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91_HB2604

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  transfer  the  power  and  functions  of the
 2    Department of Law Enforcement of the Office of the State Fire
 3    Marshal to the Department of State Police.

 4        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 5    represented in the General Assembly:

 6        Section  5.  The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
 7    amended by changing Section 55a and adding Section  55a-9  as
 8    follows:

 9        (20 ILCS 2605/55a) (from Ch. 127, par. 55a)
10        (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 90-590)
11        Sec. 55a. Powers and duties.
12        (A)  The  Department  of  State  Police  shall  have  the
13    following  powers and duties, and those set forth in Sections
14    55a-1 through 55c:
15        1.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which  have
16    been  vested  in the Department of Public Safety by the State
17    Police Act.
18        2.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which  have
19    been  vested  in the Department of Public Safety by the State
20    Police Radio Act.
21        3.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which  have
22    been  vested  in  the  Department  of  Public  Safety  by the
23    Criminal Identification Act.
24        4.  To (a) investigate the origins, activities, personnel
25    and incidents of crime and the ways and means to redress  the
26    victims   of  crimes,  and  study  the  impact,  if  any,  of
27    legislation relative to the effusion  of  crime  and  growing
28    crime  rates,  and  enforce  the  criminal laws of this State
29    related  thereto,  (b)  enforce  all  laws   regulating   the
30    production,  sale, prescribing, manufacturing, administering,
31    transporting, having in possession,  dispensing,  delivering,
 
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 1    distributing,  or  use of controlled substances and cannabis,
 2    (c)  employ   skilled   experts,   scientists,   technicians,
 3    investigators or otherwise specially qualified persons to aid
 4    in  preventing or detecting crime, apprehending criminals, or
 5    preparing  and  presenting  evidence  of  violations  of  the
 6    criminal laws of the State, (d) cooperate with the police  of
 7    cities,  villages and incorporated towns, and with the police
 8    officers of any county, in enforcing the laws  of  the  State
 9    and  in making arrests and recovering property, (e) apprehend
10    and deliver up any person charged in this State or any  other
11    State  of  the  United  States with treason, felony, or other
12    crime, who has fled from justice and is found in this  State,
13    and  (f) conduct such other investigations as may be provided
14    by law. Persons exercising these powers within the Department
15    are conservators of the peace and as such have all the powers
16    possessed by policemen in cities and  sheriffs,  except  that
17    they  may  exercise  such  powers  anywhere  in  the State in
18    cooperation  with  and  after  contact  with  the  local  law
19    enforcement  officials.  Such  persons  may  use   false   or
20    fictitious  names  in  the  performance of their duties under
21    this paragraph, upon approval of the Director, and shall  not
22    be  subject  to  prosecution under the criminal laws for such
23    use.
24        5.  To: (a) be a  central  repository  and  custodian  of
25    criminal   statistics   for  the  State,  (b)  be  a  central
26    repository  for  criminal  history  record  information,  (c)
27    procure and file for record such information as is  necessary
28    and  helpful  to  plan  programs  of  crime  prevention,  law
29    enforcement  and  criminal  justice, (d) procure and file for
30    record such copies of fingerprints, as  may  be  required  by
31    law,  (e) establish general and field crime laboratories, (f)
32    register and file for  record  such  information  as  may  be
33    required   by   law  for  the  issuance  of  firearm  owner's
34    identification  cards,  (g)   employ   polygraph   operators,
 
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 1    laboratory  technicians and other specially qualified persons
 2    to aid in the identification of criminal  activity,  and  (h)
 3    undertake such other identification, information, laboratory,
 4    statistical  or registration activities as may be required by
 5    law.
 6        6.  To  (a)  acquire  and  operate  one  or  more   radio
 7    broadcasting  stations  in  the  State  to be used for police
 8    purposes, (b) operate a statewide communications  network  to
 9    gather   and  disseminate  information  for  law  enforcement
10    agencies, (c)  operate  an  electronic  data  processing  and
11    computer  center  for  the  storage  and  retrieval  of  data
12    pertaining to criminal activity, and (d) undertake such other
13    communication activities as may be required by law.
14        7.  To  provide, as may be required by law, assistance to
15    local  law  enforcement  agencies   through   (a)   training,
16    management  and consultant services for local law enforcement
17    agencies, and (b) the pursuit of research and the publication
18    of studies pertaining to local law enforcement activities.
19        8.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which  have
20    been  vested  in  the  Department  of  State  Police  and the
21    Director of the Department of State Police  by  the  Narcotic
22    Control Division Abolition Act.
23        9.  To  exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
24    been vested  in  the  Department  of  Public  Safety  by  the
25    Illinois Vehicle Code.
26        10.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which have
27    been vested in the Department of Public Safety by the Firearm
28    Owners Identification Card Act.
29        11.  To   enforce  and  administer  such  other  laws  in
30    relation  to  law  enforcement  as  may  be  vested  in   the
31    Department.
32        12.  To  transfer  jurisdiction  of  any  realty title to
33    which is held by the State of Illinois under the  control  of
34    the   Department   to  any  other  department  of  the  State
 
