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 1        AN ACT concerning law enforcement, amending named Acts.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
 5    amended by changing Section 55a as follows:

 6        (20 ILCS 2605/55a) (from Ch. 127, par. 55a)
 7        (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 90-590)
 8        Sec. 55a. Powers and duties.
 9        (A)  The  Department  of  State  Police  shall  have  the
10    following powers and duties, and those set forth in  Sections
11    55a-1 through 55c:
12        1.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
13    been vested in the Department of Public Safety by  the  State
14    Police Act.
15        2.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
16    been vested in the Department of Public Safety by  the  State
17    Police Radio Act.
18        3.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
19    been vested  in  the  Department  of  Public  Safety  by  the
20    Criminal Identification Act.
21        4.  To (a) investigate the origins, activities, personnel
22    and  incidents of crime and the ways and means to redress the
23    victims  of  crimes,  and  study  the  impact,  if  any,   of
24    legislation  relative  to  the  effusion of crime and growing
25    crime rates, and enforce the  criminal  laws  of  this  State
26    related   thereto,   (b)  enforce  all  laws  regulating  the
27    production, sale, prescribing, manufacturing,  administering,
28    transporting,  having  in possession, dispensing, delivering,
29    distributing, or use of controlled substances  and  cannabis,
30    (c)   employ   skilled   experts,   scientists,  technicians,
31    investigators or otherwise specially qualified persons to aid
 
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 1    in preventing or detecting crime, apprehending criminals,  or
 2    preparing  and  presenting  evidence  of  violations  of  the
 3    criminal  laws of the State, (d) cooperate with the police of
 4    cities, villages and incorporated towns, and with the  police
 5    officers  of  any  county, in enforcing the laws of the State
 6    and in making arrests and recovering property, (e)  apprehend
 7    and  deliver up any person charged in this State or any other
 8    State of the United States with  treason,  felony,  or  other
 9    crime,  who has fled from justice and is found in this State,
10    and (f) conduct such other investigations as may be  provided
11    by law. Persons exercising these powers within the Department
12    are conservators of the peace and as such have all the powers
13    possessed  by  policemen  in cities and sheriffs, except that
14    they may exercise  such  powers  anywhere  in  the  State  in
15    cooperation  with  and  after  contact  with  the  local  law
16    enforcement   officials.   Such  persons  may  use  false  or
17    fictitious names in the performance  of  their  duties  under
18    this  paragraph, upon approval of the Director, and shall not
19    be subject to prosecution under the criminal  laws  for  such
20    use.
21        5.  To:  (a)  be  a  central  repository and custodian of
22    criminal  statistics  for  the  State,  (b)  be   a   central
23    repository  for  criminal  history  record  information,  (c)
24    procure  and file for record such information as is necessary
25    and  helpful  to  plan  programs  of  crime  prevention,  law
26    enforcement and criminal justice, (d) procure  and  file  for
27    record  such  copies  of  fingerprints, as may be required by
28    law, (e) establish general and field crime laboratories,  (f)
29    register  and  file  for  record  such  information as may be
30    required  by  law  for  the  issuance  of   firearm   owner's
31    identification   cards,   (g)   employ  polygraph  operators,
32    laboratory technicians and other specially qualified  persons
33    to  aid  in  the identification of criminal activity, and (h)
34    undertake such other identification, information, laboratory,
 
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 1    statistical or registration activities as may be required  by
 2    law.
 3        6.  To   (a)  acquire  and  operate  one  or  more  radio
 4    broadcasting stations in the State  to  be  used  for  police
 5    purposes,  (b)  operate a statewide communications network to
 6    gather  and  disseminate  information  for  law   enforcement
 7    agencies,  (c)  operate  an  electronic  data  processing and
 8    computer  center  for  the  storage  and  retrieval  of  data
 9    pertaining to criminal activity, and (d) undertake such other
10    communication activities as may be required by law.
11        7.  To provide, as may be required by law, assistance  to
12    local   law   enforcement   agencies  through  (a)  training,
13    management and consultant services for local law  enforcement
14    agencies, and (b) the pursuit of research and the publication
15    of studies pertaining to local law enforcement activities.
16        8.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
17    been vested  in  the  Department  of  State  Police  and  the
18    Director  of  the  Department of State Police by the Narcotic
19    Control Division Abolition Act.
20        9.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which  have
21    been  vested  in  the  Department  of  Public  Safety  by the
22    Illinois Vehicle Code.
23        10.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
24    been vested in the Department of Public Safety by the Firearm
25    Owners Identification Card Act.
26        11.  To  enforce  and  administer  such  other  laws   in
27    relation   to  law  enforcement  as  may  be  vested  in  the
28    Department.
29        12.  To transfer jurisdiction  of  any  realty  title  to
30    which  is  held by the State of Illinois under the control of
31    the  Department  to  any  other  department  of   the   State
32    government  or  to the State Employees Housing Commission, or
33    to acquire  or  accept  Federal  land,  when  such  transfer,
34    acquisition or acceptance is advantageous to the State and is
 
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 1    approved in writing by the Governor.
 2        13.  With  the written approval of the Governor, to enter
 3    into agreements with other departments created by  this  Act,
 4    for the furlough of inmates of the penitentiary to such other
 5    departments   for   their  use  in  research  programs  being
 6    conducted by them.
 7        For  the  purpose  of  participating  in  such   research
 8    projects,  the  Department  may  extend  the  limits  of  any
 9    inmate's place of confinement, when there is reasonable cause
10    to  believe  that  the  inmate will honor his or her trust by
11    authorizing the inmate, under prescribed conditions, to leave
12    the confines of the place unaccompanied by a custodial  agent
13    of  the Department. The Department shall make rules governing
14    the transfer of the inmate to the requesting other department
15    having the approved research project, and the return of  such
16    inmate  to  the unextended confines of the penitentiary. Such
17    transfer shall be made only with the consent of the inmate.
18        The willful failure of a prisoner to  remain  within  the
19    extended limits of his or her confinement or to return within
20    the  time  or  manner  prescribed to the place of confinement
21    designated by the Department in granting such extension shall
22    be deemed an  escape  from  custody  of  the  Department  and
23    punishable  as  provided in Section 3-6-4 of the Unified Code
24    of Corrections.
25        14.  To provide investigative services, with all  of  the
26    powers  possessed by policemen in cities and sheriffs, in and
27    around all race tracks subject to the  Horse  Racing  Act  of
28    1975.
29        15.  To  expend such sums as the Director deems necessary
30    from Contractual Services appropriations for the Division  of
31    Criminal  Investigation  for the purchase of evidence and for
32    the employment of persons to obtain evidence. Such sums shall
33    be advanced to agents authorized by the  Director  to  expend
34    funds, on vouchers signed by the Director.
 
