95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1369


 
Introduced 2/21/2007, by Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














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    Amends the Statewide Organized Gang Database Act. Requires the Department of State Police to develop a standardized, state-wide gang reporting system.  Provides that the system must record gang members and gang activity and facilitate the arrest and prosecution of gang members.
















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    AN ACT concerning State government.

 
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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 Statewide Organized Gang Database Act is 
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amended  by changing Section 10 as follows:
 



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    (20 ILCS 2640/10)



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    Sec. 10. Duties of the Department. The Department may:

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    (a) provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of 
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pertinent
information regarding the report of an arrested 
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organized gang member or
organized gang affiliate into SWORD;

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    (b) notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of 
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arrested
organized gang members or organized gang affiliates 
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shall be entered into
the database as soon as the minimum level 
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of data specified by the
Department is available to the 
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reporting agency, and that no waiting period
for the entry of 
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that data exists;

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    (c) develop and implement a policy for notifying law 
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enforcement
agencies of the emergence of new organized gangs, 
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or the change of a name or
other identifying sign by an 
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existing organized gang;

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    (d) compile and retain information regarding organized 
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gangs and their
members and affiliates, in a manner that allows 
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the information to be used
by law enforcement and other 
 


 






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agencies, deemed appropriate by the Director,
for 
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investigative purposes;

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    (e) compile and maintain a historic data repository 
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relating to
organized gangs and their members and affiliates in 
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order to develop and
improve techniques utilized by law 
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enforcement agencies and prosecutors in
the investigation, 
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apprehension, and prosecution of members and affiliates
of 
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organized gangs;

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    (f) create a quality control program regarding 
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confirmation of organized
gang membership and organized gang 
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affiliation data, timeliness and
accuracy of information 
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entered into SWORD, and performance audits of all
entering 
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agencies;

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    (g) locate all law enforcement agencies that could, in the 
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opinion of
the Director, benefit from access to SWORD, and 
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notify them of its
existence; and

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    (h) cooperate with all law enforcement agencies wishing to 
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gain access
to the SWORD system, and facilitate their entry 
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into the system and their
continued maintenance of access to 
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it; and .

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    (i) develop a standardized, state-wide gang reporting 
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system that  records gang members and gang activity and 
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facilitates the arrest and prosecution of gang members.

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(Source: P.A. 87-932.)