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 1    government or to the State Employees Housing  Commission,  or
 2    to  acquire  or  accept  Federal  land,  when  such transfer,
 3    acquisition or acceptance is advantageous to the State and is
 4    approved in writing by the Governor.
 5        13.  With the written approval of the Governor, to  enter
 6    into  agreements  with other departments created by this Act,
 7    for the furlough of inmates of the penitentiary to such other
 8    departments  for  their  use  in  research   programs   being
 9    conducted by them.
10        For   the  purpose  of  participating  in  such  research
11    projects,  the  Department  may  extend  the  limits  of  any
12    inmate's place of confinement, when there is reasonable cause
13    to believe that the inmate will honor his  or  her  trust  by
14    authorizing the inmate, under prescribed conditions, to leave
15    the  confines of the place unaccompanied by a custodial agent
16    of the Department. The Department shall make rules  governing
17    the transfer of the inmate to the requesting other department
18    having  the approved research project, and the return of such
19    inmate to the unextended confines of the  penitentiary.  Such
20    transfer shall be made only with the consent of the inmate.
21        The  willful  failure  of a prisoner to remain within the
22    extended limits of his or her confinement or to return within
23    the time or manner prescribed to  the  place  of  confinement
24    designated by the Department in granting such extension shall
25    be  deemed  an  escape  from  custody  of  the Department and
26    punishable as provided in Section 3-6-4 of the  Unified  Code
27    of Corrections.
28        14.  To  provide  investigative services, with all of the
29    powers possessed by policemen in cities and sheriffs, in  and
30    around  all  race  tracks  subject to the Horse Racing Act of
31    1975.
32        15.  To expend such sums as the Director deems  necessary
33    from  Contractual Services appropriations for the Division of
34    Criminal Investigation for the purchase of evidence  and  for
 
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 1    the employment of persons to obtain evidence. Such sums shall
 2    be  advanced  to  agents authorized by the Director to expend
 3    funds, on vouchers signed by the Director.
 4        16.  To  assist  victims  and  witnesses  in  gang  crime
 5    prosecutions through the administration of funds appropriated
 6    from the Gang Violence Victims  and  Witnesses  Fund  to  the
 7    Department.    Such   funds  shall  be  appropriated  to  the
 8    Department and shall only  be  used  to  assist  victims  and
 9    witnesses  in gang crime prosecutions and such assistance may
10    include any of the following:
11             (a)  temporary living costs;
12             (b)  moving expenses;
13             (c)  closing costs on the sale of private residence;
14             (d)  first month's rent;
15             (e)  security deposits;
16             (f)  apartment location assistance;
17             (g)  other expenses which the  Department  considers
18        appropriate; and
19             (h)  compensation  for any loss of or injury to real
20        or personal property resulting from a  gang  crime  to  a
21        maximum of $5,000, subject to the following provisions:
22                  (1)  in  the  case  of  loss  of  property, the
23             amount of compensation  shall  be  measured  by  the
24             replacement  cost  of similar or like property which
25             has been incurred by and which is  substantiated  by
26             the property owner,
27                  (2)  in  the  case  of  injury to property, the
28             amount of compensation shall be measured by the cost
29             of repair incurred and which can be substantiated by
30             the property owner,
31                  (3)  compensation under  this  provision  is  a
32             secondary   source  of  compensation  and  shall  be
33             reduced by any amount the  property  owner  receives
34             from  any  other source as compensation for the loss
 
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 1             or injury, including, but not limited  to,  personal
 2             insurance coverage,
 3                  (4)  no  compensation  may  be  awarded  if the
 4             property owner was an offender or an  accomplice  of
 5             the offender, or if the award would unjustly benefit
 6             the  offender  or offenders, or an accomplice of the
 7             offender or offenders.
 8        No victim or witness may receive such assistance if he or
 9    she is not a part of or  fails  to  fully  cooperate  in  the
10    prosecution   of   gang  crime  members  by  law  enforcement
11    authorities.
12        The Department shall promulgate any rules  necessary  for
13    the implementation of this amendatory Act of 1985.
14        17.  To  conduct arson investigations.   Beginning on the
15    effective date of this amendatory Act  of  the  91st  General
16    Assembly,  the  Department  shall  exercise  the authority to
17    investigate arsons,  fires,  and  explosions  that  had  been
18    vested by law in the Office of State Fire Marshal.
19        18.  To  develop  a separate statewide statistical police
20    contact record keeping  system  for  the  study  of  juvenile
21    delinquency.  The records of this police contact system shall
22    be  limited  to  statistical  information.   No  individually
23    identifiable information shall be maintained  in  the  police
24    contact statistical record system.
25        19.  To develop a separate statewide central adjudicatory
26    and  dispositional  records system for persons under 19 years
27    of age who have been adjudicated  delinquent  minors  and  to
28    make  information available to local registered participating
29    police youth officers so that police youth officers  will  be
30    able to obtain rapid access to the juvenile's background from
31    other jurisdictions to the end that the police youth officers
32    can  make  appropriate dispositions which will best serve the
33    interest  of  the  child  and  the  community.    Information
34    maintained  in  the  adjudicatory  and  dispositional  record
 
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 1    system  shall  be  limited  to  the incidents or offenses for
 2    which the minor was adjudicated delinquent by a court, and  a
 3    copy  of  the  court's dispositional order.  All individually
 4    identifiable records in the  adjudicatory  and  dispositional
 5    records  system shall be destroyed when the person reaches 19
 6    years of age.
 7        20.  To develop rules which guarantee the confidentiality
 8    of   such   individually   identifiable   adjudicatory    and
 9    dispositional records except when used for the following:
10             (a)  by  authorized  juvenile court personnel or the
11        State's Attorney in connection with proceedings under the
12        Juvenile Court Act of 1987; or
13             (b)  inquiries   from   registered   police    youth
14        officers.
15        For the purposes of this Act "police youth officer" means
16    a  member  of  a  duly  organized  State, county or municipal
17    police force who is assigned by his  or  her  Superintendent,
18    Sheriff or chief of police, as the case may be, to specialize
19    in youth problems.
20        21.  To  develop  administrative rules and administrative
21    hearing procedures which allow a minor, his or her  attorney,
22    and  his  or  her  parents or guardian access to individually
23    identifiable adjudicatory and dispositional records  for  the
24    purpose  of  determining  or  challenging the accuracy of the
25    records. Final administrative decisions shall be  subject  to
26    the provisions of the Administrative Review Law.
27        22.  To  charge,  collect,  and  receive  fees  or moneys
28    equivalent to the  cost  of  providing  Department  of  State
29    Police   personnel,   equipment,   and   services   to  local
30    governmental agencies when explicitly requested  by  a  local
31    governmental  agency  and  pursuant  to  an intergovernmental
32    agreement as provided by this Section, other State  agencies,
33    and  federal  agencies,  including but not limited to fees or
34    moneys  equivalent  to  the  cost  of  providing  dispatching
 
