705 ILCS 405/4-5

(705 ILCS 405/4-5) (from Ch. 37, par. 804-5)

Sec. 4-5. Duty of officer; admissions by minor.

(1) A law
enforcement officer who takes a minor into custody with a
warrant shall immediately make a reasonable attempt to
notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the minor's
care or the person with whom the minor resides that the minor has been
taken into custody and where the minor is being held; and the officer shall
without unnecessary delay take the minor to the nearest juvenile police
officer designated for such purposes in the county of venue or shall
surrender the minor to a juvenile police officer in the city or village
where the offense is alleged to have been committed.

The minor shall be delivered without unnecessary delay to the court or
to the place designated by rule or order of court for the reception of
minors, provided that the court may not designate a place of detention.

(2) A law enforcement officer who takes a minor into custody without
a warrant under Section 4-4 shall, if the minor is not released,
immediately make a reasonable attempt to notify the parent or other person
legally responsible for the minor's care or the person with whom the minor
resides that the minor has been taken into custody and where the minor is
being held; and the law enforcement officer shall without unnecessary delay
take the minor to the nearest juvenile police officer designated for such
purposes in the county of venue.

(3) The juvenile police officer may take one of the following actions:

(a) station adjustment with release of the minor;

(b) station adjustment with release of the minor to a

parent;

(c) station adjustment, release of the minor to a

parent, and referral of the case to community services;

(d) station adjustment, release of the minor to a

parent, and referral of the case to community services with informal monitoring by a juvenile police officer;

(e) station adjustment and release of the minor to a

third person pursuant to agreement of the minor and parents;

(f) station adjustment, release of the minor to a

third person pursuant to agreement of the minor and parents, and referral of the case to community services;

(g) station adjustment, release of the minor to a

third person pursuant to agreement of the minor and parents, and referral to community services with informal monitoring by a juvenile police officer;

(h) release of the minor to the minor's parents and

referral of the case to a county juvenile probation officer or such other public officer designated by the court;

(i) if the juvenile police officer reasonably

believes that there is an urgent and immediate necessity to keep the minor in custody, the juvenile police officer shall deliver the minor without unnecessary delay to the court or to the place designated by rule or order of the court for the reception of minors; and

(j) any other appropriate action with consent of the

minor and a parent.

(Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)