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 1        AN ACT concerning sex offenses.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Criminal Identification Act is amended by
 5    changing Section 5 as follows:

 6        (20 ILCS 2630/5) (from Ch. 38, par. 206-5)
 7        (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 90-590)
 8        Sec. 5. Arrest reports; expungement.
 9        (a)  All  policing  bodies of this State shall furnish to
10    the Department, daily, in the form and detail the  Department
11    requires,  fingerprints  and  descriptions of all persons who
12    are arrested on charges of violating  any  penal  statute  of
13    this  State  for offenses that are classified as felonies and
14    Class A or B misdemeanors and of all  minors  who  have  been
15    arrested or taken into custody before their 17th birthday for
16    an offense that if committed by an adult would constitute the
17    offense  of  unlawful  use of weapons under Article 24 of the
18    Criminal Code of  1961,  a  forcible  felony  as  defined  in
19    Section  2-8  of  the  Criminal Code of 1961, or a Class 2 or
20    greater felony under the Cannabis Control Act,  the  Illinois
21    Controlled  Substances  Act,  or  Chapter  4  of the Illinois
22    Vehicle Code. Moving or nonmoving  traffic  violations  under
23    the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code shall not be reported except for
24    violations of Chapter 4, Section 11-204.1, or Section  11-501
25    of that Code.  In addition, conservation offenses, as defined
26    in  the  Supreme  Court  Rule  501(c), that are classified as
27    Class B misdemeanors shall not be reported.
28        Whenever an adult or minor prosecuted as  an  adult,  not
29    having  previously  been convicted of any criminal offense or
30    municipal ordinance violation, charged with a violation of  a
31    municipal  ordinance or a felony or misdemeanor, is acquitted
 
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 1    or released without being convicted, whether the acquittal or
 2    release occurred before, on, or after the effective  date  of
 3    this  amendatory  Act of 1991, the Chief Judge of the circuit
 4    wherein the charge was brought, any  judge  of  that  circuit
 5    designated  by  the  Chief Judge, or in counties of less than
 6    3,000,000 inhabitants,  the  presiding  trial  judge  at  the
 7    defendant's trial may upon verified petition of the defendant
 8    order the record of arrest expunged from the official records
 9    of  the arresting authority and the Department and order that
10    the records of the clerk of the circuit court be sealed until
11    further order of the court upon good cause shown and the name
12    of the defendant obliterated on the official  index  required
13    to be kept by the circuit court clerk under Section 16 of the
14    Clerks  of  Courts  Act,  but  the order shall not affect any
15    index issued by the circuit court clerk before the  entry  of
16    the  order.   The  Department may charge the petitioner a fee
17    equivalent to the cost of processing any order to expunge  or
18    seal  the  records,  and  the fee shall be deposited into the
19    State Police Services Fund.  The records  of  those  arrests,
20    however,  that result in a disposition of supervision for any
21    offense shall  not  be  expunged  from  the  records  of  the
22    arresting  authority  or  the Department nor impounded by the
23    court  until  2  years  after  discharge  and  dismissal   of
24    supervision.   Those  records  that result from a supervision
25    for a violation of Section 3-707, 3-708, 3-710,  5-401.3,  or
26    11-503 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision of
27    a  local  ordinance,  or  for  a violation of Section 12-3.2,
28    12-15 or 16A-3 of the Criminal Code  of  1961,  or  probation
29    under  Section 10 of the Cannabis Control Act, Section 410 of
30    the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, Section  12-4.3(b)(1)
31    and  (2)  of  the  Criminal Code of 1961 (as those provisions
32    existed before their deletion by Public Act 89-313),  Section
33    10-102  of  the Illinois Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependency
34    Act when the judgment of conviction has been vacated, Section
 
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 1    40-10 of the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse  and  Dependency
 2    Act  when  the  judgment  of  conviction has been vacated, or
 3    Section 10 of the Steroid Control Act shall not  be  expunged
 4    from  the records of the arresting authority nor impounded by
 5    the court until 5 years after  termination  of  probation  or
 6    supervision. Those records that result from a supervision for
 7    a violation of Section 11-501 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or
 8    a  similar  provision  of  a  local  ordinance,  shall not be
 9    expunged. All records set out above may  be  ordered  by  the
10    court  to  be  expunged  from  the  records  of the arresting
11    authority and impounded by the court after 5 years, but shall
12    not be expunged by the Department, but shall, on court  order
13    be  sealed  by  the Department and may be disseminated by the
14    Department only as  required  by  law  or  to  the  arresting
15    authority,  the  State's Attorney, and the court upon a later
16    arrest for the same or a similar offense or for  the  purpose
17    of sentencing for any subsequent felony.  Upon conviction for
18    any  offense, the Department of Corrections shall have access
19    to all sealed records of the Department  pertaining  to  that
20    individual.
21        (b)  Whenever  a  person has been convicted of a crime or
22    of the violation of a municipal ordinance, in the name  of  a
23    person  whose  identity  he has stolen or otherwise come into
24    possession of, the aggrieved person from  whom  the  identity
25    was  stolen or otherwise obtained without authorization, upon
26    learning  of  the  person  having  been  arrested  using  his
27    identity, may, upon verified petition to the chief  judge  of
28    the  circuit  wherein the arrest was made, have a court order
29    entered nunc pro tunc by  the  chief  judge  to  correct  the
30    arrest  record,  conviction  record, if any, and all official
31    records of the arresting  authority,  the  Department,  other
32    criminal  justice  agencies,  the  prosecutor,  and the trial
33    court concerning such arrest, if any, by  removing  his  name
34    from  all  such  records  in  connection  with the arrest and
 
