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91_SB0728eng SB728 Engrossed LRB9100337RCks 1 AN ACT to amend the Sex Offender and Child Murderer 2 Community Notification Law by changing Section 115. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Sex Offender and Child Murderer Community 6 Notification Law is amended by changing Section 115 as 7 follows: 8 (730 ILCS 152/115) 9 Sec. 115. Sex offender database. 10 (a) The Department of State Police shall establish and 11 maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for the purpose of 12 identifying sex offenders and making that information 13 available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of 14 this Law. The Database shall be created from the Law 15 Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) established under 16 Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act 17 of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its 18 LEADS database for persons registered as sex offenders under 19 the Sex Offender Registration Act and shall identify those 20 who are sex offenders and shall add all the information, 21 including photographs if available, on those sex offenders to 22 the Statewide Sex Offender Database. 23 (b) The Department of State Police must make the 24 information contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database 25 accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled 26 "Sex Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web 27 home page. The Department of State Police must update that 28 information as it deems necessary. 29 The Department of State Police may require that a person 30 who seeks access to the sex offender information submit 31 biographical information about himself or herself before SB728 Engrossed -2- LRB9100337RCks 1 permitting access to the sex offender information. The 2 Department of State Police may limit access to the sex 3 offender information to information about sex offenders who 4 reside within a specified geographic area in proximity to the 5 address of the person seeking that information. The 6 Department of State Police must promulgate rules in 7 accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to 8 implement this subsection (b) and those rules must include 9 procedures to insure that the information in the database is 10 accurate. 11 (Source: P.A. 89-428, eff. 6-1-96; 89-462, eff. 6-1-96; 12 90-193, eff. 7-24-97.)