102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB5421

 

Introduced 1/31/2022, by Rep. Jawaharial Williams

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
325 ILCS 5/7.2  from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2

    Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, whenever a child protective investigator of a Child Protective Service Unit must visit a home or residence to investigate a report of abuse or neglect, at least one local law enforcement officer must accompany the child protective investigator to offer assistance and must remain with the child protective investigator for the duration of the visit until the child protective investigator is safely clear of the home or residence.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning children.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act is
5amended by changing Section 7.2 as follows:
 
6    (325 ILCS 5/7.2)  (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2)
7    Sec. 7.2. The Department shall establish a Child
8Protective Service Unit within each geographic region as
9designated by the Director of the Department. The Child
10Protective Service Unit shall perform those functions assigned
11by this Act to it and only such others that would further the
12purposes of this Act. It shall have a sufficient staff of
13qualified personnel to fulfill the purpose of this Act and be
14organized in such a way as to maximize the continuity of
15responsibility, care and service of the individual workers
16toward the individual children and families.
17    The Child Protective Service Unit shall designate members
18of each unit to receive specialty training to serve as special
19consultants to unit staff and the public in the areas of child
20sexual abuse, child deaths and injuries, and out-of-home
21investigations.
22    Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary,
23whenever a child protective investigator of a Child Protective

 

 

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1Service Unit must visit a home or residence to investigate a
2report of abuse or neglect, at least one local law enforcement
3officer must accompany the child protective investigator to
4offer assistance and must remain with the child protective
5investigator for the duration of the visit until the child
6protective investigator is safely clear of the home or
7residence. If a child protective investigator of a Child
8Protective Service Unit is unable to obtain assistance from
9other unit members when responding to a high-risk report of
10child abuse or neglect and the child protective investigator
11has a reasonable belief or suspicion that a subject named in
12the report has the potential for violence, the child
13protective investigator may request assistance from local law
14enforcement officers to be provided at a mutually available
15time. Law enforcement officers shall, upon request, make all
16reasonable efforts to assist the child protective investigator
17in receiving law enforcement assistance from any other police
18jurisdiction that is outside the accompanying officers'
19primary jurisdiction.
20(Source: P.A. 100-625, eff. 7-20-18.)