Bill Text: IL HB0917 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the organization of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0917 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0917-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB0917 Introduced , by Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 5/3-2-5 from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-5
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the organization of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
changing Section 3-2-5 as follows:
(730 ILCS 5/3-2-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-2-5)
Sec. 3-2-5. Organization of the Department of Corrections
and the Department of Juvenile Justice.
(a) There shall be a Department of Corrections which shall
be administered by a Director and and an Assistant Director
appointed by the Governor under the Civil Administrative Code
of Illinois. The Assistant Director shall be under the
direction of the Director. The Department of Corrections shall
be responsible for all persons committed or transferred to the
Department under Sections 3-10-7 or 5-8-6 of this Code.
(b) There shall be a Department of Juvenile Justice which
shall be administered by a Director appointed by the Governor
under the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. The Department
of Juvenile Justice shall be responsible for all persons under
18 years of age when sentenced to imprisonment and committed to
the Department under subsection (c) of Section 5-8-6 of this
Code, Section 5-10 of the Juvenile Court Act, or Section 5-750
of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Persons under 18 years of

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age committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice pursuant to
this Code shall be sight and sound separate from adult
offenders committed to the Department of Corrections.
(c) The Department shall create a gang intelligence unit
under the supervision of the Director. The unit shall be
specifically designed to gather information regarding the
inmate gang population, monitor the activities of gangs, and
prevent the furtherance of gang activities through the
development and implementation of policies aimed at deterring
gang activity. The Director shall appoint a Corrections
Intelligence Coordinator.
All information collected and maintained by the unit shall
be highly confidential, and access to that information shall be
restricted by the Department. The information shall be used to
control and limit the activities of gangs within correctional
institutions under the jurisdiction of the Illinois Department
of Corrections and may be shared with other law enforcement
agencies in order to curb gang activities outside of
correctional institutions under the jurisdiction of the
Department and to assist in the investigations and prosecutions
of gang activity. The Department shall establish and promulgate
rules governing the release of information to outside law
enforcement agencies. Due to the highly sensitive nature of the
information, the information is exempt from requests for
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act as the
information contained is highly confidential and may be harmful

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if disclosed.
(Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13; 99-628, eff. 1-1-17.)