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| Public Act 098-0921 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is | ||||
amended by changing Section 116 as follows: | ||||
(730 ILCS 152/116) | ||||
Sec. 116. Missing Sex Offender Database. | ||||
(a) The Department of State Police
shall establish and | ||||
maintain a Statewide Missing Sex Offender Database for
the
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purpose of identifying missing sex offenders and making that | ||||
information
available to the persons specified in Sections 120 | ||||
and 125 of this Law. The
Database shall be created from the Law | ||||
Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)
established under | ||||
Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act
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of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS | ||||
database for
persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex | ||||
Offender Registration Act and
shall identify those who are sex | ||||
offenders and who have not complied with the provisions of | ||||
Section 6 of that Act or whose address can not be verified | ||||
under Section 8-5 of that Act and shall add all the
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information, including photographs if available, on those | ||||
missing sex offenders to
the Statewide Sex
Offender
Database.
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(b) The Department of State Police must make the | ||||
information contained in
the
Statewide Missing Sex Offender | ||
Database accessible on the Internet by means of a
hyperlink
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labeled "Missing Sex Offender Information" on the Department's | ||
World Wide Web home
page and on the Attorney General's I-SORT | ||
page. The Department of State Police must update that | ||
information as it deems
necessary. The Internet page shall also | ||
include information that rewards may be are available to | ||
persons who inform the Department of State Police or a local | ||
law enforcement agency of the whereabouts of a missing sex | ||
offender.
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The Department of State Police may require that a person | ||
who seeks access to
the missing sex
offender information submit | ||
biographical information about himself or
herself before
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permitting access to the missing sex offender information. The | ||
Department of State Police must promulgate rules
in accordance | ||
with the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act to implement | ||
this
subsection
(b)
and those rules must include procedures to | ||
ensure that the information in the
database is accurate. | ||
(c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender | ||
Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate | ||
all those entities involved in the Missing Sex Offender | ||
Registration Program.
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(Source: P.A. 95-817, eff. 8-14-08.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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