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 1    services, radio and  radar  repair,  and  training  to  local
 2    governmental  agencies on such terms and conditions as in the
 3    judgment of the Director are in  the  best  interest  of  the
 4    State;  and to establish, charge, collect and receive fees or
 5    moneys based on the cost of providing responses  to  requests
 6    for  criminal history record information pursuant to positive
 7    identification and any Illinois or  federal  law  authorizing
 8    access  to  some  aspect of such information and to prescribe
 9    the form  and  manner  for  requesting  and  furnishing  such
10    information  to the requestor on such terms and conditions as
11    in the judgment of the Director are in the best  interest  of
12    the  State,  provided  fees  for  requesting  and  furnishing
13    criminal   history  record  information  may  be  waived  for
14    requests in the due administration of the criminal laws.  The
15    Department  may  also  charge,  collect  and  receive fees or
16    moneys equivalent to the cost of  providing  electronic  data
17    processing  lines  or  related  telecommunication services to
18    local  governments,  but  only  when  such  services  can  be
19    provided  by  the  Department  at  a  cost  less  than   that
20    experienced  by  said  local governments through other means.
21    All services provided by the Department  shall  be  conducted
22    pursuant    to    contracts    in    accordance    with   the
23    Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, and all  telecommunication
24    services  shall  be  provided  pursuant  to the provisions of
25    Section 67.18 of this Code.
26        All fees received by the Department of State Police under
27    this Act or the Illinois Uniform Conviction  Information  Act
28    shall be deposited in a special fund in the State Treasury to
29    be  known  as  the  State  Police  Services  Fund.  The money
30    deposited  in  the  State  Police  Services  Fund  shall   be
31    appropriated  to  the Department of State Police for expenses
32    of the Department of State Police.
33        Upon the completion of any audit  of  the  Department  of
34    State  Police  as  prescribed  by the Illinois State Auditing
 
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 1    Act, which audit  includes  an  audit  of  the  State  Police
 2    Services  Fund, the Department of State Police shall make the
 3    audit open to inspection by any interested person.
 4        23.  To exercise the powers and perform the duties  which
 5    have  been  vested  in  the Department of State Police by the
 6    Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984, and  to
 7    establish   reasonable  rules  and  regulations  necessitated
 8    thereby.
 9        24. (a)  To  establish  and  maintain  a  statewide   Law
10    Enforcement  Agencies  Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of
11    providing  electronic  access  by  authorized   entities   to
12    criminal justice data repositories and effecting an immediate
13    law  enforcement  response  to  reports  of  missing persons,
14    including lost, missing or runaway  minors.   The  Department
15    shall implement an automatic data exchange system to compile,
16    to  maintain  and  to make available to other law enforcement
17    agencies for immediate dissemination data  which  can  assist
18    appropriate   agencies  in  recovering  missing  persons  and
19    provide  access  by  authorized  entities  to  various   data
20    repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and
21    related  purposes.   To assist the Department in this effort,
22    funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
23        (b)  In exercising its duties under this subsection,  the
24    Department shall:
25             (1)  provide  a  uniform  reporting  format  for the
26        entry of pertinent information regarding the report of  a
27        missing person into LEADS;
28             (2)  develop   and  implement  a  policy  whereby  a
29        statewide or regional alert would be used  in  situations
30        relating  to  the disappearances of individuals, based on
31        criteria and in a format established by  the  Department.
32        Such  a  format shall include, but not be limited to, the
33        age of the missing person and the suspected  circumstance
34        of the disappearance;
 
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 1             (3)  notify   all   law  enforcement  agencies  that
 2        reports of missing persons shall be entered  as  soon  as
 3        the  minimum level of data specified by the Department is
 4        available to the reporting agency, and  that  no  waiting
 5        period for the entry of such data exists;
 6             (4)  compile  and retain information regarding lost,
 7        abducted, missing or runaway minors in  a  separate  data
 8        file, in a manner that allows such information to be used
 9        by  law enforcement and other agencies deemed appropriate
10        by  the  Director,  for  investigative  purposes.    Such
11        information shall include the disposition of all reported
12        lost, abducted, missing or runaway minor cases;
13             (5)  compile   and   maintain   an   historic   data
14        repository relating to lost, abducted, missing or runaway
15        minors  and other missing persons in order to develop and
16        improve techniques utilized by law  enforcement  agencies
17        when responding to reports of missing persons; and
18             (6)  create  a  quality  control  program  regarding
19        confirmation   of  missing  person  data,  timeliness  of
20        entries  of  missing  person  reports  into   LEADS   and
21        performance audits of all entering agencies.
22        25.  On   request   of   a   school   board  or  regional
23    superintendent of schools, to conduct an inquiry pursuant  to
24    Section 10-21.9 or 34-18.5 of the School Code to ascertain if
25    an  applicant  for  employment  in a school district has been
26    convicted of any criminal  or  drug  offenses  enumerated  in
27    Section   10-21.9   or  34-18.5  of  the  School  Code.   The
28    Department shall furnish such conviction information  to  the
29    President  of  the  school board of the school district which
30    has requested the information,  or  if  the  information  was
31    requested  by  the  regional  superintendent to that regional
32    superintendent.
33        26.  To promulgate rules and  regulations  necessary  for
34    the  administration and enforcement of its powers and duties,
 
