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92_SB0500
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1 AN ACT in relation to senior citizens.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database Act.
6 Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
7 "Department" means Department of State Police.
8 "Director" means the Director of State Police.
9 "Senior citizen" means a person of the age of 60 years or
10 older.
11 "Senior citizen victimizer" means a person who has been
12 arrested for committing an offense against a senior citizen.
13 "Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database Terminal"
14 means an interactive computerized communication and
15 processing unit that permits direct on-line communication
16 with the Department of State Police's Statewide Senior
17 Citizen Victimizer Database.
18 Section 10. Duties of the Department. The Department
19 may:
20 (a) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of
21 pertinent information regarding the report of an arrested
22 senior citizen victimizer into the Senior Citizen Victimizer
23 Database Terminal;
24 (b) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of
25 arrested senior citizen victimizers shall be entered into the
26 database as soon as the minimum level of data of information
27 specified by the Department is available to the reporting
28 agency, and that no waiting period for the entry of that data
29 exists;
30 (c) Compile and maintain a data repository relating to
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1 senior citizen victimizers in order to gather information
2 regarding the various modus operandi used to victimize senior
3 citizens, groups that tend to routinely target senior
4 citizens, areas of the State that senior citizen victimizers
5 tend to frequent, and the type of persons senior citizen
6 victimizers routinely target;
7 (d) Develop and improve techniques used by law
8 enforcement agencies and prosecutors in the investigation,
9 apprehension, and prosecution of senior citizen victimizers;
10 (e) Locate all law enforcement agencies that could, in
11 the opinion of the Director, benefit from access to the
12 Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database, and notify them
13 of its existence; and
14 (f) Cooperate with all law enforcement agencies wishing
15 to gain access to the Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer
16 Database system, and to facilitate their entry into the
17 system and to their continued maintenance of access to it.
18 Section 15. Duties of local law enforcement agencies.
19 Local law enforcement agencies that are members of the
20 Statewide Senior Citizen Victimizer Database system may:
21 (a) After arresting any person whom they believe to be a
22 senior citizen victimizer, create or update that person's
23 electronic file within the Statewide Senior Citizen
24 Victimizer Database system; and
25 (b) Notify the prosecutor of an accused of that accused
26 person's history of perpetrating crimes against senior
27 citizens.