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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB5837
Introduced 09/26/06, by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide on its Sex Offender Information web page a form that allows a person who seeks access to sex offender information to be notified by e-mail of when a sex offender changes residence, employment, or school attendance to a location within a particular zip code or within a specified distance from an address. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide such information by e-mail notification to a person who completes the form.
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HB5837 |
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LRB094 21414 RLC 59773 b |
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| AN ACT concerning sex offenders.
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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 Sex Offender Community Notification Law is |
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| amended by changing Section 115 as follows:
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| (730 ILCS 152/115)
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| Sec. 115. Sex offender database.
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| (a) The Department of State Police
shall establish and |
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| maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for
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purpose of |
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| identifying sex offenders and making that information
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| available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of |
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| this Law. The
Database shall be created from the Law |
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| Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)
established under |
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| Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act
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| of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS |
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| database for
persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex |
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| Offender Registration Act and
shall identify those who are sex |
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| offenders and shall add all the
information, including |
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| photographs if available, on those sex offenders to
the |
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| Statewide Sex
Offender
Database.
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| (b) The Department of State Police must make the |
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| information contained in
the
Statewide Sex Offender Database |
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| accessible on the Internet by means of a
hyperlink
labeled "Sex |
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| Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home
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| page. The Department must make the information contained in the |
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| Statewide Sex Offender Database searchable via a mapping system |
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| which identifies registered sex offenders living within 5 miles |
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| of an identified address. The Department of State Police must |
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| update that information as it deems
necessary.
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| The Department of State Police may require that a person |
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| who seeks access to
the sex
offender information submit |
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| biographical information about himself or
herself before
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