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 1        16.  To  assist  victims  and  witnesses  in  gang  crime
 2    prosecutions through the administration of funds appropriated
 3    from  the  Gang  Violence  Victims  and Witnesses Fund to the
 4    Department.   Such  funds  shall  be  appropriated   to   the
 5    Department  and  shall  only  be  used  to assist victims and
 6    witnesses in gang crime prosecutions and such assistance  may
 7    include any of the following:
 8             (a)  temporary living costs;
 9             (b)  moving expenses;
10             (c)  closing costs on the sale of private residence;
11             (d)  first month's rent;
12             (e)  security deposits;
13             (f)  apartment location assistance;
14             (g)  other  expenses  which the Department considers
15        appropriate; and
16             (h)  compensation for any loss of or injury to  real
17        or  personal  property  resulting  from a gang crime to a
18        maximum of $5,000, subject to the following provisions:
19                  (1)  in the  case  of  loss  of  property,  the
20             amount  of  compensation  shall  be  measured by the
21             replacement cost of similar or like  property  which
22             has  been  incurred by and which is substantiated by
23             the property owner,
24                  (2)  in the case of  injury  to  property,  the
25             amount of compensation shall be measured by the cost
26             of repair incurred and which can be substantiated by
27             the property owner,
28                  (3)  compensation  under  this  provision  is a
29             secondary  source  of  compensation  and  shall   be
30             reduced  by  any  amount the property owner receives
31             from any other source as compensation for  the  loss
32             or  injury,  including, but not limited to, personal
33             insurance coverage,
34                  (4)  no compensation  may  be  awarded  if  the
 
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 1             property  owner  was an offender or an accomplice of
 2             the offender, or if the award would unjustly benefit
 3             the offender or offenders, or an accomplice  of  the
 4             offender or offenders.
 5        No victim or witness may receive such assistance if he or
 6    she  is  not  a  part  of  or fails to fully cooperate in the
 7    prosecution  of  gang  crime  members  by   law   enforcement
 8    authorities.
 9        The  Department  shall promulgate any rules necessary for
10    the implementation of this amendatory Act of 1985.
11        17.  To conduct arson investigations.
12        18.  To develop a separate statewide  statistical  police
13    contact  record  keeping  system  for  the  study of juvenile
14    delinquency. The records of this police contact system  shall
15    be  limited  to  statistical  information.   No  individually
16    identifiable  information  shall  be maintained in the police
17    contact statistical record system.
18        19.  To develop a separate statewide central adjudicatory
19    and dispositional records system for persons under  19  years
20    of  age  who  have  been adjudicated delinquent minors and to
21    make information available to local registered  participating
22    police  youth  officers so that police youth officers will be
23    able to obtain rapid access to the juvenile's background from
24    other jurisdictions to the end that the police youth officers
25    can make appropriate dispositions which will best  serve  the
26    interest   of  the  child  and  the  community.   Information
27    maintained  in  the  adjudicatory  and  dispositional  record
28    system shall be limited to  the  incidents  or  offenses  for
29    which  the minor was adjudicated delinquent by a court, and a
30    copy of the court's dispositional  order.   All  individually
31    identifiable  records  in  the adjudicatory and dispositional
32    records system shall be destroyed when the person reaches  19
33    years of age.
34        20.  To develop rules which guarantee the confidentiality
 
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 1    of    such   individually   identifiable   adjudicatory   and
 2    dispositional records except when used for the following:
 3             (a)  by authorized juvenile court personnel  or  the
 4        State's Attorney in connection with proceedings under the
 5        Juvenile Court Act of 1987; or
 6             (b)  inquiries    from   registered   police   youth
 7        officers.
 8        For the purposes of this Act "police youth officer" means
 9    a member of a  duly  organized  State,  county  or  municipal
10    police  force  who  is assigned by his or her Superintendent,
11    Sheriff or chief of police, as the case may be, to specialize
12    in youth problems.
13        21.  To develop administrative rules  and  administrative
14    hearing  procedures which allow a minor, his or her attorney,
15    and his or her parents or  guardian  access  to  individually
16    identifiable  adjudicatory  and dispositional records for the
17    purpose of determining or challenging  the  accuracy  of  the
18    records.  Final  administrative decisions shall be subject to
19    the provisions of the Administrative Review Law.
20        22.  To charge,  collect,  and  receive  fees  or  moneys
21    equivalent  to  the  cost  of  providing  Department of State
22    Police  personnel,   equipment,   and   services   to   local
23    governmental  agencies  when  explicitly requested by a local
24    governmental agency  and  pursuant  to  an  intergovernmental
25    agreement  as provided by this Section, other State agencies,
26    and federal agencies, including but not limited  to  fees  or
27    moneys  equivalent  to  the  cost  of  providing  dispatching
28    services,  radio  and  radar  repair,  and  training to local
29    governmental agencies on such terms and conditions as in  the
30    judgment  of  the  Director  are  in the best interest of the
31    State; and to establish, charge, collect and receive fees  or
32    moneys  based  on the cost of providing responses to requests
33    for criminal history record information pursuant to  positive
34    identification  and  any  Illinois or federal law authorizing
 
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 1    access to some aspect of such information  and  to  prescribe
 2    the  form  and  manner  for  requesting  and  furnishing such
 3    information to the requestor on such terms and conditions  as
 4    in  the  judgment of the Director are in the best interest of
 5    the  State,  provided  fees  for  requesting  and  furnishing
 6    criminal  history  record  information  may  be  waived   for
 7    requests  in the due administration of the criminal laws. The
 8    Department may also  charge,  collect  and  receive  fees  or
 9    moneys  equivalent  to  the cost of providing electronic data
10    processing lines or  related  telecommunication  services  to
11    local  governments,  but  only  when  such  services  can  be
12    provided   by  the  Department  at  a  cost  less  than  that
13    experienced by said local governments  through  other  means.
14    All  services  provided  by the Department shall be conducted
15    pursuant   to    contracts    in    accordance    with    the
16    Intergovernmental  Cooperation Act, and all telecommunication
17    services shall be provided  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
18    Section 67.18 of this Code.
19        All fees received by the Department of State Police under
20    this  Act  or the Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act
21    shall be deposited in a special fund in the State Treasury to
22    be known  as  the  State  Police  Services  Fund.  The  money
23    deposited   in  the  State  Police  Services  Fund  shall  be
24    appropriated to the Department of State Police  for  expenses
25    of the Department of State Police.
26        Upon  the  completion  of  any audit of the Department of
27    State Police as prescribed by  the  Illinois  State  Auditing
28    Act,  which  audit  includes  an  audit  of  the State Police
29    Services Fund, the Department of State Police shall make  the
30    audit open to inspection by any interested person.
31        23.  To  exercise the powers and perform the duties which
32    have been vested in the Department of  State  Police  by  the
33    Intergovernmental  Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984, and to
34    establish  reasonable  rules  and  regulations   necessitated
 
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 1    thereby.
 2        24. (a)  To   establish  and  maintain  a  statewide  Law
 3    Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the  purpose  of
 4    providing   electronic   access  by  authorized  entities  to
 5    criminal justice data repositories and effecting an immediate
 6    law enforcement  response  to  reports  of  missing  persons,
 7    including  lost,  missing  or runaway minors.  The Department
 8    shall implement an automatic data exchange system to compile,
 9    to maintain and to make available to  other  law  enforcement
10    agencies  for  immediate  dissemination data which can assist
11    appropriate  agencies  in  recovering  missing  persons   and
12    provide   access  by  authorized  entities  to  various  data
13    repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and
14    related purposes.  To assist the Department in  this  effort,
15    funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
16        (b)  In  exercising its duties under this subsection, the
17    Department shall:
18             (1)  provide a  uniform  reporting  format  for  the
19        entry  of pertinent information regarding the report of a
20        missing person into LEADS;
21             (2)  develop  and  implement  a  policy  whereby   a
22        statewide  or  regional alert would be used in situations
23        relating to the disappearances of individuals,  based  on
24        criteria  and  in a format established by the Department.
25        Such a format shall include, but not be limited  to,  the
26        age  of the missing person and the suspected circumstance
27        of the disappearance;
28             (3)  notify  all  law  enforcement   agencies   that
29        reports  of  missing  persons shall be entered as soon as
30        the minimum level of data specified by the Department  is
31        available  to  the  reporting agency, and that no waiting
32        period for the entry of such data exists;
33             (4)  compile and retain information regarding  lost,
34        abducted,  missing  or  runaway minors in a separate data
 
