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    AN ACT concerning sex offenders.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is 
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amended  by changing Section 115 as follows:
 



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    (730 ILCS 152/115)


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    Sec. 115. Sex offender database. 

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    (a) The Department of State Police
shall establish and 
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maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for
the
purpose of 
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identifying sex offenders and making that information

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available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of 
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this Law.  The
Database shall be created from the Law 
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Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)
established under 
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Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act

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of 1984.  The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS 
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database for
persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex 
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Offender Registration Act and
shall identify those who are sex 
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offenders and shall add all the
information, including 
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photographs if available, on those sex offenders to
the 
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Statewide Sex
Offender
Database.

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    (b) The Department of State Police must make the 
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information contained in
the
Statewide Sex Offender Database 
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accessible on the Internet by means of a
hyperlink
labeled "Sex 
 


 






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Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home

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page. The Department must make the information contained in the 
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Statewide Sex Offender Database searchable via a mapping system 
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which identifies registered sex offenders living within 5 miles 
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of an identified address. The Department of State Police must 
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update that information as it deems
necessary.

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    The Department of State Police may require that a person 
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who seeks access to
the sex
offender information submit 
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biographical information about himself or
herself before

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permitting access to the sex offender information.  The 
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Department of State Police must promulgate rules
in accordance 
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with the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act to implement 
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this
subsection
(b)
and those rules must include procedures to 
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ensure that the information in the
database is accurate.

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

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    (c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender 
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Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate 
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all those entities involved in the Sex Offender Registration 
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Program.

 


 






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