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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is | ||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 116 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (730 ILCS 152/116) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 116. Missing Sex Offender Database. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) The Department of State Police
shall establish and | ||||||
| 9 | maintain a Statewide Missing Sex Offender Database for
the
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| 10 | purpose of identifying missing sex offenders and making that | ||||||
| 11 | information
available to the persons specified in Sections 120 | ||||||
| 12 | and 125 of this Law. The
Database shall be created from the Law | ||||||
| 13 | Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)
established under | ||||||
| 14 | Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act
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| 15 | of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS | ||||||
| 16 | database for
persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex | ||||||
| 17 | Offender Registration Act and
shall identify those who are sex | ||||||
| 18 | offenders and who have not complied with the provisions of | ||||||
| 19 | Section 6 of that Act or whose address can not be verified | ||||||
| 20 | under Section 8-5 of that Act and shall add all the
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| 21 | information, including photographs if available, on those | ||||||
| 22 | missing sex offenders to
the Statewide Sex
Offender
Database.
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| 23 | (b) The Department of State Police must make the | ||||||
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| 1 | information contained in
the
Statewide Missing Sex Offender | ||||||
| 2 | Database accessible on the Internet by means of a
hyperlink
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| 3 | labeled "Missing Sex Offender Information" on the Department's | ||||||
| 4 | World Wide Web home
page and on the Attorney General's I-SORT | ||||||
| 5 | page. The Department of State Police must update that | ||||||
| 6 | information as it deems
necessary. The Internet page shall also | ||||||
| 7 | include information that rewards may be are available to | ||||||
| 8 | persons who inform the Department of State Police or a local | ||||||
| 9 | law enforcement agency of the whereabouts of a missing sex | ||||||
| 10 | offender.
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| 11 | The Department of State Police may require that a person | ||||||
| 12 | who seeks access to
the missing sex
offender information submit | ||||||
| 13 | biographical information about himself or
herself before
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| 14 | permitting access to the missing sex offender information. The | ||||||
| 15 | Department of State Police must promulgate rules
in accordance | ||||||
| 16 | with the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act to implement | ||||||
| 17 | this
subsection
(b)
and those rules must include procedures to | ||||||
| 18 | ensure that the information in the
database is accurate. | ||||||
| 19 | (c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender | ||||||
| 20 | Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate | ||||||
| 21 | all those entities involved in the Missing Sex Offender | ||||||
| 22 | Registration Program.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 95-817, eff. 8-14-08.)
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| 24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 25 | becoming law.
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