SB1624 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1624

Introduced 2/23/2005, by Sen. Louis S. Viverito

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 2605/2605-480
50 ILCS 705/10.10

Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of State Police to develop a statewide emergency alert system for missing endangered seniors, to develop a community outreach program to promote awareness among State citizens of senior endangerment prevention and response, and to appoint a Child and Senior Safety Coordinator (rather than a Child Safety Coordinator). Requires the Department to prepare a report containing certain information when it receives a notification of a missing endangered senior and to forward the report to certain other parties. Requires the Department to begin an investigation concerning the missing endangered senior no later than 24 hours after receiving notification of the missing endangered senior. Provides a definition of "missing endangered senior". Amends the Illinois Police Training Act to require the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to provide a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child abduction and missing endangered senior alert system (rather than the child abduction alert system). Effective January 1, 2006.

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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 2605-480 as follows:

(20 ILCS 2605/2605-480)

Sec. 2605-480. Statewide kidnapping alert and prevention program; Child and Senior Safety Coordinator; reports of missing endangered seniors.

(a) The Department of State Police shall develop a coordinated program for a statewide emergency alert system when a child is missing or kidnapped or a senior is missing and endangered. The system shall include, but is not limited to, the use in coordination with the Illinois Department of Transportation, of electronic message signs on roads and highways in the vicinity of a child abduction or the vicinity where a missing endangered senior was last seen to immediately provide critical information to the public.

(b) The Department of State Police shall establish an AMBER Plan Task Force to monitor and review the implementation and operation of the system developed under subsection (a), including procedures, budgetary requirements, and response protocols. The Task Force shall also develop additional network resources for use in the system.

(c) The Department of State Police, in coordination with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, shall develop and implement a community outreach program to promote awareness among citizens of the State the State's parents and children of child abduction and senior endangerment prevention and response.

(d) The Department of State Police, in coordination with the State Board of Education, shall develop child abduction prevention instruction for inclusion in elementary and secondary school curricula throughout the State. The Department and State Board of Education shall encourage the inclusion of the child abduction prevention instruction in private elementary and secondary school curricula throughout the State.

(e) The Department shall appoint a Child and Senior Safety Coordinator to assist in the establishment of State standards for child and senior safety from kidnap, and abduction, and endangerment and to advocate for the achievement of those standards. The Child and Senior Safety Coordinator shall have the qualifications and experience that the Department shall require by rule. The Child and Senior Safety Coordinator shall receive no compensation but shall be reimbursed for his or her expenses from the Department's operations budget. No funds shall be appropriated solely for the expenses of the Child and Senior Safety Coordinator. The Department shall provide technical assistance for the Child and Senior Safety Coordinator from its existing resources.

(f) If the Department of State Police receives a notification concerning a missing endangered senior, it shall prepare a report on the missing endangered senior. The report must include all of the following:

(1) Relevant information obtained from the notification concerning the missing endangered senior, including all of the following:

(A) a physical description of the missing endangered senior;

(B) the date, time, and place that the missing endangered senior was last seen; and

(C) the missing endangered senior's address.

(2) Information gathered by a preliminary investigation, if one was made.

(3) 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 subsection (f) as soon as practicable, but not later than 5 hours after the Department receives notification of a missing endangered senior.

(g) Upon completion of the report required by subsection (f) the Department of State Police shall immediately forward the contents of the report to all of the following:

(1) all law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the location where the missing endangered senior lives and all law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in the location where the missing endangered senior was last seen;

(2) all law enforcement agencies to which the person who made the notification concerning the missing endangered senior requests the report be sent, if the Department determines that the request is reasonable in light of the information received;

(3) all law enforcement agencies that request a copy of the report; and

(4) the National Crime Information Center's Missing Person File, if appropriate.

(h) The Department of State Police shall begin an investigation concerning the missing endangered senior not later than 24 hours after receiving notification of a missing endangered senior.

(i) For the purposes of this Section, "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.

(Source: P.A. 92-259, eff. 1-1-02; 92-468, eff. 8-22-01; 93-310, eff. 7-23-03.)

Section 10. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended by changing Section 10.10 as follows:

(50 ILCS 705/10.10)

Sec. 10.10. Training in child abduction and missing endangered senior alert system. The Board shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child abduction and missing endangered senior alert system developed under Section 2605-480 of the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.

(Source: P.A. 93-310, eff. 7-23-03.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 2006.