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 1        file, in a manner that allows such information to be used
 2        by law enforcement and other agencies deemed  appropriate
 3        by   the  Director,  for  investigative  purposes.   Such
 4        information shall include the disposition of all reported
 5        lost, abducted, missing or runaway minor cases;
 6             (5)  compile   and   maintain   an   historic   data
 7        repository relating to lost, abducted, missing or runaway
 8        minors and other missing persons in order to develop  and
 9        improve  techniques  utilized by law enforcement agencies
10        when responding to reports of missing persons; and
11             (6)  create  a  quality  control  program  regarding
12        confirmation  of  missing  person  data,  timeliness   of
13        entries   of   missing  person  reports  into  LEADS  and
14        performance audits of all entering agencies.
15        25.  On  request  of   a   school   board   or   regional
16    superintendent  of schools, to conduct an inquiry pursuant to
17    Section 10-21.9 or 34-18.5 of the School Code to ascertain if
18    an applicant for employment in a  school  district  has  been
19    convicted  of  any  criminal  or  drug offenses enumerated in
20    Section  10-21.9  or  34-18.5  of  the  School   Code.    The
21    Department  shall  furnish such conviction information to the
22    President of the school board of the  school  district  which
23    has  requested  the  information,  or  if the information was
24    requested by the regional  superintendent  to  that  regional
25    superintendent.
26        26.  To  promulgate  rules  and regulations necessary for
27    the administration and enforcement of its powers and  duties,
28    wherever  granted  and  imposed,  pursuant  to  the  Illinois
29    Administrative Procedure Act.
30        27.  To   (a)   promulgate   rules   pertaining   to  the
31    certification, revocation of certification  and  training  of
32    law  enforcement officers as electronic criminal surveillance
33    officers, (b) provide training and  technical  assistance  to
34    State's   Attorneys   and   local  law  enforcement  agencies
 
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 1    pertaining   to   the   interception    of    private    oral
 2    communications,   (c)  promulgate  rules  necessary  for  the
 3    administration of  Article  108B  of  the  Code  of  Criminal
 4    Procedure of 1963, including but not limited to standards for
 5    recording    and    minimization   of   electronic   criminal
 6    surveillance  intercepts,  documentation   required   to   be
 7    maintained  during  an  intercept,  procedures in relation to
 8    evidence  developed  by  an  intercept,  and  (d)  charge   a
 9    reasonable  fee  to  each  law  enforcement agency that sends
10    officers  to  receive   training   as   electronic   criminal
11    surveillance officers.
12        28.  Upon  the  request of any private organization which
13    devotes a major portion of  its  time  to  the  provision  of
14    recreational, social, educational or child safety services to
15    children,  to  conduct,  pursuant to positive identification,
16    criminal   background   investigations   of   all   of   that
17    organization's   current   employees,   current   volunteers,
18    prospective employees or prospective volunteers charged  with
19    the  care and custody of children during the provision of the
20    organization's services, and  to  report  to  the  requesting
21    organization  any  record  of  convictions  maintained in the
22    Department's files about such persons.  The Department  shall
23    charge  an  application  fee,  based on actual costs, for the
24    dissemination of  conviction  information  pursuant  to  this
25    subsection.   The  Department  is empowered to establish this
26    fee and shall prescribe the form and  manner  for  requesting
27    and   furnishing  conviction  information  pursuant  to  this
28    subsection. Information received by the organization from the
29    Department concerning an individual shall be provided to such
30    individual.    Any   such   information   obtained   by   the
31    organization shall be confidential and may not be transmitted
32    outside the organization and may not be transmitted to anyone
33    within the organization except as needed for the  purpose  of
34    evaluating  the  individual.  Only  information and standards
 
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 1    which  bear  a  reasonable  and  rational  relation  to   the
 2    performance  of child care shall be used by the organization.
 3    Any employee of the Department or  any  member,  employee  or
 4    volunteer   of   the   organization   receiving  confidential
 5    information under this subsection who gives or causes  to  be
 6    given  any  confidential  information concerning any criminal
 7    convictions of an individual shall be guilty  of  a  Class  A
 8    misdemeanor  unless release of such information is authorized
 9    by this subsection.
10        29.  Upon the request of the Department of  Children  and
11    Family  Services,  to  investigate  reports of child abuse or
12    neglect.
13        30.  To obtain registration of a fictitious vital  record
14    pursuant to Section 15.1 of the Vital Records Act.
15        31.  To  collect  and disseminate information relating to
16    "hate crimes" as defined under Section 12-7.1 of the Criminal
17    Code of 1961 contingent upon the  availability  of  State  or
18    Federal  funds  to  revise  and  upgrade the Illinois Uniform
19    Crime Reporting System.  All law enforcement  agencies  shall
20    report  monthly  to the Department of State Police concerning
21    such offenses in such form and  in  such  manner  as  may  be
22    prescribed by rules and regulations adopted by the Department
23    of  State  Police.  Such information shall be compiled by the
24    Department and be disseminated upon request to any local  law
25    enforcement  agency,  unit  of  local  government,  or  state
26    agency.   Dissemination  of such information shall be subject
27    to all confidentiality requirements otherwise imposed by law.
28    The Department of State Police  shall  provide  training  for
29    State  Police  officers  in  identifying,  responding to, and
30    reporting all hate crimes. The  Illinois  Local  Governmental
31    Law  Enforcement  Officer's  Training  Standards  Board shall
32    develop and certify a course of  such  training  to  be  made
33    available to local law enforcement officers.
34        32.  Upon  the  request of a private carrier company that
 
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 1    provides transportation under Section 28b of the Metropolitan
 2    Transit Authority Act, to ascertain if  an  applicant  for  a
 3    driver  position  has  been convicted of any criminal or drug
 4    offense enumerated in Section 28b of the Metropolitan Transit
 5    Authority Act.  The Department shall furnish  the  conviction
 6    information to the private carrier company that requested the
 7    information.
 8        33.  To  apply  for grants or contracts, receive, expend,
 9    allocate, or disburse funds  and  moneys  made  available  by
10    public  or  private  entities, including, but not limited to,
11    contracts, bequests,  grants,  or  receiving  equipment  from
12    corporations,  foundations, or public or private institutions
13    of higher learning.  All funds  received  by  the  Department
14    from  these  sources  shall be deposited into the appropriate
15    fund  in  the  State  Treasury  to  be  appropriated  to  the
16    Department for  purposes  as  indicated  by  the  grantor  or
17    contractor  or,  in the case of funds or moneys bequeathed or
18    granted for no specific purpose, for any  purpose  as  deemed
19    appropriate    by   the   Director   in   administering   the
20    responsibilities of the Department.
21        34.  Upon the request of the Department of  Children  and
22    Family Services, the Department of State Police shall provide
23    properly  designated  employees of the Department of Children
24    and Family Services with criminal history record  information
25    as defined in the Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act
26    and   information   maintained   in   the   adjudicatory  and
27    dispositional record system as defined in  subdivision  (A)19
28    of  this  Section  if  the  Department of Children and Family
29    Services determines the information is necessary  to  perform
30    its  duties  under  the  Abused and Neglected Child Reporting
31    Act, the Child Care Act of 1969, and the Children and  Family
32    Services  Act.   The  request shall be in the form and manner
33    specified by the Department of State Police.
34        35.  The  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid   is   an
 