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 1    wherever  granted  and  imposed,  pursuant  to  the  Illinois
 2    Administrative Procedure Act.
 3        27.  To  (a)   promulgate   rules   pertaining   to   the
 4    certification,  revocation  of  certification and training of
 5    law enforcement officers as electronic criminal  surveillance
 6    officers,  (b)  provide  training and technical assistance to
 7    State's  Attorneys  and  local   law   enforcement   agencies
 8    pertaining    to    the    interception   of   private   oral
 9    communications,  (c)  promulgate  rules  necessary  for   the
10    administration  of  Article  108B  of  the  Code  of Criminal
11    Procedure of 1963, including but not limited to standards for
12    recording   and   minimization   of    electronic    criminal
13    surveillance   intercepts,   documentation   required  to  be
14    maintained during an intercept,  procedures  in  relation  to
15    evidence   developed  by  an  intercept,  and  (d)  charge  a
16    reasonable fee to each  law  enforcement  agency  that  sends
17    officers   to   receive   training   as  electronic  criminal
18    surveillance officers.
19        28.  Upon the request of any private  organization  which
20    devotes  a  major  portion  of  its  time to the provision of
21    recreational, social, educational or child safety services to
22    children, to conduct, pursuant  to  positive  identification,
23    criminal   background   investigations   of   all   of   that
24    organization's   current   employees,   current   volunteers,
25    prospective  employees or prospective volunteers charged with
26    the care and custody of children during the provision of  the
27    organization's  services,  and  to  report  to the requesting
28    organization any record  of  convictions  maintained  in  the
29    Department's  files about such persons.  The Department shall
30    charge an application fee, based on  actual  costs,  for  the
31    dissemination  of  conviction  information  pursuant  to this
32    subsection.  The Department is empowered  to  establish  this
33    fee  and  shall  prescribe the form and manner for requesting
34    and  furnishing  conviction  information  pursuant  to   this
 
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 1    subsection. Information received by the organization from the
 2    Department concerning an individual shall be provided to such
 3    individual.    Any   such   information   obtained   by   the
 4    organization shall be confidential and may not be transmitted
 5    outside the organization and may not be transmitted to anyone
 6    within  the  organization except as needed for the purpose of
 7    evaluating the individual.  Only  information  and  standards
 8    which   bear  a  reasonable  and  rational  relation  to  the
 9    performance of child care shall be used by the  organization.
10    Any  employee  of  the  Department or any member, employee or
11    volunteer  of   the   organization   receiving   confidential
12    information  under  this subsection who gives or causes to be
13    given any confidential information  concerning  any  criminal
14    convictions  of  an  individual  shall be guilty of a Class A
15    misdemeanor unless release of such information is  authorized
16    by this subsection.
17        29.  Upon  the  request of the Department of Children and
18    Family Services, to investigate reports  of  child  abuse  or
19    neglect.
20        30.  To  obtain registration of a fictitious vital record
21    pursuant to Section 15.1 of the Vital Records Act.
22        31.  To collect and disseminate information  relating  to
23    "hate crimes" as defined under Section 12-7.1 of the Criminal
24    Code  of  1961  contingent  upon the availability of State or
25    Federal funds to revise  and  upgrade  the  Illinois  Uniform
26    Crime  Reporting  System.  All law enforcement agencies shall
27    report monthly to the Department of State  Police  concerning
28    such  offenses  in  such  form  and  in such manner as may be
29    prescribed by rules and regulations adopted by the Department
30    of State Police.  Such information shall be compiled  by  the
31    Department  and be disseminated upon request to any local law
32    enforcement  agency,  unit  of  local  government,  or  state
33    agency.  Dissemination of such information shall  be  subject
34    to all confidentiality requirements otherwise imposed by law.
 
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 1    The  Department  of  State  Police shall provide training for
 2    State Police officers  in  identifying,  responding  to,  and
 3    reporting  all  hate  crimes. The Illinois Local Governmental
 4    Law Enforcement  Officer's  Training  Standards  Board  shall
 5    develop  and  certify  a  course  of such training to be made
 6    available to local law enforcement officers.
 7        32.  Upon the request of a private carrier  company  that
 8    provides transportation under Section 28b of the Metropolitan
 9    Transit  Authority  Act,  to  ascertain if an applicant for a
10    driver position has been convicted of any  criminal  or  drug
11    offense enumerated in Section 28b of the Metropolitan Transit
12    Authority  Act.   The Department shall furnish the conviction
13    information to the private carrier company that requested the
14    information.
15        33.  To apply for grants or contracts,  receive,  expend,
16    allocate,  or  disburse  funds  and  moneys made available by
17    public or private entities, including, but  not  limited  to,
18    contracts,  bequests,  grants,  or  receiving  equipment from
19    corporations, foundations, or public or private  institutions
20    of  higher  learning.   All  funds received by the Department
21    from these sources shall be deposited  into  the  appropriate
22    fund  in  the  State  Treasury  to  be  appropriated  to  the
23    Department  for  purposes  as  indicated  by  the  grantor or
24    contractor or, in the case of funds or moneys  bequeathed  or
25    granted  for  no  specific purpose, for any purpose as deemed
26    appropriate   by   the   Director   in   administering    the
27    responsibilities of the Department.
28        34.  Upon  the  request of the Department of Children and
29    Family Services, the Department of State Police shall provide
30    properly designated employees of the Department  of  Children
31    and  Family Services with criminal history record information
32    as defined in the Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act
33    and  information   maintained   in   the   adjudicatory   and
34    dispositional  record  system as defined in subdivision (A)19
 
