102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB0152
 
Introduced 1/22/2021, by Rep. Joe Sosnowski
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



730 ILCS 152/115

     Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law.  Provides that a sex offender's residence and place of employment shall be entered into the Statewide Sex Offender Database.  Provides that the Illinois State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database searchable via a mapping system which identifies registered sex offenders living or working (rather than just living) within 5 miles of an identified address.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is 
5amended  by changing Section 115 as follows:
 



6    (730 ILCS 152/115)


7    Sec. 115. Sex offender database. 

8    (a) The Department of State Police
shall establish and 
9maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for
the
purpose of 
10identifying sex offenders and making that information, 
11including sex offenders' residences and places of employment,

12available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of 
13this Law.  The
Database shall be created from the Law 
14Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)
established under 
15Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act

16of 1984.  The Department of State Police shall examine its 
17LEADS database for
persons registered as sex offenders under 
18the Sex Offender Registration Act and
shall identify those who 
19are sex offenders and shall add all the
information, including 
20photographs if available, on those sex offenders to
the 
21Statewide Sex
Offender
Database.

22    (b) The Department of State Police must make the 
23information contained in
the
Statewide Sex Offender Database 
 
 
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1accessible on the Internet by means of a
hyperlink
labeled 
2"Sex Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web 
3home
page. The Department must make the information contained 
4in the Statewide Sex Offender Database searchable via a 
5mapping system which identifies registered sex offenders 
6living or working within 5 miles of an identified address. The 
7Department of State Police must update that information as it 
8deems
necessary.

9    The Department of State Police may require that a person 
10who seeks access to
the sex
offender information submit 
11biographical information about himself or
herself before

12permitting access to the sex offender information.  The 
13Department of State Police must promulgate rules
in accordance 
14with the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act to implement 
15this
subsection
(b)
and those rules must include procedures to 
16ensure that the information in the
database is accurate.

17    (c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender 
18Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to 
19educate all those entities involved in the Sex Offender 
20Registration Program.

21(Source: P.A. 93-979, eff. 8-20-04; 94-994, eff. 1-1-07.)