Bill Text: IL SB1701 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Makes a technical change in the Authority's powers and duties Section.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-19 - Referred to Assignments [SB1701 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB1701-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB1701 Introduced 2/19/2009, by Sen. John J. Millner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 3930/7 from Ch. 38, par. 210-7
Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Makes a technical change in the Authority's powers and duties Section.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act is
amended by changing Section 7 as follows:
(20 ILCS 3930/7) (from Ch. 38, par. 210-7)
Sec. 7. Powers and Duties. The Authority shall have the the
following powers, duties and responsibilities:
(a) To develop and operate comprehensive information
systems for the improvement and coordination of all aspects
of law enforcement, prosecution and corrections;
(b) To define, develop, evaluate and correlate State
and local programs and projects associated with the
improvement of law enforcement and the administration of
criminal justice;
(c) To act as a central repository and clearing house
for federal, state and local research studies, plans,
projects, proposals and other information relating to all
aspects of criminal justice system improvement and to
encourage educational programs for citizen support of
State and local efforts to make such improvements;
(d) To undertake research studies to aid in
accomplishing its purposes;

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(e) To monitor the operation of existing criminal
justice information systems in order to protect the
constitutional rights and privacy of individuals about
whom criminal history record information has been
collected;
(f) To provide an effective administrative forum for
the protection of the rights of individuals concerning
criminal history record information;
(g) To issue regulations, guidelines and procedures
which ensure the privacy and security of criminal history
record information consistent with State and federal laws;
(h) To act as the sole administrative appeal body in
the State of Illinois to conduct hearings and make final
determinations concerning individual challenges to the
completeness and accuracy of criminal history record
information;
(i) To act as the sole, official, criminal justice body
in the State of Illinois to conduct annual and periodic
audits of the procedures, policies, and practices of the
State central repositories for criminal history record
information to verify compliance with federal and state
laws and regulations governing such information;
(j) To advise the Authority's Statistical Analysis
Center;
(k) To apply for, receive, establish priorities for,
allocate, disburse and spend grants of funds that are made

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available by and received on or after January 1, 1983 from
private sources or from the United States pursuant to the
federal Crime Control Act of 1973, as amended, and similar
federal legislation, and to enter into agreements with the
United States government to further the purposes of this
Act, or as may be required as a condition of obtaining
federal funds;
(l) To receive, expend and account for such funds of
the State of Illinois as may be made available to further
the purposes of this Act;
(m) To enter into contracts and to cooperate with units
of general local government or combinations of such units,
State agencies, and criminal justice system agencies of
other states for the purpose of carrying out the duties of
the Authority imposed by this Act or by the federal Crime
Control Act of 1973, as amended;
(n) To enter into contracts and cooperate with units of
general local government outside of Illinois, other
states' agencies, and private organizations outside of
Illinois to provide computer software or design that has
been developed for the Illinois criminal justice system, or
to participate in the cooperative development or design of
new software or systems to be used by the Illinois criminal
justice system. Revenues received as a result of such
arrangements shall be deposited in the Criminal Justice
Information Systems Trust Fund.

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(o) To establish general policies concerning criminal
justice information systems and to promulgate such rules,
regulations and procedures as are necessary to the
operation of the Authority and to the uniform consideration
of appeals and audits;
(p) To advise and to make recommendations to the
Governor and the General Assembly on policies relating to
criminal justice information systems;
(q) To direct all other agencies under the jurisdiction
of the Governor to provide whatever assistance and
information the Authority may lawfully require to carry out
its functions;
(r) To exercise any other powers that are reasonable
and necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the
Authority under this Act and to comply with the
requirements of applicable federal law or regulation;
(s) To exercise the rights, powers and duties which
have been vested in the Authority by the "Illinois Uniform
Conviction Information Act", enacted by the 85th General
Assembly, as hereafter amended;
(t) To exercise the rights, powers and duties which
have been vested in the Authority by the Illinois Motor
Vehicle Theft Prevention Act; and
(u) To exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested
in the Authority by the Illinois Public Safety Agency
Network Act.

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The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall
be satisfied by filing copies of the report with the Speaker,
the Minority Leader and the Clerk of the House of
Representatives and the President, the Minority Leader and the
Secretary of the Senate and the Legislative Research Unit, as
required by Section 3.1 of "An Act to revise the law in
relation to the General Assembly", approved February 25, 1874,
as amended, and filing such additional copies with the State
Government Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly
as is required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State
Library Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-896, eff. 7-1-06.)