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 1    of this Section if the  Department  of  Children  and  Family
 2    Services  determines  the information is necessary to perform
 3    its duties under the Abused  and  Neglected  Child  Reporting
 4    Act,  the Child Care Act of 1969, and the Children and Family
 5    Services Act.  The request shall be in the  form  and  manner
 6    specified by the Department of State Police.
 7        35.  The   Illinois   Department  of  Public  Aid  is  an
 8    authorized entity under  this  Section  for  the  purpose  of
 9    obtaining  access  to  various  data  repositories  available
10    through  LEADS, to facilitate the location of individuals for
11    establishing  paternity,  and  establishing,  modifying,  and
12    enforcing child support obligations, pursuant to the Illinois
13    Public Aid Code and Title IV, Part D of the  Social  Security
14    Act.   The  Department shall enter into an agreement with the
15    Illinois Department  of  Public  Aid  consistent  with  these
16    purposes.
17        36.  Upon request of the Department of Human Services, to
18    conduct  an  assessment  and  evaluation  of sexually violent
19    persons  as  mandated  by  the   Sexually   Violent   Persons
20    Commitment Act, the Department shall furnish criminal history
21    information  maintained on the requested person.  The request
22    shall be in the form and manner specified by the Department.
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.   Beginning on the
16    effective date of this amendatory Act  of  the  91st  General
17    Assembly,  the  Department  shall  exercise  the authority to
18    investigate arsons,  fires,  and  explosions  that  had  been
19    vested in the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
20        18.  To  develop  a separate statewide statistical police
21    contact record keeping  system  for  the  study  of  juvenile
22    delinquency.  The records of this police contact system shall
23    be  limited  to  statistical  information.   No  individually
24    identifiable information shall be maintained  in  the  police
25    contact statistical record system.
26        19.  To  develop  a  separate  statewide central juvenile
27    records system for persons arrested prior to the  age  of  17
28    under  Section  5-401  of  the  Juvenile Court Act of 1987 or
29    adjudicated  delinquent  minors  and  to   make   information
30    available  to  local  law  enforcement  officers  so that law
31    enforcement officers will be able to obtain rapid  access  to
32    the  background  of the minor from other jurisdictions to the
33    end that the juvenile police officers  can  make  appropriate
34    decisions which will best serve the interest of the child and
 
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 1    the  community.    The  Department  shall  submit a quarterly
 2    report to the  General  Assembly  and  Governor  which  shall
 3    contain  the  number  of juvenile records that the Department
 4    has received in that quarter and, a  list,  by  category,  of
 5    offenses  that  minors  were  arrested for or convicted of by
 6    age, race and gender.
 7        20.  To develop rules which guarantee the confidentiality
 8    of such individually identifiable juvenile records except  to
 9    juvenile  authorities  who request information concerning the
10    minor and who certify in writing that  the  information  will
11    not  be disclosed to any other party except as provided under
12    law or  order  of  court.   For  purposes  of  this  Section,
13    "juvenile  authorities"  means:  (i)  a  judge of the circuit
14    court and members of the staff of the court designated by the
15    judge; (ii) parties to the  proceedings  under  the  Juvenile
16    Court  Act  of  1987  and  their  attorneys;  (iii) probation
17    officers and  court  appointed  advocates  for  the  juvenile
18    authorized by the judge hearing the case; (iv) any individual
19    or,  public  or of private agency having custody of the child
20    pursuant to court order; (v) any  individual  or,  public  or
21    private  agency providing education, medical or mental health
22    service to the child when the requested information is needed
23    to determine the appropriate service  or  treatment  for  the
24    minor;  (vi)  any  potential  placement  provider  when  such
25    release is authorized by the court for the limited purpose of
26    determining  the  appropriateness of the potential placement;
27    (vii) law enforcement officers and prosecutors; (viii)  adult
28    and juvenile prisoner review boards; (ix) authorized military
29    personnel;  (x)  individuals  authorized  by  court; (xi) the
30    Illinois General Assembly  or  any  committee  or  commission
31    thereof.
32        21.  To  develop  administrative rules and administrative
33    hearing procedures which allow a minor, his or her  attorney,
34    and  his  or  her  parents or guardian access to individually
 
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 1    identifiable juvenile records for the purpose of  determining
 2    or   challenging   the   accuracy   of  the  records.   Final
 3    administrative decisions shall be subject to  the  provisions
 4    of the Administrative Review Law.
 5        22.  To  charge,  collect,  and  receive  fees  or moneys
 6    equivalent to the  cost  of  providing  Department  of  State
 7    Police   personnel,   equipment,   and   services   to  local
 8    governmental agencies when explicitly requested  by  a  local
 9    governmental  agency  and  pursuant  to  an intergovernmental
10    agreement as provided by this Section, other State  agencies,
11    and  federal  agencies,  including but not limited to fees or
12    moneys  equivalent  to  the  cost  of  providing  dispatching
13    services, radio and  radar  repair,  and  training  to  local
14    governmental  agencies on such terms and conditions as in the
15    judgment of the Director are in  the  best  interest  of  the
16    State;  and to establish, charge, collect and receive fees or
17    moneys based on the cost of providing responses  to  requests
18    for  criminal history record information pursuant to positive
19    identification and any Illinois or  federal  law  authorizing
20    access  to  some  aspect of such information and to prescribe
21    the form  and  manner  for  requesting  and  furnishing  such
22    information  to the requestor on such terms and conditions as
23    in the judgment of the Director are in the best  interest  of
24    the  State,  provided  fees  for  requesting  and  furnishing
25    criminal   history  record  information  may  be  waived  for
26    requests in the due administration of the criminal laws.  The
27    Department  may  also  charge,  collect  and  receive fees or
28    moneys equivalent to the cost of  providing  electronic  data
29    processing  lines  or  related  telecommunication services to
30    local  governments,  but  only  when  such  services  can  be
31    provided  by  the  Department  at  a  cost  less  than   that
32    experienced  by  said  local governments through other means.
33    All services provided by the Department  shall  be  conducted
34    pursuant    to    contracts    in    accordance    with   the
 
