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the Department of
Children and Family Services;
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(7) One member appointed by the Attorney General |
representing the Office
of the Attorney General;
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(8) One member Two members appointed by the Attorney |
General who is a are licensed mental
health professional |
professionals with documented expertise in the treatment |
of sex
offenders;
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(9) Two members appointed by the Attorney General who |
are State's
Attorneys or assistant State's Attorneys, one |
representing juvenile court
matters and one representing |
felony court matters;
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(10) One member being the Cook County State's Attorney |
or his or her
designee;
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(11) One member being the Director of the State's |
Attorneys Appellate
Prosecutor or his or her designee;
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(12) One member being the Cook County Public Defender |
or his or her
designee;
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(13) Two members appointed by the Governor who are |
representatives
of law enforcement, one juvenile officer |
and one sex crime investigator;
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(14) Two members appointed by the Attorney General who |
are recognized
experts in the field of sexual assault and |
who can represent sexual assault
victims and victims' |
rights organizations;
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(15) One member being the State Appellate Defender or |
his or her
designee;
and
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(16) One member being the President of the Illinois |
Polygraph Society or
his or her designee;
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(16) (17) One member being the Executive Director of |
the Criminal Justice
Information Authority or his or her |
designee. ;
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(18) One member being the President of the Illinois |
Chapter of the
Association for the Treatment of Sexual |
Abusers or his or her designee; and
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(19) One member representing the Illinois Principal |
Association.
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(b) The Governor and the Attorney General shall appoint a |
presiding officer
for the Board
from among the board members |
appointed under subsection (a) of this
Section, which presiding |
officer shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor
and the |
Attorney
General.
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(c) Each member of the Board shall demonstrate substantial |
expertise and
experience in the field of sexual assault.
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(d) (1) Any member of the Board created in subsection (a) |
of this Section
who is appointed under paragraphs (1) through |
(7) of subsection (a) of
this
Section shall serve at the |
pleasure of the official who appointed that member,
for a term |
of 5 years and may be reappointed. The members shall serve
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without additional compensation.
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(2) Any member of the Board created in subsection (a) of |
this Section who
is appointed under paragraphs (8) through (14) |
of subsection (a) of this
Section shall serve for a term of 5 |
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years and may be reappointed. However, the terms of the members |
appointed under paragraphs (8) of subsection (a) of this |
Section shall end on the effective date of this amendatory Act |
of the 97th General Assembly. Within 30 days after the |
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General |
Assembly, the Attorney General shall appoint a member under |
paragraph (8) of subsection (a) of this Section to fill the |
vacancy created by this amendatory Act of the 97th General |
Assembly. A person who has previously served as a member of the |
Board may be reappointed. The terms of the President of the |
Illinois Polygraph Society or
his or her designee, the |
President of the Illinois Chapter of the
Association for the |
Treatment of Sexual Abusers or his or her designee, and the |
member representing the Illinois Principal Association end on |
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General |
Assembly. The members
shall serve without
compensation.
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(3) The travel costs associated with membership on the |
Board created in
subsection (a) of this Section will be |
reimbursed subject to availability of
funds.
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(e) The first meeting of this Board shall be held within 45 |
days of the
effective date of this Act.
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(f) The Board shall carry out the following duties:
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(1) Not later than December 31, 2001,
the
Board shall |
develop and prescribe separate standardized procedures for |
the
evaluation and identification of the offender and |
recommend behavior
management,
monitoring, and treatment
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based upon the knowledge that sex
offenders are
extremely |
habituated and that there is no known cure for the |
propensity to
commit sex abuse. The Board shall develop and |
implement measures of success
based upon a no-cure policy |
for intervention. The Board shall develop and
implement |
methods of intervention for sex offenders which have as a |
priority
the physical and psychological safety of victims |
and potential
victims and which are appropriate to the |
needs of the particular offender, so
long as there is no |
reduction of the safety of victims and potential victims.
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(2) Not later than December 31, 2001, the Board
shall |
develop separate guidelines and standards for a system of |
programs for
the evaluation and treatment
of both juvenile |
and adult sex
offenders which shall
be utilized
by |
offenders who are placed on probation, committed to the |
Department of
Corrections or Department of Human Services, |
or placed on mandatory
supervised release or parole. The |
programs
developed under this paragraph (f) shall be as |
flexible as possible so
that the programs may be utilized |
by each offender to prevent the offender
from harming |
victims and potential victims. The programs shall be |
structured
in such a manner that the programs provide a |
continuing monitoring process as
well as a continuum of |
counseling programs for each offender as that offender
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proceeds through the justice system. Also, the programs |
shall
be developed in such a manner that, to the extent |
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possible, the programs may be
accessed by all offenders in |
the justice system.
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(3) There is established the Sex Offender Management |
Board Fund in the
State Treasury into which funds received |
under any provision of law or from
public or private |
sources
shall be deposited, and from which funds
shall be |
appropriated for the purposes set forth in Section 19 of |
this Act,
Section 5-6-3 of the Unified Code of Corrections, |
and Section 3 of the Sex
Offender Registration Act, and the |
remainder shall be
appropriated to the Sex Offender |
Management Board for planning and
research.
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(4) The Board shall develop and prescribe a plan to |
research and analyze
the effectiveness of the evaluation, |
identification, and counseling procedures
and programs |
developed under this Act. The Board shall also develop and
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prescribe a system for implementation of the guidelines and |
standards developed
under paragraph (2) of this subsection |
(f) and for tracking offenders who
have been subjected to |
evaluation, identification, and treatment
under
this Act. |
In addition, the Board shall develop a system for |
monitoring
offender behaviors and offender adherence to |
prescribed behavioral changes.
The results of the tracking |
and behavioral monitoring shall be a part of any
analysis |
made under this paragraph (4).
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(g) The Board may promulgate rules as are necessary to |
carry
out the duties of the Board.
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