Bill Text: IL HB4936 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall provide for automated access to data contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database, including the establishment of a web application programming interface that permits application programs to request and receive public data sets directly from the web.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4936 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB4936-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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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
the
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 | (b-5) As soon as practicable after the effective date of | ||||||
16 | this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, the Illinois | ||||||
17 | State Police shall provide for automated access to data | ||||||
18 | contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database, including the | ||||||
19 | establishment of a web application programming interface that | ||||||
20 | permits application programs to request and receive public data | ||||||
21 | sets directly from the web. | ||||||
22 | (c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender | ||||||
23 | Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate | ||||||
24 | all those entities involved in the Sex Offender Registration | ||||||
25 | Program.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 93-979, eff. 8-20-04; 94-994, eff. 1-1-07.)
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