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 1    Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, and all  telecommunication
 2    services  shall  be  provided  pursuant  to the provisions of
 3    Section 67.18 of this Code.
 4        All fees received by the Department of State Police under
 5    this Act or the Illinois Uniform Conviction  Information  Act
 6    shall be deposited in a special fund in the State Treasury to
 7    be  known  as  the  State  Police  Services  Fund.  The money
 8    deposited  in  the  State  Police  Services  Fund  shall   be
 9    appropriated  to  the Department of State Police for expenses
10    of the Department of State Police.
11        Upon the completion of any audit  of  the  Department  of
12    State  Police  as  prescribed  by the Illinois State Auditing
13    Act, which audit  includes  an  audit  of  the  State  Police
14    Services  Fund, the Department of State Police shall make the
15    audit open to inspection by any interested person.
16        23.  To exercise the powers and perform the duties  which
17    have  been  vested  in  the Department of State Police by the
18    Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984, and  to
19    establish   reasonable  rules  and  regulations  necessitated
20    thereby.
21        24. (a)  To  establish  and  maintain  a  statewide   Law
22    Enforcement  Agencies  Data System (LEADS) for the purpose of
23    providing  electronic  access  by  authorized   entities   to
24    criminal justice data repositories and effecting an immediate
25    law  enforcement  response  to  reports  of  missing persons,
26    including lost, missing or runaway  minors.   The  Department
27    shall implement an automatic data exchange system to compile,
28    to  maintain  and  to make available to other law enforcement
29    agencies for immediate dissemination data  which  can  assist
30    appropriate   agencies  in  recovering  missing  persons  and
31    provide  access  by  authorized  entities  to  various   data
32    repositories available through LEADS for criminal justice and
33    related  purposes.   To assist the Department in this effort,
34    funds may be appropriated from the LEADS Maintenance Fund.
 
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 1        (b)  In exercising its duties under this subsection,  the
 2    Department shall:
 3             (1)  provide  a  uniform  reporting  format  for the
 4        entry of pertinent information regarding the report of  a
 5        missing person into LEADS;
 6             (2)  develop   and  implement  a  policy  whereby  a
 7        statewide or regional alert would be used  in  situations
 8        relating  to  the disappearances of individuals, based on
 9        criteria and in a format established by  the  Department.
10        Such  a  format shall include, but not be limited to, the
11        age of the missing person and the suspected  circumstance
12        of the disappearance;
13             (3)  notify   all   law  enforcement  agencies  that
14        reports of missing persons shall be entered  as  soon  as
15        the  minimum level of data specified by the Department is
16        available to the reporting agency, and  that  no  waiting
17        period for the entry of such data exists;
18             (4)  compile  and retain information regarding lost,
19        abducted, missing or runaway minors in  a  separate  data
20        file, in a manner that allows such information to be used
21        by  law enforcement and other agencies deemed appropriate
22        by  the  Director,  for  investigative  purposes.    Such
23        information shall include the disposition of all reported
24        lost, abducted, missing or runaway minor cases;
25             (5)  compile   and   maintain   an   historic   data
26        repository relating to lost, abducted, missing or runaway
27        minors  and other missing persons in order to develop and
28        improve techniques utilized by law  enforcement  agencies
29        when responding to reports of missing persons; and
30             (6)  create  a  quality  control  program  regarding
31        confirmation   of  missing  person  data,  timeliness  of
32        entries  of  missing  person  reports  into   LEADS   and
33        performance audits of all entering agencies.
34        25.  On   request   of   a   school   board  or  regional
 
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 1    superintendent of schools, to conduct an inquiry pursuant  to
 2    Section 10-21.9 or 34-18.5 of the School Code to ascertain if
 3    an  applicant  for  employment  in a school district has been
 4    convicted of any criminal  or  drug  offenses  enumerated  in
 5    Section   10-21.9   or  34-18.5  of  the  School  Code.   The
 6    Department shall furnish such conviction information  to  the
 7    President  of  the  school board of the school district which
 8    has requested the information,  or  if  the  information  was
 9    requested  by  the  regional  superintendent to that regional
10    superintendent.
11        26.  To promulgate rules and  regulations  necessary  for
12    the  administration and enforcement of its powers and duties,
13    wherever  granted  and  imposed,  pursuant  to  the  Illinois
14    Administrative Procedure Act.
15        27.  To  (a)   promulgate   rules   pertaining   to   the
16    certification,  revocation  of  certification and training of
17    law enforcement officers as electronic criminal  surveillance
18    officers,  (b)  provide  training and technical assistance to
19    State's  Attorneys  and  local   law   enforcement   agencies
20    pertaining    to    the    interception   of   private   oral
21    communications,  (c)  promulgate  rules  necessary  for   the
22    administration  of  Article  108B  of  the  Code  of Criminal
23    Procedure of 1963, including but not limited to standards for
24    recording   and   minimization   of    electronic    criminal
25    surveillance   intercepts,   documentation   required  to  be
26    maintained during an intercept,  procedures  in  relation  to
27    evidence   developed  by  an  intercept,  and  (d)  charge  a
28    reasonable fee to each  law  enforcement  agency  that  sends
29    officers   to   receive   training   as  electronic  criminal
30    surveillance officers.
31        28.  Upon the request of any private  organization  which
32    devotes  a  major  portion  of  its  time to the provision of
33    recreational, social, educational or child safety services to
34    children, to conduct, pursuant  to  positive  identification,
 
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 1    criminal   background   investigations   of   all   of   that
 2    organization's   current   employees,   current   volunteers,
 3    prospective  employees or prospective volunteers charged with
 4    the care and custody of children during the provision of  the
 5    organization's  services,  and  to  report  to the requesting
 6    organization any record  of  convictions  maintained  in  the
 7    Department's  files about such persons.  The Department shall
 8    charge an application fee, based on  actual  costs,  for  the
 9    dissemination  of  conviction  information  pursuant  to this
10    subsection.  The Department is empowered  to  establish  this
11    fee  and  shall  prescribe the form and manner for requesting
12    and  furnishing  conviction  information  pursuant  to   this
13    subsection. Information received by the organization from the
14    Department concerning an individual shall be provided to such
15    individual.    Any   such   information   obtained   by   the
16    organization shall be confidential and may not be transmitted
17    outside the organization and may not be transmitted to anyone
18    within  the  organization except as needed for the purpose of
19    evaluating the individual.  Only  information  and  standards
20    which   bear  a  reasonable  and  rational  relation  to  the
21    performance of child care shall be used by the  organization.
22    Any  employee  of  the  Department or any member, employee or
23    volunteer  of   the   organization   receiving   confidential
24    information  under  this subsection who gives or causes to be
25    given any confidential information  concerning  any  criminal
26    convictions  of  an  individual  shall be guilty of a Class A
27    misdemeanor unless release of such information is  authorized
28    by this subsection.
29        29.  Upon  the  request of the Department of Children and
30    Family Services, to investigate reports  of  child  abuse  or
31    neglect.
32        30.  To  obtain registration of a fictitious vital record
33    pursuant to Section 15.1 of the Vital Records Act.
34        31.  To collect and disseminate information  relating  to
 
