(730 ILCS 5/3-2.5-61)

Sec. 3-2.5-61. Annual and other reports.

(a) The Director shall make an annual electronic report to the Governor and General Assembly concerning persons committed to the Department, its institutions, facilities, and programs, of all moneys expended and received, and on what accounts expended and received no later than January 1 of each year. The report shall include the ethnic and racial background data, not identifiable to an individual, of all persons committed to the Department, its institutions, facilities, programs, and outcome measures established with the Juvenile Advisory Board.

(b) The Department of Juvenile Justice shall, by January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, electronically transmit to the Governor and General Assembly, a report which shall include the following information:

(1) the number of youth in each of the Department's facilities and the number of youth on aftercare;

(2) the demographics of sex, age, race and ethnicity, classification of offense, and geographic location where the offense occurred;

(3) the educational and vocational programs provided at each facility and the number of residents participating in each program;

(4) the present capacity levels in each facility;

(5) staff-to-youth ratios in accordance with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) definitions;

(6) the number of reported assaults on staff at each facility;

(7) the number of reported incidents of youth sexual aggression towards staff at each facility including sexual assault, residents exposing themselves, sexual touching, and sexually offensive harassing language such as repeated and unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or verbal comments, gestures, or actions of a derogatory or offensive sexual nature; and

(8) the number of staff injuries resulting from youth violence at each facility including descriptions of the nature and location of the injuries, the number of staff injuries requiring medical treatment at the facility, the number of staff injuries requiring outside medical treatment and the number of days off work per injury. For purposes of this Section, the definition of assault on staff includes, but is not limited to, kicking, punching, knocking down, harming or threatening to harm with improvised weapons, or throwing urine or feces at staff.

(c) The requirements in subsection (b) do not relieve the Department from the recordkeeping requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

(d) The Department shall:

(1) establish a reasonable procedure for employees to report work-related assaults and injuries. A procedure is not reasonable if it would deter or discourage a reasonable employee from accurately reporting a workplace assault or injury;

(2) inform each employee:

(A) of the procedure for reporting work-related assaults and injuries;

(B) of the right to report work-related assaults and injuries; and

(C) that the Department is prohibited from discharging or in any manner discriminating against employees for reporting work-related assaults and injuries; and

(3) not discharge, discipline or in any manner discriminate against any employee for reporting a work-related assault or injury.

(e) For the purposes of paragraphs (7) and (8) of subsection (b) only, reports shall be filed beginning July 1, 2019 or the implementation of the Department's Offender 360 Program, whichever occurs first.

(Source: P.A. 100-1075, eff. 1-1-19; 101-159, eff. 1-1-20.)