Bill Text: IL HB5588 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database (SWORD), other than officer safety information and entering agency identifier, accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database (SWORD) Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home page. Provides that the Department must make the information contained in the Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database searchable via a mapping system which identifies organized criminal gang members living within 5 miles of an identified address. The Department of State Police must update that information as it deems necessary. Provides that the Department of State Police may require that a person who seeks access to the organized criminal gang members' information submit biographical information about himself or herself before permitting access to the information. Provides that the Department of State Police must promulgate rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement these provisions and those rules must include procedures to ensure that the information in the database is accurate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5588 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5588-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5588 Introduced , by Rep. Deborah Mell SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2605/2605-305 was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part
Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database (SWORD), other than officer safety information and entering agency identifier, accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database (SWORD) Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home page. Provides that the Department must make the information contained in the Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database searchable via a mapping system which identifies organized criminal gang members living within 5 miles of an identified address. The Department of State Police must update that information as it deems necessary. Provides that the Department of State Police may require that a person who seeks access to the organized criminal gang members' information submit biographical information about himself or herself before permitting access to the information. Provides that the Department of State Police must promulgate rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement these provisions and those rules must include procedures to ensure that the information in the database is accurate.
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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 Department of State Police Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section
2605-305 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2605/2605-305) (was 20 ILCS 2605/55a in part)
Sec. 2605-305. Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database
(SWORD).
(a) The Department may establish and maintain, within the
Department, a Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database
(SWORD) for the purpose of tracking organized criminal gangs
and their memberships. Information in the database may include,
but not be limited to, the name, last known address, birth
date, physical descriptions (such as scars, marks, or tattoos),
photograph, officer safety information, organized gang
affiliation, and entering agency identifier. The Department
may develop, in consultation with the Criminal Justice
Information Authority, and in a form and manner prescribed by
the Department, an automated data exchange system to compile,
to maintain, and to make this information electronically
available to prosecutors, and to other law enforcement
agencies, and the public. The information may be used by

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authorized agencies to combat the operations of organized
criminal gangs statewide.
(b) The Department of State Police must make the
information contained in the Statewide Organized Criminal Gang
Database (SWORD), other than officer safety information and
entering agency identifier, accessible on the Internet by means
of a hyperlink labeled "Statewide Organized Criminal Gang
Database (SWORD) Information" on the Department's World Wide
Web home page. The Department must make the information
contained in the Statewide Organized Criminal Gang Database
searchable via a mapping system which identifies organized
criminal gang members 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
organized criminal gang members' information submit
biographical information about himself or herself before
permitting access to the 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.
(Source: P.A. 90-18, eff. 7-1-97; 90-130, eff. 1-1-98; 90-372,
eff. 7-1-98; 90-590, eff. 1-1-00; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98; 90-793,
eff. 8-14-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)