Bill Text: IL HB5421 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, whenever a child protective investigator of a Child Protective Service Unit must visit a home or residence to investigate a report of abuse or neglect, at least one local law enforcement officer must accompany the child protective investigator to offer assistance and must remain with the child protective investigator for the duration of the visit until the child protective investigator is safely clear of the home or residence.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-18 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5421 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB5421-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB5421 Introduced , by Rep. Jawaharial Williams SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
325 ILCS 5/7.2 from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, whenever a child protective investigator of a Child Protective Service Unit must visit a home or residence to investigate a report of abuse or neglect, at least one local law enforcement officer must accompany the child protective investigator to offer assistance and must remain with the child protective investigator for the duration of the visit until the child protective investigator is safely clear of the home or residence.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning children.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act is
amended by changing Section 7.2 as follows:
(325 ILCS 5/7.2) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2)
Sec. 7.2. The Department shall establish a Child
Protective Service Unit within each geographic region as
designated by the Director of the Department. The Child
Protective Service Unit shall perform those functions assigned
by this Act to it and only such others that would further the
purposes of this Act. It shall have a sufficient staff of
qualified personnel to fulfill the purpose of this Act and be
organized in such a way as to maximize the continuity of
responsibility, care and service of the individual workers
toward the individual children and families.
The Child Protective Service Unit shall designate members
of each unit to receive specialty training to serve as special
consultants to unit staff and the public in the areas of child
sexual abuse, child deaths and injuries, and out-of-home
investigations.
Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary,
whenever a child protective investigator of a Child Protective

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Service Unit must visit a home or residence to investigate a
report of abuse or neglect, at least one local law enforcement
officer must accompany the child protective investigator to
offer assistance and must remain with the child protective
investigator for the duration of the visit until the child
protective investigator is safely clear of the home or
residence. If a child protective investigator of a Child
Protective Service Unit is unable to obtain assistance from
other unit members when responding to a high-risk report of
child abuse or neglect and the child protective investigator
has a reasonable belief or suspicion that a subject named in
the report has the potential for violence, the child
protective investigator may request assistance from local law
enforcement officers to be provided at a mutually available
time. Law enforcement officers shall, upon request, make all
reasonable efforts to assist the child protective investigator
in receiving law enforcement assistance from any other police
jurisdiction that is outside the accompanying officers'
primary jurisdiction.
(Source: P.A. 100-625, eff. 7-20-18.)