Illinois General Assembly

  Bills & Resolutions  
  Compiled Statutes  
  Public Acts  
  Legislative Reports  
  IL Constitution  
  Legislative Guide  
  Legislative Glossary  

 Search By Number
 (example: HB0001)
Search Tips

Search By Keyword

Illinois Compiled Statutes

 ILCS Listing   Public Acts  Search   Guide   Disclaimer

Information maintained by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

815 ILCS 518/10

    (815 ILCS 518/10)
    Sec. 10. Requirements for Internet dating services, Internet child care services, Internet senior care services, and Internet home care services.
    (a) An Internet dating service, Internet child care service, Internet senior care service, or Internet home care service offering services to Illinois members shall provide a safety awareness notification to all Illinois members that includes, at a minimum, a list and description of safety measures reasonably designed to increase awareness of safer dating, child care, senior care, and home care practices as determined by the service.
    Examples of such notifications include, but are not limited to:
        (1) "Anyone who is able to commit identity theft can
    
also falsify a dating profile, a child care profile, a senior care profile, or a home care profile."
        (2) "There is no substitute for acting with caution
    
when communicating with any stranger who wants to meet you."
        (3) "Never include your last name, e-mail address,
    
home address, phone number, place of work, or any other identifying information in your Internet profile or initial e-mail messages. Stop communicating with anyone who pressures you for personal or financial information or attempts in any way to trick you into revealing it."
        (4) "If you choose to have a face-to-face meeting
    
with another member, always tell someone in your family or a friend where you are going and when you will return. Never agree to be picked up at your home. Always provide your own transportation to and from your date and meet in a public place with many people around."
    (b) If an Internet dating service, Internet child care service, Internet senior care service, or Internet home care service does not conduct criminal background screenings on its members, the service shall disclose, clearly and conspicuously, to all Illinois members that the Internet dating service does not conduct criminal background screenings. The disclosure shall be provided in two or more of the following forms: when an electronic mail message is sent or received by an Illinois member, in a "click-through" or other similar presentation requiring a member from this State to acknowledge that they have received the information required by this Act, on the profile describing a member to an Illinois member, and on the website pages or homepage of the Internet dating service, Internet child care service, Internet senior care service, or Internet home care service used when an Illinois member signs up. A disclosure under this subsection shall be in bold, capital letters in at least 12-point type.
    (c) If an Internet dating service, Internet child care service, Internet senior care service, or Internet home care service conducts criminal background screenings on all of its communicating members, then the service shall disclose, clearly and conspicuously, to all Illinois members that the Internet dating service, Internet child care service, Internet senior care service, or Internet home care service conducts a criminal background screening on each member prior to permitting an Illinois member to communicate with another member. The disclosure shall be provided on the website pages used when an Illinois member signs up. A disclosure under this subsection shall be in bold, capital letters in at least 12-point type.
    (d) If an Internet dating service, Internet child care service, Internet senior care service, or Internet home care service conducts criminal background screenings, then the service shall disclose whether it has a policy allowing a member who has been identified as having a criminal conviction to have access to its service to communicate with any Illinois member; shall state that criminal background screenings are not foolproof; that they may give members a false sense of security; that they are not a perfect safety solution; that criminals may circumvent even the most sophisticated search technology; that not all criminal records are public in all states and not all databases are up to date; that only publicly available convictions are included in the screening; and that screenings do not cover other types of convictions or arrests or any convictions from foreign countries.
(Source: P.A. 97-1056, eff. 8-24-12; 98-458, eff. 8-16-13.)