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90_HB3791
20 ILCS 2630/5.2 new
20 ILCS 2630/7 from Ch. 38, par. 206-7
310 ILCS 10/25.06 new
Amends the Criminal Identification Act and the Housing
Authorities Act. Permits the Chicago Housing Authority to
obtain arrest records of its tenants and prospective tenants.
Prohibits further disclosure of that information to persons
not otherwise authorized by law to obtain arrest records.
Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT in relation to housing authorities, amending named
2 Acts.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Criminal Identification Act is amended by
6 changing Section 7 and adding Section 5.2 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 2630/5.2 new)
8 Sec. 5.2. Disclosure of arrest records of public housing
9 tenants and prospective tenants. Upon written request of a
10 Housing Authority in a municipality having over 500,000
11 inhabitants, the Department shall furnish to the Housing
12 Authority fingerprints, charges, and descriptions of tenants
13 and prospective tenants of properties under the jurisdiction
14 or control of the Authority who have been arrested for
15 offenses described in the first paragraph of subsection (a)
16 of Section 5 of this Act. The Housing Authority shall
17 designate those officers and employees who may obtain the
18 information described in this Section.
19 (20 ILCS 2630/7) (from Ch. 38, par. 206-7)
20 Sec. 7. No file or record of the Department hereby
21 created shall be made public, except as provided in Section
22 5.2 of this Act, Section 25.06 of the Housing Authorities
23 Act, the "Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act, " or
24 other Illinois law or as may be necessary in the
25 identification of persons suspected or accused of crime and
26 in their trial for offenses committed after having been
27 imprisoned for a prior offense; and no information of any
28 character relating to its records shall be given or furnished
29 by said Department to any person, bureau or institution other
30 than as provided in this Act or other State law, or when a
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1 governmental unit is required by state or federal law to
2 consider such information in the performance of its duties.
3 Violation of this Section shall constitute a Class A
4 misdemeanor.
5 However, if an individual requests the Department to
6 release information as to the existence or nonexistence of
7 any criminal record he might have, the Department shall do so
8 upon determining that the person for whom the record is to be
9 released is actually the person making the request. The
10 Department shall establish reasonable fees and rules to allow
11 an individual to review and correct any criminal history
12 record information the Department may hold concerning that
13 individual upon verification of the identity of the
14 individual. Such rulemaking is subject to the provisions of
15 the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
16 (Source: P.A. 85-922.)
17 Section 10. The Housing Authorities Act is amended by
18 adding Section 25.06 as follows:
19 (310 ILCS 10/25.06 new)
20 Sec. 25.06. Arrest records of tenants and prospective
21 tenants. A Housing Authority in any municipality having over
22 500,000 inhabitants is authorized to obtain the arrest
23 records of its tenants and prospective tenants as provided in
24 Section 5.2 of the Criminal Identification Act. Nothing in
25 this Section permits the disclosure of arrest records of
26 tenants and prospective tenants of a Housing Authority to
27 persons other than officers and employees of the Authority
28 and to those persons otherwise authorized by law to obtain
29 disclosure of those records.
30 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
31 becoming law.