe to be a senior citizen
victimizer, create or update that person's
electronic file within the Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database system;
and

(b) Notify the prosecutor of an accused of that accused person's history of
perpetrating crimes against senior
citizens.

(Source: P.A. 92-246, eff. 1-1-02.)