HB5564 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB097 16324 RLC 61479 b

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5564

Introduced 2/15/2012, by Rep. Deborah Mell

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 2605/2605-305

was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part

Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of State Police may make the information contained in the Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database (SWORD) electronically available to the general public (rather than only prosecutors and law enforcement agencies).

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 2605-305 as follows:

(20 ILCS 2605/2605-305) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)

Sec. 2605-305. Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database (SWORD). The Department may establish and maintain, within the Department, a Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database (SWORD) for the purpose of tracking organized criminal gangs and their memberships. Information in the database may include, but not be limited to, the name, last known address, birth date, physical descriptions (such as scars, marks, or tattoos), officer safety information, organized gang affiliation, and entering agency identifier. The Department may develop, in consultation with the Criminal Justice Information Authority, and in a form and manner prescribed by the Department, an automated data exchange system to compile, to maintain, and to make this information electronically available to prosecutors, and to other law enforcement agencies, and the general public. The information may be used by authorized agencies to combat the operations of organized criminal gangs statewide.

(Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-130, eff. 1-1-98; 90-372, eff. 7-1-98; 90-590, eff. 1-1-00; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98; 90-793, eff. 8-14-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)