Full Text of SB3145 98th General Assembly
SB3145 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 SB3145 Introduced 2/11/2014, by Sen. Mattie Hunter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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325 ILCS 5/7.14 | from Ch. 23, par. 2057.14 |
325 ILCS 5/7.15 | from Ch. 23, par. 2057.15 |
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Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall, by rule, establish conditions under which an indicated finding that is properly appealed may be expunged upon completion of a course of services prescribed by the Department. Provides that notwithstanding the expiration of the deadline for appealing an indicated report and notwithstanding the previous issuance of a non-appealable final administrative decision denying a request to expunge an indicated report, and pursuant to the Child Protective Service Unit's authority to amend reports, the Director of the Department or his or her designee shall have the exclusive discretion, on the ground of manifest injustice, to expunge from the central register either an indicated report or the name of a specified perpetrator or to reduce the length of time for which the specified perpetrator's name is to remain registered on the central register. Further provides that in the alternative, the Director or his or her designee shall have the exclusive discretion to direct that the issue of expungement of an indicated report or of expungement of the name of a specified perpetrator be re-opened for an evidentiary hearing on the merits. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning children.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Sections 7.14 and 7.15 as follows:
| 6 | | (325 ILCS 5/7.14) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.14)
| 7 | | Sec. 7.14. All reports in the central register shall be | 8 | | classified in one
of three categories: "indicated", | 9 | | "unfounded" or "undetermined", as the
case may be. After the | 10 | | report is classified, the person making the
classification | 11 | | shall determine whether the child named in the
report is the | 12 | | subject of an action under Article II of the Juvenile Court
Act | 13 | | of 1987. If the child is the subject of an action under Article | 14 | | II of the
Juvenile Court Act, the Department shall, within 45 | 15 | | days of classification of the report, transmit a copy of the | 16 | | report to
the guardian ad litem appointed for the child under | 17 | | Section 2-17 of the
Juvenile Court Act. All information | 18 | | identifying the subjects of an unfounded
report shall be | 19 | | expunged from the register
forthwith, except as provided in | 20 | | Section 7.7.
Unfounded reports may only be made available to | 21 | | the Child
Protective Service Unit when investigating a | 22 | | subsequent report of suspected
abuse or maltreatment involving | 23 | | a child named in the unfounded report; and to
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| 1 | | the report, provided the Department has not expunged the file | 2 | | in accordance with Section 7.7. The Child Protective
Service | 3 | | Unit shall not indicate the subsequent report solely based upon | 4 | | the
existence of the prior unfounded report or reports. | 5 | | Notwithstanding any other
provision of law to the contrary, an | 6 | | unfounded report shall not be admissible
in any judicial or | 7 | | administrative proceeding or action.
Identifying information | 8 | | on all other records shall be
removed from the register no | 9 | | later than 5 years after the report is indicated.
However, if | 10 | | another report is received involving the same child, his | 11 | | sibling
or offspring, or a child in the care of the persons | 12 | | responsible for the
child's welfare, or involving the same | 13 | | alleged offender, the
identifying
information may be | 14 | | maintained in the register
until 5 years after the subsequent | 15 | | case or report is closed. | 16 | | The Department shall, by rule, prescribe retention periods | 17 | | of no longer than 2 years in all categories of cases in which | 18 | | the differential response program, authorized under subsection | 19 | | (a-5) of Section 7.4, has operated, if any. In addition, the | 20 | | Department shall, by rule, establish conditions under which an | 21 | | indicated finding that is properly appealed under Section 7.16 | 22 | | may be expunged upon completion of a course of services | 23 | | prescribed by the Department.
| 24 | | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, | 25 | | identifying
information in indicated reports involving serious | 26 | | physical injury to a child as defined by the
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| 1 | | rules, may be retained longer than 5 years after the report
is | 2 | | indicated or after the subsequent case or report is closed, and | 3 | | may not
be removed from the register except as provided by the | 4 | | Department in rules. Identifying information in indicated | 5 | | reports involving sexual penetration of a child, sexual | 6 | | molestation of a child, sexual exploitation of a child, torture | 7 | | of a child, or the death of a child, as defined by the | 8 | | Department in rules, shall be retained for a period of not less | 9 | | than 50 years after the report is indicated or after the | 10 | | subsequent case or report is closed.
| 11 | | For purposes of this Section "child" includes an adult | 12 | | resident as defined in this Act. | 13 | | (Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 98-453, eff. 8-16-13.)
| 14 | | (325 ILCS 5/7.15) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.15)
| 15 | | Sec. 7.15.
The central register may contain such other | 16 | | information which
the Department determines to be in | 17 | | furtherance of the purposes of this Act.
Pursuant to the | 18 | | provisions of Sections 7.14 and 7.16, the Department may
amend | 19 | | or remove from the central register appropriate records
upon | 20 | | good cause shown and upon notice to the subjects of the report | 21 | | and
the Child Protective Service Unit. | 22 | | Notwithstanding the expiration of the deadline set forth in | 23 | | Section 7.16 for appealing an indicated report and | 24 | | notwithstanding the previous issuance of a non-appealable | 25 | | final administrative decision denying a request to expunge an |
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| 1 | | indicated report, and pursuant to the Child Protective Service | 2 | | Unit's authority to amend reports granted in Section 7.18, the | 3 | | Director of the Department or his or her designee shall have | 4 | | the exclusive discretion, on the ground of manifest injustice, | 5 | | to expunge from the central register either an indicated report | 6 | | or the name of a specified perpetrator or to reduce the length | 7 | | of time for which the specified perpetrator's name is to remain | 8 | | registered on the central register. In the alternative, the | 9 | | Director of the Department or his or her designee shall have | 10 | | the exclusive discretion to direct that the issue of | 11 | | expungement of an indicated report or of expungement of the | 12 | | name of a specified perpetrator be re-opened for an evidentiary | 13 | | hearing on the merits. The Department shall establish | 14 | | procedures for requesting relief on the grounds of manifest | 15 | | injustice.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 90-15, eff. 6-13-97.)
| 17 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 18 | | becoming law.
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