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 1    authorized  entity  under  this  Section  for  the purpose of
 2    obtaining  access  to  various  data  repositories  available
 3    through LEADS, to facilitate the location of individuals  for
 4    establishing  paternity,  and  establishing,  modifying,  and
 5    enforcing child support obligations, pursuant to the Illinois
 6    Public  Aid  Code and Title IV, Part D of the Social Security
 7    Act.  The Department shall enter into an agreement  with  the
 8    Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid  consistent  with these
 9    purposes.
10        36.  Upon request of the Department of Human Services, to
11    conduct an assessment  and  evaluation  of  sexually  violent
12    persons   as   mandated   by  the  Sexually  Violent  Persons
13    Commitment Act, the Department shall furnish criminal history
14    information maintained on the requested person.  The  request
15    shall be in the form and manner specified by the Department.
16        37.  To  provide  training  and  continuing  education to
17    State  Police   officers   concerning   cultural   diversity,
18    including  sensitivity  toward racial and ethnic differences.
19    This training and continuing education shall include, but not
20    be limited to, an emphasis  on  the  fact  that  the  primary
21    purpose of enforcement of the Illinois Vehicle Code is safety
22    and equal and uniform enforcement under the law.
23        (B)  The  Department  of  State  Police may establish and
24    maintain, within the Department of State Police, a  Statewide
25    Organized  Criminal  Gang Database (SWORD) for the purpose of
26    tracking organized  criminal  gangs  and  their  memberships.
27    Information  in  the database may include, but not be limited
28    to, the  name,  last  known  address,  birth  date,  physical
29    descriptions  (such  as  scars,  marks,  or tattoos), officer
30    safety information, organized gang affiliation, and  entering
31    agency   identifier.    The   Department   may   develop,  in
32    consultation with the Criminal Justice Information Authority,
33    and in a form and manner prescribed  by  the  Department,  an
34    automated  data  exchange system to compile, to maintain, and
 
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 1    to  make  this  information   electronically   available   to
 2    prosecutors  and  to  other  law  enforcement  agencies.  The
 3    information may be used by authorized agencies to combat  the
 4    operations of organized criminal gangs statewide.
 5        (C)  The  Department  of  State  Police may ascertain the
 6    number of  bilingual  police  officers  and  other  personnel
 7    needed  to  provide services in a language other than English
 8    and may  establish,  under  applicable  personnel  rules  and
 9    Department  guidelines  or  through  a  collective bargaining
10    agreement, a bilingual pay supplement program.
11    (Source:  P.A.  89-54,  eff.  6-30-95;  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;
12    90-130,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-372,  eff.  7-1-98;  90-655,  eff.
13    7-30-98; 90-793, eff. 8-14-98; revised 10-6-98.)

14        (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 90-590)
15        Sec. 55a. Powers and duties.
16        (A)  The  Department  of  State  Police  shall  have  the
17    following powers and duties, and those set forth in  Sections
18    55a-1 through 55c:
19        1.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
20    been vested in the Department of Public Safety by  the  State
21    Police Act.
22        2.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
23    been vested in the Department of Public Safety by  the  State
24    Police Radio Act.
25        3.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
26    been vested  in  the  Department  of  Public  Safety  by  the
27    Criminal Identification Act.
28        4.  To (a) investigate the origins, activities, personnel
29    and  incidents of crime and the ways and means to redress the
30    victims  of  crimes,  and  study  the  impact,  if  any,   of
31    legislation  relative  to  the  effusion of crime and growing
32    crime rates, and enforce the  criminal  laws  of  this  State
33    related   thereto,   (b)  enforce  all  laws  regulating  the
34    production, sale, prescribing, manufacturing,  administering,
 
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 1    transporting,  having  in possession, dispensing, delivering,
 2    distributing, or use of controlled substances  and  cannabis,
 3    (c)   employ   skilled   experts,   scientists,  technicians,
 4    investigators or otherwise specially qualified persons to aid
 5    in preventing or detecting crime, apprehending criminals,  or
 6    preparing  and  presenting  evidence  of  violations  of  the
 7    criminal  laws of the State, (d) cooperate with the police of
 8    cities, villages and incorporated towns, and with the  police
 9    officers  of  any  county, in enforcing the laws of the State
10    and in making arrests and recovering property, (e)  apprehend
11    and  deliver up any person charged in this State or any other
12    State of the United States with  treason,  felony,  or  other
13    crime,  who has fled from justice and is found in this State,
14    and (f) conduct such other investigations as may be  provided
15    by law. Persons exercising these powers within the Department
16    are conservators of the peace and as such have all the powers
17    possessed  by  policemen  in cities and sheriffs, except that
18    they may exercise  such  powers  anywhere  in  the  State  in
19    cooperation  with  and  after  contact  with  the  local  law
20    enforcement   officials.   Such  persons  may  use  false  or
21    fictitious names in the performance  of  their  duties  under
22    this  paragraph, upon approval of the Director, and shall not
23    be subject to prosecution under the criminal  laws  for  such
24    use.
25        5.  To:  (a)  be  a  central  repository and custodian of
26    criminal  statistics  for  the  State,  (b)  be   a   central
27    repository  for  criminal  history  record  information,  (c)
28    procure  and file for record such information as is necessary
29    and  helpful  to  plan  programs  of  crime  prevention,  law
30    enforcement and criminal justice, (d) procure  and  file  for
31    record  such  copies  of  fingerprints, as may be required by
32    law, (e) establish general and field crime laboratories,  (f)
33    register  and  file  for  record  such  information as may be
34    required  by  law  for  the  issuance  of   firearm   owner's
 
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 1    identification   cards,   (g)   employ  polygraph  operators,
 2    laboratory technicians and other specially qualified  persons
 3    to  aid  in  the identification of criminal activity, and (h)
 4    undertake such other identification, information, laboratory,
 5    statistical or registration activities as may be required  by
 6    law.
 7        6.  To   (a)  acquire  and  operate  one  or  more  radio
 8    broadcasting stations in the State  to  be  used  for  police
 9    purposes,  (b)  operate a statewide communications network to
10    gather  and  disseminate  information  for  law   enforcement
11    agencies,  (c)  operate  an  electronic  data  processing and
12    computer  center  for  the  storage  and  retrieval  of  data
13    pertaining to criminal activity, and (d) undertake such other
14    communication activities as may be required by law.
15        7.  To provide, as may be required by law, assistance  to
16    local   law   enforcement   agencies  through  (a)  training,
17    management and consultant services for local law  enforcement
18    agencies, and (b) the pursuit of research and the publication
19    of studies pertaining to local law enforcement activities.
20        8.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
21    been vested  in  the  Department  of  State  Police  and  the
22    Director  of  the  Department of State Police by the Narcotic
23    Control Division Abolition Act.
24        9.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which  have
25    been  vested  in  the  Department  of  Public  Safety  by the
26    Illinois Vehicle Code.
27        10.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
28    been vested in the Department of Public Safety by the Firearm
29    Owners Identification Card Act.
30        11.  To  enforce  and  administer  such  other  laws   in
31    relation   to  law  enforcement  as  may  be  vested  in  the
32    Department.
33        12.  To transfer jurisdiction  of  any  realty  title  to
34    which  is  held by the State of Illinois under the control of
 
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 1    the  Department  to  any  other  department  of   the   State
 2    government  or  to the State Employees Housing Commission, or
 3    to acquire  or  accept  Federal  land,  when  such  transfer,
 4    acquisition or acceptance is advantageous to the State and is
 5    approved in writing by the Governor.
 6        13.  With  the written approval of the Governor, to enter
 7    into agreements with other departments created by  this  Act,
 8    for the furlough of inmates of the penitentiary to such other
 9    departments   for   their  use  in  research  programs  being
10    conducted by them.
11        For  the  purpose  of  participating  in  such   research
12    projects,  the  Department  may  extend  the  limits  of  any
13    inmate's place of confinement, when there is reasonable cause
14    to  believe  that  the  inmate will honor his or her trust by
15    authorizing the inmate, under prescribed conditions, to leave
16    the confines of the place unaccompanied by a custodial  agent
17    of  the Department. The Department shall make rules governing
18    the transfer of the inmate to the requesting other department
19    having the approved research project, and the return of  such
20    inmate  to  the unextended confines of the penitentiary. Such
21    transfer shall be made only with the consent of the inmate.
22        The willful failure of a prisoner to  remain  within  the
23    extended limits of his or her confinement or to return within
24    the  time  or  manner  prescribed to the place of confinement
25    designated by the Department in granting such extension shall
26    be deemed an  escape  from  custody  of  the  Department  and
27    punishable  as  provided in Section 3-6-4 of the Unified Code
28    of Corrections.
29        14.  To provide investigative services, with all  of  the
30    powers  possessed by policemen in cities and sheriffs, in and
31    around all race tracks subject to the  Horse  Racing  Act  of
32    1975.
33        15.  To  expend such sums as the Director deems necessary
34    from Contractual Services appropriations for the Division  of
 
