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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
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
24 Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of providing
25 electronic access by authorized entities to criminal justice
26 data repositories and effecting an immediate law enforcement
27 response to reports of missing persons, including lost, missing
28 or runaway minors and missing endangered seniors. The
29 Department shall implement an automatic data exchange system to
30 compile, to maintain, and to make available to other law
31 enforcement agencies for immediate dissemination data that can

 

 

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1 assist appropriate agencies in recovering missing persons and
2 provide access by authorized entities to various data
3 repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and
4 related purposes. To assist the Department in this effort,
5 funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
6     (b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the
7 Department shall do the following:
8         (1) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of
9     pertinent information regarding the report of a missing
10     person into LEADS. The report must include all of the
11     following:
12             (A) Relevant information obtained from the
13         notification concerning the missing person, including
14         all of the following:
15                 (i) a physical description of the missing
16             person;
17                 (ii) the date, time, and place that the missing
18             person was last seen; and
19                 (iii) the missing person's address.
20             (B) Information gathered by a preliminary
21         investigation, if one was made.
22             (C) A statement by the law enforcement officer in
23         charge stating the officer's assessment of the case
24         based on the evidence and information received.
25         The Department of State Police shall prepare the report
26     required by this paragraph (1) as soon as practical, but
27     not later than 5 hours after the Department receives
28     notification of a missing person.
29         (2) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide
30     or regional alert would be used in situations relating to
31     the disappearances of individuals, based on criteria and in
32     a format established by the Department. Such a format shall
33     include, but not be limited to, the age of the missing
34     person and the suspected circumstance of the
35     disappearance.
36         (3) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of

 

 

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1     missing persons shall be entered as soon as the minimum
2     level of data specified by the Department is available to
3     the reporting agency and that no waiting period for the
4     entry of the data exists.
5         (4) Compile and retain information regarding lost,
6     abducted, missing, or runaway minors in a separate data
7     file, in a manner that allows that information to be used
8     by law enforcement and other agencies deemed appropriate by
9     the Director, for investigative purposes. The information
10     shall include the disposition of all reported lost,
11     abducted, missing, or runaway minor cases.
12         (5) Compile and maintain an historic data repository
13     relating to lost, abducted, missing, or runaway minors and
14     other missing persons, including, but not limited to,
15     missing endangered seniors in order to develop and improve
16     techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when
17     responding to reports of missing persons.
18         (6) Create a quality control program regarding
19     confirmation of missing person data, timeliness of entries
20     of missing person reports into LEADS, and performance
21     audits of all entering agencies.
22         (7) Upon completion of the report required by paragraph
23     (1), the Department of State Police shall immediately
24     forward the contents of the report to all of the following:
25             (A) all law enforcement agencies that have
26         jurisdiction in the location where the missing person
27         lives and all law enforcement agencies that have
28         jurisdiction in the location where the missing person
29         was last seen;
30             (B) all law enforcement agencies to which the
31         person who made the notification concerning the
32         missing person requests the report be sent, if the
33         Department determines that the request is reasonable
34         in light of the information received;
35             (C) all law enforcement agencies that request a
36         copy of the report; and

 

 

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1             (D) the National Crime Information Center's
2         Missing Person File, if appropriate.
3         (8) The Department of State Police shall begin an
4     investigation concerning the missing person not later than
5     24 hours after receiving notification of a missing person.
6     (c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board
7 shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel
8 of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated
9 missing endangered senior alert system established under this
10 Section.
11 (Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-130, eff. 1-1-98; 90-372,
12 eff. 7-1-98; 90-590, eff. 1-1-00; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98; 90-793,
13 eff. 8-14-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
14     Section 10. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by
15 changing Section 10.10 as follows:
 
16     (50 ILCS 705/10.10)
17     Sec. 10.10. Training in child abduction and missing
18 endangered senior alert system. The Board shall conduct a
19 training program for law enforcement personnel of local
20 governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child
21 abduction alert system developed under Section 2605-480 of the
22 Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code
23 of Illinois and the statewide coordinated missing endangered
24 senior alert system developed under Section 2605-375 of the
25 Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code
26 of Illinois.
27 (Source: P.A. 93-310, eff. 7-23-03.)
 
28     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
29 1, 2006.