Bill Text: IL HB1321 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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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.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 24-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1321 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1321-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1321 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael G. Connelly - Kay Hatcher - Rosemary Mulligan - Franco Coladipietro - Sandra M. Pihos SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
730 ILCS 152/115
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.
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AN ACT concerning sex offenders.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Sex Offender Community Notification Law is
amended by changing Section 115 as follows:
(730 ILCS 152/115)
Sec. 115. Sex offender database.
(a) The Department of State Police shall establish and
maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for the purpose of
identifying sex offenders and making that information
available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of
this Law. The Database shall be created from the Law
Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) established under
Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act
of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its LEADS
database for persons registered as sex offenders under the Sex
Offender Registration Act and shall identify those who are sex
offenders and shall add all the information, including
photographs if available, on those sex offenders to the
Statewide Sex Offender Database.
(b) The Department of State Police must make the
information contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database
accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "Sex

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Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home
page. The Department must make the information contained in the
Statewide Sex Offender Database searchable via a mapping system
which identifies registered sex offenders living within 5 miles
of an identified address. The Department of State Police must
update that information as it deems necessary.
The Department of State Police may require that a person
who seeks access to the sex offender information submit
biographical information about himself or herself before
permitting access to the sex offender information. The
Department of State Police must promulgate rules in accordance
with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement
this subsection (b) and those rules must include procedures to
ensure that the information in the database is accurate.
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. The Department of
State Police shall provide such information by e-mail
notification to a person who completes the form.
(c) The Department of State Police, Sex Offender
Registration Unit, must develop and conduct training to educate
all those entities involved in the Sex Offender Registration
Program.

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(Source: P.A. 93-979, eff. 8-20-04; 94-994, eff. 1-1-07.)