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Public Act 094-0145


 

Public Act 0145 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
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.

Effective Date: 1/1/2006