Sen. Louis S. Viverito

Filed: 4/11/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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1
AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1624

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1624 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil
5 Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Sections
6 2605-5 and 2605-375 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 2605/2605-5)
8     Sec. 2605-5. Definitions. In this Law:
9     "Department" means the Department of State Police.
10     "Director" means the Director of State Police.
11     "Missing endangered senior" means an individual 65 years of
12 age or older who is reported missing to a law enforcement
13 agency and is, or is believed to be:
14         (1) a temporary or permanent resident of Illinois;
15         (2) at a location that cannot be determined by an
16     individual familiar with the missing individual; and
17         (3) incapable of returning to the individual's
18     residence without assistance.
19 (Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
20     (20 ILCS 2605/2605-375)  (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
21     Sec. 2605-375. Missing persons; Law Enforcement Agencies
22 Data System (LEADS).
23     (a) To establish and maintain a statewide Law Enforcement

 

 

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1 Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of providing
2 electronic access by authorized entities to criminal justice
3 data repositories and effecting an immediate law enforcement
4 response to reports of missing persons, including lost, missing
5 or runaway minors and missing endangered seniors. The
6 Department shall implement an automatic data exchange system to
7 compile, to maintain, and to make available to other law
8 enforcement agencies for immediate dissemination data that can
9 assist appropriate agencies in recovering missing persons and
10 provide access by authorized entities to various data
11 repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and
12 related purposes. To assist the Department in this effort,
13 funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
14     (b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the
15 Department shall do the following:
16         (1) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of
17     pertinent information regarding the report of a missing
18     person into LEADS. The report must include all of the
19     following:
20             (A) Relevant information obtained from the
21         notification concerning the missing person, including
22         all of the following:
23                 (i) a physical description of the missing
24             person;
25                 (ii) the date, time, and place that the missing
26             person was last seen; and
27                 (iii) the missing person's address.
28             (B) Information gathered by a preliminary
29         investigation, if one was made.
30             (C) A statement by the law enforcement officer in
31         charge stating the officer's assessment of the case
32         based on the evidence and information received.
33         The Department of State Police shall prepare the report
34     required by this paragraph (1) as soon as practical, but

 

 

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1     not later than 5 hours after the Department receives
2     notification of a missing person.
3         (2) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide
4     or regional alert would be used in situations relating to
5     the disappearances of individuals, based on criteria and in
6     a format established by the Department. Such a format shall
7     include, but not be limited to, the age of the missing
8     person and the suspected circumstance of the
9     disappearance.
10         (3) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of
11     missing persons shall be entered as soon as the minimum
12     level of data specified by the Department is available to
13     the reporting agency and that no waiting period for the
14     entry of the data exists.
15         (4) Compile and retain information regarding lost,
16     abducted, missing, or runaway minors in a separate data
17     file, in a manner that allows that information to be used
18     by law enforcement and other agencies deemed appropriate by
19     the Director, for investigative purposes. The information
20     shall include the disposition of all reported lost,
21     abducted, missing, or runaway minor cases.
22         (5) Compile and maintain an historic data repository
23     relating to lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minors and
24     other missing persons, including, but not limited to,
25     missing endangered seniors in order to develop and improve
26     techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when
27     responding to reports of missing persons.
28         (6) Create a quality control program regarding
29     confirmation of missing person data, timeliness of entries
30     of missing person reports into LEADS, and performance
31     audits of all entering agencies.
32         (7) Upon completion of the report required by paragraph
33     (1), the Department of State Police shall immediately
34     forward the contents of the report to all of the following:

 

 

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1             (A) all law enforcement agencies that have
2         jurisdiction in the location where the missing person
3         lives and all law enforcement agencies that have
4         jurisdiction in the location where the missing person
5         was last seen;
6             (B) all law enforcement agencies to which the
7         person who made the notification concerning the
8         missing person requests the report be sent, if the
9         Department determines that the request is reasonable
10         in light of the information received;
11             (C) all law enforcement agencies that request a
12         copy of the report; and
13             (D) the National Crime Information Center's
14         Missing Person File, if appropriate.
15         (8) The Department of State Police shall begin an
16     investigation concerning the missing person not later than
17     24 hours after receiving notification of a missing person.
18     (c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board
19 shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel
20 of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated
21 missing endangered senior alert system established under this
22 Section.
23 (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-130, eff. 1-1-98; 90-372,
24 eff. 7-1-98; 90-590, eff. 1-1-00; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98; 90-793,
25 eff. 8-14-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
26     Section 10. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by
27 changing Section 10.10 as follows:
 
28     (50 ILCS 705/10.10)
29     Sec. 10.10. Training in child abduction and missing
30 endangered senior alert system. The Board shall conduct a
31 training program for law enforcement personnel of local
32 governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child

 

 

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1 abduction alert system developed under Section 2605-480 of the
2 Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code
3 of Illinois and the statewide coordinated missing endangered
4 senior alert system developed under Section 2605-375 of the
5 Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code
6 of Illinois.
7 (Source: P.A. 93-310, eff. 7-23-03.)
 
8     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
9 1, 2006.".