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 1    Criminal  Investigation  for the purchase of evidence and for
 2    the employment of persons to obtain evidence. Such sums shall
 3    be advanced to agents authorized by the  Director  to  expend
 4    funds, on vouchers signed by the Director.
 5        16.  To  assist  victims  and  witnesses  in  gang  crime
 6    prosecutions through the administration of funds appropriated
 7    from  the  Gang  Violence  Victims  and Witnesses Fund to the
 8    Department.   Such  funds  shall  be  appropriated   to   the
 9    Department  and  shall  only  be  used  to assist victims and
10    witnesses in gang crime prosecutions and such assistance  may
11    include any of the following:
12             (a)  temporary living costs;
13             (b)  moving expenses;
14             (c)  closing costs on the sale of private residence;
15             (d)  first month's rent;
16             (e)  security deposits;
17             (f)  apartment location assistance;
18             (g)  other  expenses  which the Department considers
19        appropriate; and
20             (h)  compensation for any loss of or injury to  real
21        or  personal  property  resulting  from a gang crime to a
22        maximum of $5,000, subject to the following provisions:
23                  (1)  in the  case  of  loss  of  property,  the
24             amount  of  compensation  shall  be  measured by the
25             replacement cost of similar or like  property  which
26             has  been  incurred by and which is substantiated by
27             the property owner,
28                  (2)  in the case of  injury  to  property,  the
29             amount of compensation shall be measured by the cost
30             of repair incurred and which can be substantiated by
31             the property owner,
32                  (3)  compensation  under  this  provision  is a
33             secondary  source  of  compensation  and  shall   be
34             reduced  by  any  amount the property owner receives
 
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 1             from any other source as compensation for  the  loss
 2             or  injury,  including, but not limited to, personal
 3             insurance coverage,
 4                  (4)  no compensation  may  be  awarded  if  the
 5             property  owner  was an offender or an accomplice of
 6             the offender, or if the award would unjustly benefit
 7             the offender or offenders, or an accomplice  of  the
 8             offender or offenders.
 9        No victim or witness may receive such assistance if he or
10    she  is  not  a  part  of  or fails to fully cooperate in the
11    prosecution  of  gang  crime  members  by   law   enforcement
12    authorities.
13        The  Department  shall promulgate any rules necessary for
14    the implementation of this amendatory Act of 1985.
15        17.  To conduct arson investigations.
16        18.  To develop a separate statewide  statistical  police
17    contact  record  keeping  system  for  the  study of juvenile
18    delinquency. The records of this police contact system  shall
19    be  limited  to  statistical  information.   No  individually
20    identifiable  information  shall  be maintained in the police
21    contact statistical record system.
22        19.  To develop a  separate  statewide  central  juvenile
23    records  system  for  persons arrested prior to the age of 17
24    under Section 5-401 of the Juvenile  Court  Act  of  1987  or
25    adjudicated   delinquent   minors  and  to  make  information
26    available to local  law  enforcement  officers  so  that  law
27    enforcement  officers  will be able to obtain rapid access to
28    the background of the minor from other jurisdictions  to  the
29    end  that  the  juvenile police officers can make appropriate
30    decisions which will best serve the interest of the child and
31    the community.   The  Department  shall  submit  a  quarterly
32    report  to  the  General  Assembly  and  Governor which shall
33    contain the number of juvenile records  that  the  Department
34    has  received  in  that  quarter and, a list, by category, of
 
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 1    offenses that minors were arrested for  or  convicted  of  by
 2    age, race and gender.
 3        20.  To develop rules which guarantee the confidentiality
 4    of  such individually identifiable juvenile records except to
 5    juvenile authorities who request information  concerning  the
 6    minor  and  who  certify in writing that the information will
 7    not be disclosed to any other party except as provided  under
 8    law  or  order  of  court.   For  purposes  of  this Section,
 9    "juvenile authorities" means: (i)  a  judge  of  the  circuit
10    court and members of the staff of the court designated by the
11    judge;  (ii)  parties  to  the proceedings under the Juvenile
12    Court Act  of  1987  and  their  attorneys;  (iii)  probation
13    officers  and  court  appointed  advocates  for  the juvenile
14    authorized by the judge hearing the case; (iv) any individual
15    or, public or of private agency having custody of  the  child
16    pursuant  to  court  order;  (v) any individual or, public or
17    private agency providing education, medical or mental  health
18    service to the child when the requested information is needed
19    to  determine  the  appropriate  service or treatment for the
20    minor;  (vi)  any  potential  placement  provider  when  such
21    release is authorized by the court for the limited purpose of
22    determining the appropriateness of the  potential  placement;
23    (vii)  law enforcement officers and prosecutors; (viii) adult
24    and juvenile prisoner review boards; (ix) authorized military
25    personnel; (x) individuals  authorized  by  court;  (xi)  the
26    Illinois  General  Assembly  or  any  committee or commission
27    thereof.
28        21.  To develop administrative rules  and  administrative
29    hearing  procedures which allow a minor, his or her attorney,
30    and his or her parents or  guardian  access  to  individually
31    identifiable  juvenile records for the purpose of determining
32    or  challenging  the  accuracy   of   the   records.    Final
33    administrative  decisions  shall be subject to the provisions
34    of the Administrative Review Law.
 
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 1        22.  To charge,  collect,  and  receive  fees  or  moneys
 2    equivalent  to  the  cost  of  providing  Department of State
 3    Police  personnel,   equipment,   and   services   to   local
 4    governmental  agencies  when  explicitly requested by a local
 5    governmental agency  and  pursuant  to  an  intergovernmental
 6    agreement  as provided by this Section, other State agencies,
 7    and federal agencies, including but not limited  to  fees  or
 8    moneys  equivalent  to  the  cost  of  providing  dispatching
 9    services,  radio  and  radar  repair,  and  training to local
10    governmental agencies on such terms and conditions as in  the
11    judgment  of  the  Director  are  in the best interest of the
12    State; and to establish, charge, collect and receive fees  or
13    moneys  based  on the cost of providing responses to requests
14    for criminal history record information pursuant to  positive
15    identification  and  any  Illinois or federal law authorizing
16    access to some aspect of such information  and  to  prescribe
17    the  form  and  manner  for  requesting  and  furnishing such
18    information to the requestor on such terms and conditions  as
19    in  the  judgment of the Director are in the best interest of
20    the  State,  provided  fees  for  requesting  and  furnishing
21    criminal  history  record  information  may  be  waived   for
22    requests  in the due administration of the criminal laws. The
23    Department may also  charge,  collect  and  receive  fees  or
24    moneys  equivalent  to  the cost of providing electronic data
25    processing lines or  related  telecommunication  services  to
26    local  governments,  but  only  when  such  services  can  be
27    provided   by  the  Department  at  a  cost  less  than  that
28    experienced by said local governments  through  other  means.
29    All  services  provided  by the Department shall be conducted
30    pursuant   to    contracts    in    accordance    with    the
31    Intergovernmental  Cooperation Act, and all telecommunication
32    services shall be provided  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
33    Section 67.18 of this Code.
34        All fees received by the Department of State Police under
 