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 1    "hate crimes" as defined under Section 12-7.1 of the Criminal
 2    Code  of  1961  contingent  upon the availability of State or
 3    Federal funds to revise  and  upgrade  the  Illinois  Uniform
 4    Crime  Reporting  System.  All law enforcement agencies shall
 5    report monthly to the Department of State  Police  concerning
 6    such  offenses  in  such  form  and  in such manner as may be
 7    prescribed by rules and regulations adopted by the Department
 8    of State Police.  Such information shall be compiled  by  the
 9    Department  and be disseminated upon request to any local law
10    enforcement  agency,  unit  of  local  government,  or  state
11    agency.  Dissemination of such information shall  be  subject
12    to all confidentiality requirements otherwise imposed by law.
13    The  Department  of  State  Police shall provide training for
14    State Police officers  in  identifying,  responding  to,  and
15    reporting  all  hate  crimes.  The  Illinois  Law Enforcement
16    Training Standards Board shall develop and certify  a  course
17    of   such   training  to  be  made  available  to  local  law
18    enforcement officers.
19        32.  Upon the request of a private carrier  company  that
20    provides transportation under Section 28b of the Metropolitan
21    Transit  Authority  Act,  to  ascertain if an applicant for a
22    driver position has been convicted of any  criminal  or  drug
23    offense enumerated in Section 28b of the Metropolitan Transit
24    Authority  Act.   The Department shall furnish the conviction
25    information to the private carrier company that requested the
26    information.
27        33.  To apply for grants or contracts,  receive,  expend,
28    allocate,  or  disburse  funds  and  moneys made available by
29    public or private entities, including, but  not  limited  to,
30    contracts,  bequests,  grants,  or  receiving  equipment from
31    corporations, foundations, or public or private  institutions
32    of  higher  learning.   All  funds received by the Department
33    from these sources shall be deposited  into  the  appropriate
34    fund  in  the  State  Treasury  to  be  appropriated  to  the
 
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 1    Department  for  purposes  as  indicated  by  the  grantor or
 2    contractor or, in the case of funds or moneys  bequeathed  or
 3    granted  for  no  specific purpose, for any purpose as deemed
 4    appropriate   by   the   Director   in   administering    the
 5    responsibilities of the Department.
 6        34.  Upon  the  request of the Department of Children and
 7    Family Services, the Department of State Police shall provide
 8    properly designated employees of the Department  of  Children
 9    and  Family Services with criminal history record information
10    as defined in the Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act
11    and information maintained in the Statewide Central  Juvenile
12    record system as defined in subdivision (A)19 of this Section
13    if  the Department of Children and Family Services determines
14    the information is necessary to perform its duties under  the
15    Abused  and Neglected Child Reporting Act, the Child Care Act
16    of 1969, and the  Children  and  Family  Services  Act.   The
17    request  shall  be  in  the  form and manner specified by the
18    Department of State Police.
19        35.  The  Illinois  Department  of  Public  Aid   is   an
20    authorized  entity  under  this  Section  for  the purpose of
21    exchanging information, in the form and  manner  required  by
22    the  Department  of State Police, obtaining access to various
23    data repositories available through LEADS, to facilitate  the
24    location  of  individuals  for  establishing  paternity,  and
25    establishing,   modifying,   and   enforcing   child  support
26    obligations, pursuant to the Illinois  Public  Aid  Code  and
27    Title  IV,  Part  Section  D of the Social Security Act.  The
28    Department shall enter into an agreement  with  the  Illinois
29    Department of Public Aid consistent with these purposes.
30        36.  Upon request of the Department of Human Services, to
31    conduct  an  assessment  and  evaluation  of sexually violent
32    persons  as  mandated  by  the   Sexually   Violent   Persons
33    Commitment Act, the Department shall furnish criminal history
34    information  maintained on the requested person.  The request
 
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 1    shall be in the form and manner specified by the Department.
 2        (B)  The Department of State  Police  may  establish  and
 3    maintain,  within the Department of State Police, a Statewide
 4    Organized Criminal Gang Database (SWORD) for the  purpose  of
 5    tracking  organized  criminal  gangs  and  their memberships.
 6    Information in the database may include, but not  be  limited
 7    to,  the  name,  last  known  address,  birth  date, physical
 8    descriptions (such as  scars,  marks,  or  tattoos),  officer
 9    safety  information, organized gang affiliation, and entering
10    agency  identifier.    The   Department   may   develop,   in
11    consultation with the Criminal Justice Information Authority,
12    and  in  a  form  and manner prescribed by the Department, an
13    automated data exchange system to compile, to  maintain,  and
14    to   make   this   information  electronically  available  to
15    prosecutors and  to  other  law  enforcement  agencies.   The
16    information  may be used by authorized agencies to combat the
17    operations of organized criminal gangs statewide.
18        (C)  The Department of State  Police  may  ascertain  the
19    number  of  bilingual  police  officers  and  other personnel
20    needed to provide services in a language other  than  English
21    and  may  establish,  under  applicable  personnel  rules and
22    Department guidelines  or  through  a  collective  bargaining
23    agreement, a bilingual pay supplement program.
24    (Source:  P.A.  89-54,  eff.  6-30-95;  90-18,  eff.  7-1-97;
25    90-130,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-372,  eff.  7-1-98;  90-590,  eff.
26    1-1-00;  90-655,  eff. 7-30-98; 90-793, eff. 8-14-98; revised
27    1-21-99.)

