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Public Act 094-0145 |
HB2241 Enrolled |
LRB094 03280 RCE 33281 b |
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the
Civil |
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Sections |
2605-5 and 2605-375 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 2605/2605-5)
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Sec. 2605-5. Definitions. In this Law:
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"Department" means the Department of State Police.
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"Director" means the Director of State Police. |
"Missing endangered senior" means an individual 65 years of |
age or older who is reported missing to a law enforcement |
agency and is, or is believed to be: |
(1) a temporary or permanent resident of Illinois; |
(2) at a location that cannot be determined by an |
individual familiar with the missing individual; and |
(3) incapable of returning to the individual's |
residence without assistance.
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(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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(20 ILCS 2605/2605-375) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
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Sec. 2605-375. Missing persons; Law Enforcement Agencies |
Data System
(LEADS).
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(a) To establish and maintain a statewide Law Enforcement
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Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of providing |
electronic access
by authorized entities to criminal justice |
data repositories and effecting an
immediate law enforcement |
response to reports of missing persons, including
lost, missing |
or runaway minors and missing endangered seniors . The |
Department shall implement an automatic
data exchange system to |
compile, to maintain, and to make available to
other law
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enforcement agencies for immediate dissemination data that can
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assist
appropriate agencies in recovering missing persons and |
provide access by
authorized entities to various data |
repositories available through LEADS for
criminal justice and |
related purposes. To assist the Department in
this effort, |
funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
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(b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the
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Department shall do the following:
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(1) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of |
pertinent
information regarding the report of a missing |
person into LEADS. The report must include all of the |
following:
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(A) Relevant information obtained from the |
notification concerning the missing person, including |
all of the following: |
(i) a physical description of the missing |
person; |
(ii) the date, time, and place that the missing |
person was last seen; and |
(iii) the missing person's address. |
(B) Information gathered by a preliminary |
investigation, if one was made. |
(C) A statement by the law enforcement officer in |
charge stating the officer's assessment of the case |
based on the evidence and information received. |
The Department of State Police shall prepare the report |
required by this paragraph (1) as soon as practical, but |
not later than 5 hours after the Department receives |
notification of a missing person.
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(2) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide |
or regional alert
would be used in situations relating to |
the disappearances of individuals,
based on criteria and in |
a format established by the Department. Such a
format shall |
include, but not be limited to, the age of the missing |
person
and the suspected circumstance of the |
disappearance.
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(3) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of |
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missing persons
shall be entered as soon as the minimum |
level of data specified by the
Department is available to |
the reporting agency and that no waiting period
for the |
entry of the data exists.
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(4) Compile and retain information regarding lost, |
abducted, missing,
or
runaway minors in a separate data |
file, in a manner that allows that
information to be used |
by law enforcement and other agencies deemed
appropriate by |
the Director, for investigative purposes. The
information
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shall include the disposition of all reported lost, |
abducted, missing, or
runaway minor cases.
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(5) Compile and maintain an historic data repository |
relating to lost,
abducted, missing, or runaway minors and |
other missing persons , including, but not limited to, |
missing endangered seniors, in order to
develop and improve |
techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when
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responding to reports of missing persons.
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(6) Create a quality control program regarding |
confirmation of missing
person data, timeliness of entries |
of missing person reports into LEADS,
and
performance |
audits of all entering agencies. |
(7) Upon completion of the report required by paragraph |
(1), the Department of State Police shall immediately |
forward the contents of the report to all of the following: |
(A) all law enforcement agencies that have |
jurisdiction in the location where the missing person |
lives and all law enforcement agencies that have |
jurisdiction in the location where the missing person |
was last seen; |
(B) all law enforcement agencies to which the |
person who made the notification concerning the |
missing person requests the report be sent, if the |
Department determines that the request is reasonable |
in light of the information received; |
(C) all law enforcement agencies that request a |
copy of the report; and |
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(D) the National Crime Information Center's |
Missing Person File, if appropriate.
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(8) The Department of State Police shall begin an |
investigation concerning the missing person not later than |
24 hours after receiving notification of a missing person. |
(c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board |
shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel |
of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated |
missing endangered senior alert system established under this |
Section.
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(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.)
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Section 10. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by |
changing Section 10.10 as follows:
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(50 ILCS 705/10.10)
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Sec. 10.10. Training in child abduction and missing |
endangered senior alert system. The Board shall
conduct a
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training program for law enforcement personnel of local |
governmental agencies
in the
statewide coordinated child |
abduction alert system developed under Section
2605-480 of
the |
Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code |
of
Illinois and the statewide coordinated missing endangered |
senior alert system developed under Section 2605-375 of the |
Department of State Police Law of the
Civil Administrative Code |
of Illinois .
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(Source: P.A. 93-310, eff. 7-23-03.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January |
1, 2006.
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