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 1    this  Act  or the Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act
 2    shall be deposited in a special fund in the State Treasury to
 3    be known  as  the  State  Police  Services  Fund.  The  money
 4    deposited   in  the  State  Police  Services  Fund  shall  be
 5    appropriated to the Department of State Police  for  expenses
 6    of the Department of State Police.
 7        Upon  the  completion  of  any audit of the Department of
 8    State Police as prescribed by  the  Illinois  State  Auditing
 9    Act,  which  audit  includes  an  audit  of  the State Police
10    Services Fund, the Department of State Police shall make  the
11    audit open to inspection by any interested person.
12        23.  To  exercise the powers and perform the duties which
13    have been vested in the Department of  State  Police  by  the
14    Intergovernmental  Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984, and to
15    establish  reasonable  rules  and  regulations   necessitated
16    thereby.
17        24. (a)  To   establish  and  maintain  a  statewide  Law
18    Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) for the  purpose  of
19    providing   electronic   access  by  authorized  entities  to
20    criminal justice data repositories and effecting an immediate
21    law enforcement  response  to  reports  of  missing  persons,
22    including  lost,  missing  or runaway minors.  The Department
23    shall implement an automatic data exchange system to compile,
24    to maintain and to make available to  other  law  enforcement
25    agencies  for  immediate  dissemination data which can assist
26    appropriate  agencies  in  recovering  missing  persons   and
27    provide   access  by  authorized  entities  to  various  data
28    repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and
29    related purposes.  To assist the Department in  this  effort,
30    funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
31        (b)  In  exercising its duties under this subsection, the
32    Department shall:
33             (1)  provide a  uniform  reporting  format  for  the
34        entry  of pertinent information regarding the report of a
 
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 1        missing person into LEADS;
 2             (2)  develop  and  implement  a  policy  whereby   a
 3        statewide  or  regional alert would be used in situations
 4        relating to the disappearances of individuals,  based  on
 5        criteria  and  in a format established by the Department.
 6        Such a format shall include, but not be limited  to,  the
 7        age  of the missing person and the suspected circumstance
 8        of the disappearance;
 9             (3)  notify  all  law  enforcement   agencies   that
10        reports  of  missing  persons shall be entered as soon as
11        the minimum level of data specified by the Department  is
12        available  to  the  reporting agency, and that no waiting
13        period for the entry of such data exists;
14             (4)  compile and retain information regarding  lost,
15        abducted,  missing  or  runaway minors in a separate data
16        file, in a manner that allows such information to be used
17        by law enforcement and other agencies deemed  appropriate
18        by   the  Director,  for  investigative  purposes.   Such
19        information shall include the disposition of all reported
20        lost, abducted, missing or runaway minor cases;
21             (5)  compile   and   maintain   an   historic   data
22        repository relating to lost, abducted, missing or runaway
23        minors and other missing persons in order to develop  and
24        improve  techniques  utilized by law enforcement agencies
25        when responding to reports of missing persons; and
26             (6)  create  a  quality  control  program  regarding
27        confirmation  of  missing  person  data,  timeliness   of
28        entries   of   missing  person  reports  into  LEADS  and
29        performance audits of all entering agencies.
30        25.  On  request  of   a   school   board   or   regional
31    superintendent  of schools, to conduct an inquiry pursuant to
32    Section 10-21.9 or 34-18.5 of the School Code to ascertain if
33    an applicant for employment in a  school  district  has  been
34    convicted  of  any  criminal  or  drug offenses enumerated in
 
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 1    Section  10-21.9  or  34-18.5  of  the  School   Code.    The
 2    Department  shall  furnish such conviction information to the
 3    President of the school board of the  school  district  which
 4    has  requested  the  information,  or  if the information was
 5    requested by the regional  superintendent  to  that  regional
 6    superintendent.
 7        26.  To  promulgate  rules  and regulations necessary for
 8    the administration and enforcement of its powers and  duties,
 9    wherever  granted  and  imposed,  pursuant  to  the  Illinois
10    Administrative Procedure Act.
11        27.  To   (a)   promulgate   rules   pertaining   to  the
12    certification, revocation of certification  and  training  of
13    law  enforcement officers as electronic criminal surveillance
14    officers, (b) provide training and  technical  assistance  to
15    State's   Attorneys   and   local  law  enforcement  agencies
16    pertaining   to   the   interception    of    private    oral
17    communications,   (c)  promulgate  rules  necessary  for  the
18    administration of  Article  108B  of  the  Code  of  Criminal
19    Procedure of 1963, including but not limited to standards for
20    recording    and    minimization   of   electronic   criminal
21    surveillance  intercepts,  documentation   required   to   be
22    maintained  during  an  intercept,  procedures in relation to
23    evidence  developed  by  an  intercept,  and  (d)  charge   a
24    reasonable  fee  to  each  law  enforcement agency that sends
25    officers  to  receive   training   as   electronic   criminal
26    surveillance officers.
27        28.  Upon  the  request of any private organization which
28    devotes a major portion of  its  time  to  the  provision  of
29    recreational, social, educational or child safety services to
30    children,  to  conduct,  pursuant to positive identification,
31    criminal   background   investigations   of   all   of   that
32    organization's   current   employees,   current   volunteers,
33    prospective employees or prospective volunteers charged  with
34    the  care and custody of children during the provision of the
 
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 1    organization's services, and  to  report  to  the  requesting
 2    organization  any  record  of  convictions  maintained in the
 3    Department's files about such persons.  The Department  shall
 4    charge  an  application  fee,  based on actual costs, for the
 5    dissemination of  conviction  information  pursuant  to  this
 6    subsection.   The  Department  is empowered to establish this
 7    fee and shall prescribe the form and  manner  for  requesting
 8    and   furnishing  conviction  information  pursuant  to  this
 9    subsection. Information received by the organization from the
10    Department concerning an individual shall be provided to such
11    individual.    Any   such   information   obtained   by   the
12    organization shall be confidential and may not be transmitted
13    outside the organization and may not be transmitted to anyone
14    within the organization except as needed for the  purpose  of
15    evaluating  the  individual.  Only  information and standards
16    which  bear  a  reasonable  and  rational  relation  to   the
17    performance  of child care shall be used by the organization.
18    Any employee of the Department or  any  member,  employee  or
19    volunteer   of   the   organization   receiving  confidential
20    information under this subsection who gives or causes  to  be
21    given  any  confidential  information concerning any criminal
22    convictions of an individual shall be guilty  of  a  Class  A
23    misdemeanor  unless release of such information is authorized
24    by this subsection.
25        29.  Upon the request of the Department of  Children  and
26    Family  Services,  to  investigate  reports of child abuse or
27    neglect.
28        30.  To obtain registration of a fictitious vital  record
29    pursuant to Section 15.1 of the Vital Records Act.
30        31.  To  collect  and disseminate information relating to
31    "hate crimes" as defined under Section 12-7.1 of the Criminal
32    Code of 1961 contingent upon the  availability  of  State  or
33    Federal  funds  to  revise  and  upgrade the Illinois Uniform
34    Crime Reporting System.  All law enforcement  agencies  shall
 