28        (20 ILCS 2605/55a-9 new)
29        Sec. 55a-9.  Department of Law Enforcement of the  Office
30    of the State Fire Marshal; transfer of powers, personnel, and
31    property.
32        (a)  Beginning  on  the effective date of this amendatory
33    Act of the 91st General Assembly, all of the rights,  powers,
 
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 1    and duties vested by law in the Department of Law Enforcement
 2    of  the  Office  of  the State Fire Marshal or in any office,
 3    division, or bureau of that Office  are  transferred  to  the
 4    Department of State Police.
 5        (b)  Beginning  on  the effective date of this amendatory
 6    Act of the 91st General Assembly, personnel employed  by  the
 7    Department of Law Enforcement of the Office of the State Fire
 8    Marshal  or in any office, division, or bureau of that Office
 9    to perform functions that are transferred by this  amendatory
10    Act  of  the 91st General Assembly to the Department of State
11    Police are transferred to the Department of State Police.
12        (c)  All books, records, documents, property,  unexpended
13    appropriations,   and  pending  business  pertaining  to  the
14    rights, powers, and duties transferred by this amendatory Act
15    of the 91st General Assembly from the  Office  of  the  State
16    Fire  Marshal  to  the  Department  of  State Police shall be
17    delivered and transferred to the Department of State Police.

18        Section 10.  The State Fire Marshal  Act  is  amended  by
19    changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:

20        (20 ILCS 2905/1) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 1)
21        Sec.  1.  There is hereby created the Office of the State
22    Fire Marshal, hereinafter referred to as the Office.
23        The Office shall be under an executive director who shall
24    be appointed by the Governor with the advice and  consent  of
25    the Senate.
26        The  executive  director  of the Office shall be known as
27    the State Fire Marshal and shall receive $70,197 per year, or
28    an amount set by the Compensation Review Board, whichever  is
29    greater.
30        The  Office  of  the  State  Fire  Marshal  shall  have a
31    Division of Fire Prevention which shall assume the duties  of
32    the   Division   of   Fire   Prevention,  Department  of  Law
 
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 1    Enforcement,  and  a  Division  of  Personnel  Standards  and
 2    Education which shall assume  the  duties  of  Illinois  Fire
 3    Protection  Personnel  Standards  and  Education  Commission.
 4    Each Division shall be headed by a deputy State Fire Marshal.
 5    The  deputy State Fire Marshals shall be employed by the Fire
 6    Marshal,  subject  to  the  Personnel  Code,  and  shall   be
 7    responsible to the Fire Marshal.
 8    (Source: P.A. 89-703, eff. 1-17-97.)

 9        (20 ILCS 2905/2) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 2)
10        Sec.  2.   The Office shall have the following powers and
11    duties:
12        1.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which  have
13    been  vested  by law in the Department of State Police as the
14    successor of the Department  of  Public  Safety,  State  Fire
15    Marshal,  deputy State Fire Marshal, inspectors, officers and
16    employees  of  the  State  Fire  Marshal,   including   arson
17    investigation.    Beginning  on  the  effective  date of this
18    amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly,  the  Office  of
19    the  State  Fire  Marshal  may  not  conduct  arson, fire, or
20    explosion investigations.
21        2.  To keep a record, as may be required by law,  of  all
22    fires  occurring  in  the  State,  together  with  all facts,
23    statistics and circumstances, including the origin of fires.
24        3.  To exercise the rights, powers and duties which  have
25    been  vested in the Department of State Police by the "Boiler
26    and Pressure Vessel Safety Act", approved August 7, 1951,  as
27    amended.
28        4.  To  administer  the Illinois Fire Protection Training
29    Act.
30        5.  To aid in the establishment and  maintenance  of  the
31    training facilities and programs of the Illinois Fire Service
32    Institute.
33        6.  To   disburse  Federal  grants  for  fire  protection
 
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 1    purposes to units of local government.
 2        7.  To pay to or in behalf of the City of Chicago for the
 3    maintenance, expenses,  facilities  and  structures  directly
 4    incident  to  the  Chicago  Fire Department training program.
 5    Such payments  may  be  made  either  as  reimbursements  for
 6    expenditures  previously  made by the City, or as payments at
 7    the time the City has incurred an obligation  which  is  then
 8    due  and  payable  for  such  expenditures.  Payments for the
 9    Chicago Fire Department training program shall be  made  only
10    for  those  expenditures  which are not claimable by the City
11    under  "An  Act  relating  to  fire   protection   training",
12    certified November 9, 1971, as amended.
13        8.  To  administer  General  Revenue Fund grants to areas
14    not  located  in  a  fire  protection  district   or   in   a
15    municipality  which  provides  fire  protection  services, to
16    defray  the  organizational  expenses  of  forming   a   fire
17    protection district.
18        9.  In   cooperation   with  the  Illinois  Environmental
19    Protection  Agency,  to  administer  the   Illinois   Leaking
20    Underground Storage Tank program in accordance with Section 4
21    of this Act and Section 22.12 of the Environmental Protection
22    Act.
23        10.  To expend state and federal funds as appropriated by
24    the General Assembly.
25        11.  To   provide  technical  assistance,  to  areas  not
26    located in a fire protection district or  in  a  municipality
27    which  provides  fire  protection  service,  to  form  a fire
28    protection district, to join  an  existing  district,  or  to
29    establish   a   municipal   fire   department,  whichever  is
30    applicable.
31        12.  To exercise such other powers and duties as  may  be
32    vested in the Office by law.
33    (Source: P.A. 86-761.)
 
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 1        Section  95.   No  acceleration or delay.  Where this Act
 2    makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
 3    text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for  example,  a
 4    Section  represented  by  multiple versions), the use of that
 5    text does not accelerate or delay the taking  effect  of  (i)
 6    the  changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from
 7    any other Public Act.

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