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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB3915
Introduced 2/26/2009, by Rep. Emily McAsey SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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325 ILCS 40/6 |
from Ch. 23, par. 2256 |
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Amends the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984. Provides that the Department of State Police shall develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide or regional alert
would be used in situations relating to sex offenses committed by child sex offenders or violent offenses against youth in which the offenders have not been apprehended utilizing the information about child sex offenders and violent offenders against youth entered into LEADS.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning children.
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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 Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery |
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| Act of 1984 is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
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| (325 ILCS 40/6) (from Ch. 23, par. 2256)
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| Sec. 6. The Department shall:
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| (a) Establish and maintain a statewide Law Enforcement |
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| Agencies Data
System (LEADS) for the purpose of effecting an |
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| immediate law enforcement
response to reports of missing |
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| children. The Department shall implement an
automated data |
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| exchange system to compile, to maintain and to make
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| for dissemination to Illinois and out-of-State law enforcement
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| agencies, data which can assist appropriate agencies in |
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| recovering missing
children.
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| (b) Establish contacts and exchange information regarding |
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| lost, missing or
runaway children with nationally recognized |
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| "missing person and runaway"
service organizations and monitor |
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| national research and publicize important
developments.
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| (c) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of |
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| pertinent
information regarding reports of missing children |
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| into LEADS.
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| (d) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide or |
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| regional alert
would be used in situations relating to the |
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| disappearances of children,
based on criteria and in a format |
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| established by the Department. Such a
format shall include, but |
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| not be limited to, the age and physical description
of the |
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| missing child and the suspected circumstances of the |
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| disappearance.
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| (d-5) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide or |
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| regional alert
would be used in situations relating to sex |
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| offenses committed by child sex offenders as defined in Section |
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| 11-9.4 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or violent offenses against |
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| youth as defined in Section 5 of the Child Murderer and Violent |
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| Offender Against Youth Registration Act in which the offenders |
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| have not been apprehended utilizing the information entered |
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| into LEADS under paragraphs (k) and (l) of this Section. |
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| (e) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of |
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| missing persons
shall be entered as soon as the minimum level |
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| of data specified by the
Department is available to the |
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| reporting agency and that no waiting period
for entry of such |
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| data exists.
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| (f) Provide a procedure for prompt confirmation of the |
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| receipt and entry of
the missing child report into LEADS to the |
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| parent or guardian of the missing
child.
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| (g) Compile and retain information regarding missing |
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| children in a
separate data file, in a manner that allows such |
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| information to be used by
law enforcement and other agencies |
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| deemed appropriate by the Director, for
investigative |
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| purposes. Such files shall be updated to reflect and include
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| information relating to the disposition of the case.
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| (h) Compile and maintain an historic data repository |
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| relating to missing
children in order (1) to develop and |
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| improve techniques utilized by law
enforcement agencies when |
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| responding to reports of missing children and (2)
to provide a |
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| factual and statistical base for research that would address
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| the problem of missing children.
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| (i) Create a quality control program to monitor timeliness |
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| of entries of
missing children reports into LEADS and conduct |
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| performance audits of all
entering agencies.
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| (j) Prepare a periodic information bulletin concerning |
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| missing children
who it determines may be present in this |
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| State, compiling such bulletin from
information contained in |
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| both the National Crime Information Center computer
and from |
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| reports, alerts and other information entered into LEADS or
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| otherwise compiled and retained by the Department pursuant to |
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| this Act. The
bulletin shall indicate the name, age, physical |
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| description, suspected
circumstances of disappearance if that |
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| information is available, a photograph
if one is available, the |
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| name of the law enforcement agency investigating the
case, and |
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| such other information as the Director considers appropriate
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| concerning each missing child who the Department determines may |
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| be present in
this State. The Department shall send a copy of |
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| each periodic information
bulletin to the State Board of |
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| Education for its use in accordance with Section
2-3.48 of the |
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| School Code. The Department shall provide a copy of the |
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| bulletin,
upon request, to law enforcement agencies of this or |
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| any other state or of the
federal government, and may provide a |
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| copy of the bulletin, upon request, to
other persons or |
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| entities, if deemed appropriate by the Director, and may
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| establish limitations on its use and a reasonable fee for so |
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| providing the
same, except that no fee shall be charged for |
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| providing the periodic
information bulletin to the State Board |
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| of Education, appropriate units of
local government, State |
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| agencies, or law enforcement agencies of this or any
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| state or of the federal government.
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| (k) Provide for the entry into LEADS of the names and |
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| addresses of sex
offenders as defined in the Sex Offender |
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| Registration Act , including child sex offenders as defined in |
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| Section 11-9.4 of the Criminal Code of 1961, who are required |
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register under that Act. The information shall be |
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| immediately accessible to
law enforcement agencies and peace |
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| officers of this State or any other state or
of the federal |
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| government. Similar information may be requested from any other
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| state or of the federal government for purposes of this Act.
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| (l) Provide for the entry into LEADS of the names and |
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| addresses of violent offenders against youth as defined in the |
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| Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration |
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| Act who are required to
register under that Act. The |
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| information shall be immediately accessible to
law enforcement |
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| agencies and peace officers of this State or any other state or
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