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 1    report  monthly  to the Department of State Police concerning
 2    such offenses in such form and  in  such  manner  as  may  be
 3    prescribed by rules and regulations adopted by the Department
 4    of  State  Police.  Such information shall be compiled by the
 5    Department and be disseminated upon request to any local  law
 6    enforcement  agency,  unit  of  local  government,  or  state
 7    agency.   Dissemination  of such information shall be subject
 8    to all confidentiality requirements otherwise imposed by law.
 9    The Department of State Police  shall  provide  training  for
10    State  Police  officers  in  identifying,  responding to, and
11    reporting all  hate  crimes.  The  Illinois  Law  Enforcement
12    Training  Standards  Board shall develop and certify a course
13    of  such  training  to  be  made  available  to   local   law
14    enforcement officers.
15        32.  Upon  the  request of a private carrier company that
16    provides transportation under Section 28b of the Metropolitan
17    Transit Authority Act, to ascertain if  an  applicant  for  a
18    driver  position  has  been convicted of any criminal or drug
19    offense enumerated in Section 28b of the Metropolitan Transit
20    Authority Act.  The Department shall furnish  the  conviction
21    information to the private carrier company that requested the
22    information.
23        33.  To  apply  for grants or contracts, receive, expend,
24    allocate, or disburse funds  and  moneys  made  available  by
25    public  or  private  entities, including, but not limited to,
26    contracts, bequests,  grants,  or  receiving  equipment  from
27    corporations,  foundations, or public or private institutions
28    of higher learning.  All funds  received  by  the  Department
29    from  these  sources  shall be deposited into the appropriate
30    fund  in  the  State  Treasury  to  be  appropriated  to  the
31    Department for  purposes  as  indicated  by  the  grantor  or
32    contractor  or,  in the case of funds or moneys bequeathed or
33    granted for no specific purpose, for any  purpose  as  deemed
34    appropriate    by   the   Director   in   administering   the
 
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 1    responsibilities of the Department.
 2        34.  Upon the request of the Department of  Children  and
 3    Family Services, the Department of State Police shall provide
 4    properly  designated  employees of the Department of Children
 5    and Family Services with criminal history record  information
 6    as defined in the Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act
 7    and  information maintained in the Statewide Central Juvenile
 8    record system as defined in subdivision (A)19 of this Section
 9    if the Department of Children and Family Services  determines
10    the  information is necessary to perform its duties under the
11    Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, the Child Care  Act
12    of  1969,  and  the  Children  and  Family Services Act.  The
13    request shall be in the form  and  manner  specified  by  the
14    Department of State Police.
15        35.  The   Illinois   Department  of  Public  Aid  is  an
16    authorized entity under  this  Section  for  the  purpose  of
17    exchanging  information,  in  the form and manner required by
18    the Department of State Police, obtaining access  to  various
19    data  repositories available through LEADS, to facilitate the
20    location  of  individuals  for  establishing  paternity,  and
21    establishing,  modifying,   and   enforcing   child   support
22    obligations,  pursuant  to  the  Illinois Public Aid Code and
23    Title IV, Part Section D of the  Social  Security  Act.   The
24    Department  shall  enter  into an agreement with the Illinois
25    Department of Public Aid consistent with these purposes.
26        36.  Upon request of the Department of Human Services, to
27    conduct an assessment  and  evaluation  of  sexually  violent
28    persons   as   mandated   by  the  Sexually  Violent  Persons
29    Commitment Act, the Department shall furnish criminal history
30    information maintained on the requested person.  The  request
31    shall be in the form and manner specified by the Department.
32        37.  To  provide  training  and  continuing  education to
33    State  Police   officers   concerning   cultural   diversity,
34    including  sensitivity  toward racial and ethnic differences.
 
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 1    This training and continuing education shall include, but not
 2    be limited to, an emphasis  on  the  fact  that  the  primary
 3    purpose of enforcement of the Illinois Vehicle Code is safety
 4    and equal and uniform enforcement under the law.
 5        (B)  The  Department  of  State  Police may establish and
 6    maintain, within the Department of State Police, a  Statewide
 7    Organized  Criminal  Gang Database (SWORD) for the purpose of
 8    tracking organized  criminal  gangs  and  their  memberships.
 9    Information  in  the database may include, but not be limited
10    to, the  name,  last  known  address,  birth  date,  physical
11    descriptions  (such  as  scars,  marks,  or tattoos), officer
12    safety information, organized gang affiliation, and  entering
13    agency   identifier.    The   Department   may   develop,  in
14    consultation with the Criminal Justice Information Authority,
15    and in a form and manner prescribed  by  the  Department,  an
16    automated  data  exchange system to compile, to maintain, and
17    to  make  this  information   electronically   available   to
18    prosecutors  and  to  other  law  enforcement  agencies.  The
19    information may be used by authorized agencies to combat  the
20    operations of organized criminal gangs statewide.
21        (C)  The  Department  of  State  Police may ascertain the
22    number of  bilingual  police  officers  and  other  personnel
23    needed  to  provide services in a language other than English
24    and may  establish,  under  applicable  personnel  rules  and
25    Department  guidelines  or  through  a  collective bargaining
26    agreement, a bilingual pay supplement program.
27    (Source:  P.A.  89-54,  eff.  6-30-95;  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;
28    90-130,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-372,  eff.  7-1-98;  90-590,  eff.
29    1-1-00; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98; 90-793, eff.  8-14-98;  revised
30    1-21-99.)

31        Section  10.  The Illinois Police Training Act is amended
32    by changing Section 7 as follows:
 
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 1        (50 ILCS 705/7) (from Ch. 85, par. 507)
 2        Sec. 7. Rules and standards for schools.  The Board shall
 3    adopt rules and minimum  standards  for  such  schools  which
 4    shall include but not be limited to the following:
 5        a.  The curriculum for probationary police officers which
 6    shall  be  offered by all certified schools shall include but
 7    not be limited to courses  of  arrest,  search  and  seizure,
 8    civil  rights, human relations, cultural diversity, including
 9    racial and ethnic sensitivity, criminal law, law of  criminal
10    procedure,  vehicle  and  traffic  law  including uniform and
11    non-discriminatory enforcement of the Illinois Vehicle  Code,
12    traffic  control  and  accident  investigation, techniques of
13    obtaining physical evidence, court  testimonies,  statements,
14    reports,     firearms    training,    first-aid    (including
15    cardiopulmonary   resuscitation),   handling   of    juvenile
16    offenders,  recognition  of  mental  conditions which require
17    immediate assistance and methods  to  safeguard  and  provide
18    assistance  to  a  person in need of mental treatment, law of
19    evidence, the hazards of  high-speed  police  vehicle  chases
20    with an emphasis on alternatives to the high-speed chase, and
21    physical  training.  The  curriculum  shall  include specific
22    training  in  techniques  for  immediate  response   to   and
23    investigation  of  cases  of  domestic violence and of sexual
24    assault of adults and children. The curriculum for  permanent
25    police  officers  shall  include  but  not  be limited to (1)
26    refresher and in-service  training  in  any  of  the  courses
27    listed  above  in  this subparagraph, (2) advanced courses in
28    any of the subjects listed above in  this  subparagraph,  (3)
29    training  for  supervisory  personnel,  and  (4)  specialized
30    training in subjects and fields to be selected by the board.
31        b.  Minimum courses of study, attendance requirements and
32    equipment requirements.
33        c.  Minimum requirements for instructors.
34        d.  Minimum   basic   training   requirements,   which  a
 
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 1    probationary  police  officer  must  satisfactorily  complete
 2    before being eligible for permanent employment as a local law
 3    enforcement officer for a  participating  local  governmental
 4    agency.   Those  requirements shall include training in first
 5    aid (including cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
 6        e.  Minimum  basic   training   requirements,   which   a
 7    probationary  county  corrections officer must satisfactorily
 8    complete before being eligible for permanent employment as  a
 9    county   corrections   officer   for  a  participating  local
10    governmental agency.
11        f.  Minimum   basic   training   requirements   which   a
12    probationary  court  security  officer  must   satisfactorily
13    complete  before being eligible for permanent employment as a
14    court security officer for a participating local governmental
15    agency.    The   Board   shall   establish   those   training
16    requirements   which   it  considers  appropriate  for  court
17    security officers and shall certify schools to  conduct  that
18    training.
19        A  person hired to serve as a court security officer must
20    obtain from the Board a certificate (i) attesting to  his  or
21    her  successful  completion  of  the  training  course;  (ii)
22    attesting to his or her satisfactory completion of a training
23    program  of similar content and number of hours that has been
24    found acceptable by the Board under the  provisions  of  this
25    Act; or (iii) attesting to the Board's determination that the
26    training  course  is  unnecessary  because  of  the  person's
27    extensive prior law enforcement experience.
28        Individuals   who   currently  serve  as  court  security
29    officers shall be deemed qualified to continue  to  serve  in
30    that  capacity  so  long as they are certified as provided by
31    this Act within 24 months  of  the  effective  date  of  this
32    amendatory Act of 1996.  Failure to be so certified, absent a
33    waiver from the Board, shall cause the officer to forfeit his
34    or her position.
 
