Bill Text: IL HB3286 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide on its Sex Offender Information web page a form that allows a person who seeks access to sex offender information to be notified by e-mail of when a sex offender changes residence, employment, or school attendance to a location within a particular zip code or within a specified distance from an address. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide such information by e-mail notification to a person who completes the form.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3286 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB3286-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning sex offenders.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 115 as follows:
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| 6 | (730 ILCS 152/115)
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| 7 | Sec. 115. Sex offender database.
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| 8 | (a) The Department of State Police
shall establish and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for
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purpose of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | identifying sex offenders and making that information
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| 11 | available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | this Law. The
Database shall be created from the Law | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)
established under | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act
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| 15 | of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | database for
persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Offender Registration Act and
shall identify those who are sex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | offenders and shall add all the
information, including | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | photographs if available, on those sex offenders to
the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | Statewide Sex
Offender
Database.
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| 21 | (b) The Department of State Police must make the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | information contained in
the
Statewide Sex Offender Database | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | accessible on the Internet by means of a
hyperlink
labeled "Sex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home
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| 2 | page. The Department must make the information contained in the | ||||||
| 3 | Statewide Sex Offender Database searchable via a mapping system | ||||||
| 4 | which identifies registered sex offenders living within 5 miles | ||||||
| 5 | of an identified address. The Department of State Police must | ||||||
| 6 | update that information as it deems
necessary.
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| 7 | The Department of State Police may require that a person | ||||||
| 8 | who seeks access to
the sex
offender information submit | ||||||
| 9 | biographical information about himself or
herself before
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| 10 | permitting access to the sex offender information. The | ||||||
| 11 | Department of State Police must promulgate rules
in accordance | ||||||
| 12 | with the Illinois Administrative Procedure
Act to implement | ||||||
| 13 | this
subsection
(b)
and those rules must include procedures to | ||||||
| 14 | ensure that the information in the
database is accurate.
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| 15 | The Department of State Police shall provide on its Sex | ||||||
| 16 | Offender Information web page a form that allows a person who | ||||||
| 17 | seeks access to sex offender information to be notified by | ||||||
| 18 | e-mail of when a sex offender changes residence, employment, or | ||||||
| 19 | school attendance to a location within a particular zip code or | ||||||
| 20 | within a specified distance from an address. The Department of | ||||||
| 21 | State Police shall provide such information by e-mail | ||||||
| 22 | notification to a person who completes the form.
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| 23 | (c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender | ||||||
| 24 | Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate | ||||||
| 25 | all those entities involved in the Sex Offender Registration | ||||||
| 26 | Program.
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| 1 | (Source: P.A. 93-979, eff. 8-20-04; 94-994, eff. 1-1-07.)
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