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1    AN ACT concerning finance.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 2. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil
5Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
62605-375 as follows:
 
7    (20 ILCS 2605/2605-375)  (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
8    Sec. 2605-375. Missing persons; Law Enforcement Agencies
9Data System (LEADS).
10    (a) To establish and maintain a statewide Law Enforcement
11Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of providing
12electronic access by authorized entities to criminal justice
13data repositories and effecting an immediate law enforcement
14response to reports of missing persons, including lost, missing
15or runaway minors and missing endangered seniors. The
16Department shall implement an automatic data exchange system to
17compile, to maintain, and to make available to other law
18enforcement agencies for immediate dissemination data that can
19assist appropriate agencies in recovering missing persons and
20provide access by authorized entities to various data
21repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and
22related purposes. To assist the Department in this effort,
23funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.

 

 

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1Funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund to
2the Department to finance any of its lawful purposes or
3functions in relation to defraying the expenses associated with
4establishing, maintaining, and supporting the issuance of
5electronic citations.
6    (b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the
7Department shall provide a uniform reporting format (LEADS) for
8the entry of pertinent information regarding the report of a
9missing person into LEADS. The report must include all of the
10following:
11        (1) Relevant information obtained from the
12    notification concerning the missing person, including all
13    of the following:
14            (A) a physical description of the missing person;
15            (B) the date, time, and place that the missing
16        person was last seen; and
17            (C) the missing person's address.
18        (2) Information gathered by a preliminary
19    investigation, if one was made.
20        (3) A statement by the law enforcement officer in
21    charge stating the officer's assessment of the case based
22    on the evidence and information received.
23    (b-5) The Department of State Police shall:
24        (1) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide
25    or regional alert would be used in situations relating to
26    the disappearances of individuals, based on criteria and in

 

 

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1    a format established by the Department. Such a format shall
2    include, but not be limited to, the age of the missing
3    person and the suspected circumstance of the
4    disappearance.
5        (2) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of
6    missing persons shall be entered as soon as the minimum
7    level of data specified by the Department is available to
8    the reporting agency and that no waiting period for the
9    entry of the data exists.
10        (3) Compile and retain information regarding lost,
11    abducted, missing, or runaway minors in a separate data
12    file, in a manner that allows that information to be used
13    by law enforcement and other agencies deemed appropriate by
14    the Director, for investigative purposes. The information
15    shall include the disposition of all reported lost,
16    abducted, missing, or runaway minor cases.
17        (4) Compile and maintain an historic data repository
18    relating to lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minors and
19    other missing persons, including, but not limited to,
20    missing endangered seniors, in order to develop and improve
21    techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when
22    responding to reports of missing persons.
23        (5) Create a quality control program regarding
24    confirmation of missing person data, timeliness of entries
25    of missing person reports into LEADS, and performance
26    audits of all entering agencies.

 

 

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1    (c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board
2shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel
3of local governmental agencies in the Missing Persons
4Identification Act.
5    (d) The Department of State Police shall perform the duties
6prescribed in the Missing Persons Identification Act, subject
7to appropriation.
8(Source: P.A. 94-145, eff. 1-1-06; 95-192, eff. 8-16-07.)
 
9    Section 10. The Clerks of Courts Act is amended by changing
10Section 27.3e as follows:
 
11    (705 ILCS 105/27.3e)
12    Sec. 27.3e. Electronic citation fee. As used in this
13Section, "electronic citation" means the process of
14transmitting traffic, misdemeanor, municipal ordinance,
15conservation, or other citations and law enforcement data via
16electronic means to a circuit court clerk.
17    To defray the expense of establishing and maintaining
18electronic citations, each Circuit Court Clerk shall charge and
19collect an electronic citation fee of $5. Such fee shall be
20paid by the defendant in any traffic, misdemeanor, municipal
21ordinance, or conservation case upon a judgment of guilty or
22grant of supervision. This fee shall be in addition to all
23other fees and charges and assessable as costs and shall not be
24subject to disbursement under Section 27.5 or 27.6 of this Act.

 

 

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160% of the fee shall be deposited into the Circuit Court Clerk
2Electronic Citation Fund and 40% of the fee shall be disbursed
3to the arresting agency to defray expenses related to the
4establishment and maintenance of electronic citations. The
5Circuit Court Clerk shall be the custodian, ex officio, of the
6Circuit Court Clerk Electronic Citation Fund and shall use the
7Fund to perform the duties required by the office for
8establishing and maintaining electronic citations. The Fund
9shall be audited by the County's auditor. The Circuit Court
10Clerk shall not charge and collect an electronic citation fee
11if the County Board has by ordinance elected not to be subject
12to this Section. Any funds collected under this Section before
13such an ordinance takes effect shall be disbursed to the
14Illinois State Police for expenses related to the establishment
15and maintenance of electronic citations.
16    With respect to funds designated for, as well as citations
17issued by, the Department of State Police, the moneys shall be
18remitted by the circuit court clerk to the State Treasurer
19within one month after receipt for deposit into the LEADS
20Maintenance Fund.
21(Source: P.A. 96-1210, eff. 1-1-11.)
 
22    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23becoming law.