Public Act 094-0145
 		





HB2241 Enrolled
LRB094 03280 RCE 33281 b






    AN ACT concerning State government.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 

 
    Section 5. The Department of State Police Law of the
Civil 
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended  by changing Sections 
2605-5 and 2605-375 as follows:
 



    (20 ILCS 2605/2605-5)



    Sec. 2605-5. Definitions. In this Law:

    "Department" means the Department of State Police.

    "Director" means the Director of State Police.
    "Missing endangered senior" means an individual 65 years of 
age or older who is reported missing to a law enforcement 
agency and is, or is believed to be:
        (1) a temporary or permanent resident of Illinois;
        (2) at a location that cannot be determined by an 
    individual familiar with the missing individual; and
        (3) incapable of returning to the individual's 
    residence without assistance.


(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

 



    (20 ILCS 2605/2605-375)  (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)



    Sec. 2605-375. Missing persons; Law Enforcement Agencies 
Data System
(LEADS).

    (a) To establish and maintain a statewide Law Enforcement

Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of providing 
electronic access
by authorized entities to criminal justice 
data repositories and effecting an
immediate law enforcement 
response to reports of missing persons, including
lost, missing 
or runaway minors and missing endangered seniors.  The 
Department shall implement an automatic
data exchange system to 
compile, to maintain, and to make available to
other law

enforcement agencies for immediate dissemination data that can

assist
appropriate agencies in recovering missing persons and 
provide access by
authorized entities to various data 
repositories available through LEADS for
criminal justice and 
related purposes.  To assist the Department in
this effort, 
funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.

    (b) In exercising its duties under this Section, the

Department shall do the following:


        (1) Provide a uniform reporting format for the entry of 
    pertinent
information regarding the report of a missing 
    person into LEADS. The report must include all of the 
    following:


            (A) Relevant information obtained from the 
        notification concerning the missing person, including 
        all of the following:
                (i) a physical description of the missing 
            person;
                (ii) the date, time, and place that the missing 
            person was last seen; and
                (iii) the missing person's address.
            (B) Information gathered by a preliminary 
        investigation, if one was made.
            (C) A statement by the law enforcement officer in 
        charge stating the officer's assessment of the case 
        based on the evidence and information received.
        The Department of State Police shall prepare the report 
    required by this paragraph (1) as soon as practical, but 
    not later than 5 hours after the Department receives 
    notification of a missing person.

        (2) Develop and implement a policy whereby a statewide 
    or regional alert
would be used in situations relating to 
    the disappearances of individuals,
based on criteria and in 
    a format established by the Department.  Such a
format shall 
    include, but not be limited to, the age of the missing 
    person
and the suspected circumstance of the 
    disappearance.


        (3) Notify all law enforcement agencies that reports of 
    missing persons
shall be entered as soon as the minimum 
    level of data specified by the
Department is available to 
    the reporting agency and that no waiting period
for the 
    entry of the data exists.


        (4) Compile and retain information regarding lost, 
    abducted, missing,
or
runaway minors in a separate data 
    file, in a manner that allows that
information to be used 
    by law enforcement and other agencies deemed
appropriate by 
    the Director, for investigative purposes.  The
information

    shall include the disposition of all reported lost, 
    abducted, missing, or
runaway minor cases.


        (5) Compile and maintain an historic data repository 
    relating to lost,
abducted, missing, or runaway minors and 
    other missing persons, including, but not limited to, 
    missing endangered seniors, in order to
develop and improve 
    techniques utilized by law enforcement agencies when

    responding to reports of missing persons.


        (6) Create a quality control program regarding 
    confirmation of missing
person data, timeliness of entries 
    of missing person reports into LEADS,
and
performance 
    audits of all entering agencies.
        (7) Upon completion of the report required by paragraph 
    (1), the Department of State Police shall immediately 
    forward the contents of the report to all of the following:
            (A) all law enforcement agencies that have 
        jurisdiction in the location where the missing person 
        lives and all law enforcement agencies that have 
        jurisdiction in the location where the missing person 
        was last seen;
            (B) all law enforcement agencies to which the 
        person who made the notification concerning the 
        missing person requests the report be sent, if the 
        Department determines that the request is reasonable 
        in light of the information received;
            (C) all law enforcement agencies that request a 
        copy of the report; and
            (D) the National Crime Information Center's 
        Missing Person File, if appropriate.

        (8) The Department of State Police shall begin an 
    investigation concerning the missing person not later than 
    24 hours after receiving notification of a missing person.
    (c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board 
shall conduct a training program for law enforcement personnel 
of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated 
missing endangered senior alert system established under this 
Section.

(Source:  P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-130, eff. 1-1-98;
90-372, 
eff. 7-1-98;
90-590, eff. 1-1-00; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98; 90-793, 
eff. 8-14-98;
91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

 
    Section 10. The Illinois Police Training Act is amended  by 
changing Section 10.10 as follows:
 



    (50 ILCS 705/10.10)


    Sec. 10.10. Training in child abduction and missing 
endangered senior alert system. The Board shall
conduct a

training program for law enforcement personnel of local 
governmental agencies
in the
statewide coordinated child 
abduction alert system developed under Section
2605-480 of
the 
Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code 
of
Illinois and the statewide coordinated missing endangered 
senior alert system developed under Section 2605-375 of the 
Department of State Police Law of the
Civil Administrative Code 
of Illinois.

(Source: P.A. 93-310, eff. 7-23-03.)


 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
1, 2006.