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 1        All  individuals  hired  as court security officers on or
 2    after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996 shall
 3    be certified within 12 months of  the  date  of  their  hire,
 4    unless a waiver has been obtained by the Board, or they shall
 5    forfeit their positions.
 6        The  Sheriff's  Merit  Commission,  if one exists, or the
 7    Sheriff's Office if there is no Sheriff's  Merit  Commission,
 8    shall  maintain  a  list  of  all  individuals who have filed
 9    applications to become court security officers and  who  meet
10    the  eligibility  requirements  established  under  this Act.
11    Either the  Sheriff's  Merit  Commission,  or  the  Sheriff's
12    Office   if  no  Sheriff's  Merit  Commission  exists,  shall
13    establish a schedule of reasonable intervals for verification
14    of the applicants'  qualifications  under  this  Act  and  as
15    established by the Board.
16    (Source:  P.A.  88-661,  eff.  1-1-95;  89-685,  eff. 6-1-97;
17    89-707, eff. 6-1-97.)

18        Section 15.  The Illinois  Vehicle  Code  is  amended  by
19    changing Section 12-603.1 as follows:

20        (625 ILCS 5/12-603.1) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-603.1)
21        Sec.  12-603.1.   Driver  and  passenger  required to use
22    safety belts, exceptions and penalty.
23        (a)  Each driver and front  seat  passenger  of  a  motor
24    vehicle  operated  on a street or highway in this State shall
25    wear a properly  adjusted  and  fastened  seat  safety  belt;
26    except  that,  a  child  less  than  6  years of age shall be
27    protected  as  required  pursuant  to  the  Child   Passenger
28    Protection  Act.  Each  driver  under the age of 18 years and
29    each of the driver's passengers under the age of 18 years  of
30    a motor vehicle operated on a street or highway in this State
31    shall wear a properly adjusted and fastened seat safety belt.
32    Each  driver  of a motor vehicle transporting a child 6 years
 
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 1    of age or more, but less than 16 years of age, in  the  front
 2    seat  of  the  motor  vehicle  shall  secure  the  child in a
 3    properly adjusted and fastened seat safety belt.
 4        (b)  Paragraph  (a)  shall  not  apply  to  any  of   the
 5    following:
 6             1.  A  driver  or  passenger frequently stopping and
 7        leaving the  vehicle  or  delivering  property  from  the
 8        vehicle,  if  the speed of the vehicle between stops does
 9        not exceed 15 miles per hour.
10             2.  A  driver  or  passenger  possessing  a  written
11        statement from a physician that such  person  is  unable,
12        for  medical  or  physical reasons, to wear a seat safety
13        belt.
14             3.  A driver or  passenger  possessing  an  official
15        certificate   or   license   endorsement  issued  by  the
16        appropriate agency in another state or country indicating
17        that the driver is unable for medical, physical, or other
18        valid reasons to wear a seat safety belt.
19             4.  A driver operating a motor vehicle in reverse.
20             5.  A motor vehicle with a model year prior to 1965.
21             6.  A motorcycle or motor driven cycle.
22             7.  A motorized pedalcycle.
23             8.  A motor vehicle which  is  not  required  to  be
24        equipped with seat safety belts under federal law.
25             9.  A  motor  vehicle  operated  by  a  rural letter
26        carrier  of  the  United  States  postal  service   while
27        performing duties as a rural letter carrier.
28        (c)  Failure  to  wear a seat safety belt in violation of
29    this Section shall not be considered evidence of  negligence,
30    shall  not  limit  the liability of an insurer, and shall not
31    diminish  any  recovery  for  damages  arising  out  of   the
32    ownership, maintenance, or operation of a motor vehicle.
33        (d)  Before January 1, 2000, any person who is stopped by
34    any  law  enforcement  officer  solely  on  the  basis  of  a
 
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 1    violation  of  this  Section  shall  receive only a verbal or
 2    written warning from the law  enforcement  officer  informing
 3    the person that he or she has violated this Section.
 4        A  violation of this Section shall be a petty offense and
 5    subject to a fine not to exceed $25.
 6        From January 1, 2000 until 4 years  after  the  effective
 7    date  of  this  amendatory  Act of the 91st General Assembly,
 8    whenever a State or local law enforcement  officer  issues  a
 9    uniform  traffic citation or warning citation he or she shall
10    record on the face of the citation whether the violator is:
11             (1)  Caucasian;
12             (2)  African-American;
13             (3)  Hispanic; or
14             (4)  any other race or ethnicity.
15        After January 1, 2000, all citations produced for use  by
16    State  or  local  law  enforcement  officers shall contain on
17    their face a list of these racial and ethnic groups.
18        (e)  Beginning 4 years after the effective date  of  this
19    amendatory  Act  of  the  91st  General  Assembly,  no  motor
20    vehicle,  or  driver  or  passenger of such vehicle, shall be
21    stopped or searched by any law enforcement officer solely  on
22    the  basis  of  a  violation  or  suspected violation of this
23    Section.
24        (f)  To ensure uniform  enforcement  of  this  Code,  the
25    Secretary of State shall conduct a study to determine whether
26    there  is  a  pattern of discrimination in the enforcement of
27    this Code by  the  Department  of  State  Police  or  by  law
28    enforcement  officers for a municipality with a population of
29    greater than 2,000,000. The Secretary of State shall  compile
30    the information on race or ethnicity from all uniform traffic
31    citations  and  warning citations issued by the Department of
32    State  Police  and  by  law  enforcement   officers   for   a
33    municipality with a population of greater than 2,000,000. The
34    Secretary  of  State  shall submit an annual report of his or
 
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 1    her findings to the Governor and the General Assembly by  May
 2    1 of the years 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
 3    (Source: P.A. 90-369, eff. 1-1-98.)

 4        Section  20.  The  Code  of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is
 5    amended by changing Section 108-1 as follows:

 6        (725 ILCS 5/108-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 108-1)
 7        Sec. 108-1. Search without warrant.  (1)  When  a  lawful
 8    arrest  is effected a peace officer may reasonably search the
 9    person arrested and the area within such  person's  immediate
10    presence for the purpose of:
11        (a)  Protecting the officer from attack; or
12        (b)  Preventing the person from escaping; or
13        (c)  Discovering the fruits of the crime; or
14        (d)  Discovering  any  instruments,  articles,  or things
15    which may have been used in the commission of, or  which  may
16    constitute evidence of, an offense.
17        (2)  Beginning  4  years after the effective date of this
18    amendatory  Act  of  the  91st  General  Assembly,  no  motor
19    vehicle, or driver or passenger of  such  vehicle,  shall  be
20    stopped  or searched by any law enforcement officer solely on
21    the basis of a violation or suspected  violation  of  Section
22    12-603.1 of The Illinois Vehicle Code.
23    (Source: P.A. 85-291.)

24        Section  95.   No  acceleration or delay.  Where this Act
25    makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
26    text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for  example,  a
27    Section  represented  by  multiple versions), the use of that
28    text does not accelerate or delay the taking  effect  of  (i)
29    the  changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from
30    any other Public Act.
 
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 1        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 2    becoming law.

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