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 1    conviction, if any, and by inserting in the records the  name
 2    of  the  offender,  if known or ascertainable, in lieu of the
 3    aggrieved's name.  The records of the clerk  of  the  circuit
 4    court  clerk shall be sealed until further order of the court
 5    upon good cause shown and the name of  the  aggrieved  person
 6    obliterated  on the official index required to be kept by the
 7    circuit court clerk under Section 16 of the Clerks of  Courts
 8    Act,  but  the order shall not affect any index issued by the
 9    circuit court clerk before the entry of the order. Nothing in
10    this Section shall limit the Department of  State  Police  or
11    other  criminal  justice agencies or prosecutors from listing
12    under an offender's name the false names he or she has  used.
13    For  purposes  of  this  Section,  convictions for moving and
14    nonmoving  traffic  violations  other  than  convictions  for
15    violations of Chapter 4, Section 11-204.1 or  Section  11-501
16    of  the Illinois Vehicle Code shall not be a bar to expunging
17    the record of arrest and court records  for  violation  of  a
18    misdemeanor or municipal ordinance.
19        (c)  Whenever  a  person  who  has  been  convicted of an
20    offense  is  granted  a  pardon   by   the   Governor   which
21    specifically  authorizes  expungement,  he may, upon verified
22    petition to the chief judge of the circuit where  the  person
23    had  been  convicted,  any judge of the circuit designated by
24    the Chief Judge,  or  in  counties  of  less  than  3,000,000
25    inhabitants,  the  presiding  trial  judge at the defendant's
26    trial, may have a court order entered expunging the record of
27    arrest from the official records of the  arresting  authority
28    and  order that the records of the clerk of the circuit court
29    and the Department be sealed until further order of the court
30    upon good cause shown or as otherwise  provided  herein,  and
31    the name of the defendant obliterated from the official index
32    requested to be kept by the circuit court clerk under Section
33    16  of the Clerks of Courts Act in connection with the arrest
34    and conviction for the offense for which he had been pardoned
 
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 1    but the order shall  not  affect  any  index  issued  by  the
 2    circuit  court  clerk  before  the  entry  of the order.  All
 3    records sealed by the Department may be disseminated  by  the
 4    Department  only  as  required  by  law  or  to the arresting
 5    authority, the State's States Attorney, and the court upon  a
 6    later  arrest  for  the  same  or  similar offense or for the
 7    purpose  of  sentencing  for  any  subsequent  felony.   Upon
 8    conviction for any  subsequent  offense,  the  Department  of
 9    Corrections  shall  have  access to all sealed records of the
10    Department pertaining to that individual.  Upon entry of  the
11    order  of  expungement,  the clerk of the circuit court shall
12    promptly mail a copy of the  order  to  the  person  who  was
13    pardoned.
14        (d)  Notice of the petition for subsections (a), (b), and
15    (c)  shall  be served upon the State's Attorney or prosecutor
16    charged  with  the  duty  of  prosecuting  the  offense,  the
17    Department of State Police,  the  arresting  agency  and  the
18    chief legal officer of the unit of local government affecting
19    the  arrest.   Unless the State's Attorney or prosecutor, the
20    Department of State Police,  the  arresting  agency  or  such
21    chief  legal  officer  objects to the petition within 30 days
22    from the date of the notice, the court shall enter  an  order
23    granting  or  denying  the  petition.  The clerk of the court
24    shall promptly mail a copy of the order to  the  person,  the
25    arresting  agency,  the  prosecutor,  the Department of State
26    Police and such other criminal justice  agencies  as  may  be
27    ordered by the judge.
28        (e)  Nothing herein shall prevent the Department of State
29    Police  from  maintaining  all  records  of any person who is
30    admitted to probation  upon  terms  and  conditions  and  who
31    fulfills those terms and conditions pursuant to Section 10 of
32    the  Cannabis  Control  Act,  Section  410  of  the  Illinois
33    Controlled  Substances  Act,  Section  12-4.3 of the Criminal
34    Code of 1961, Section 10-102 of the Illinois  Alcoholism  and
 
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 1    Other  Drug  Dependency  Act, Section 40-10 of the Alcoholism
 2    and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act, or Section 10 of the
 3    Steroid Control Act.
 4        (f)  No court order issued pursuant  to  the  expungement
 5    provisions of this Section shall become final for purposes of
 6    appeal  until  30  days  after  notice  is  received  by  the
 7    Department.   Any  court  order contrary to the provisions of
 8    this Section is void.
 9        The court shall not order the sealing or  expungement  of
10    the  arrest records and records of the circuit court clerk of
11    any person granted supervision for or convicted of any sexual
12    offense committed against a minor under 18 years of age.  For
13    the purposes  of  this  Section,  "sexual  offense  committed
14    against  a minor" includes but is not limited to the offenses
15    of indecent solicitation of a child or criminal sexual  abuse
16    when the victim of such offense is under 18 years of age.
17    (Source: P.A.  88-45;  88-77;  88-670,  eff. 12-2-94; 88-679,
18    eff. 7-1-95; 89-637, eff. 1-1-97; 89-689, eff. 12-31-96.)

19        (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 90-590)
20        Sec. 5. Arrest reports; expungement.
21        (a)  All policing bodies of this State shall  furnish  to
22    the  Department, daily, in the form and detail the Department
23    requires, fingerprints and descriptions of  all  persons  who
24    are  arrested  on  charges  of violating any penal statute of
25    this State for offenses that are classified as  felonies  and
26    Class  A or B misdemeanors and of all minors of the age of 10
27    and over who have been arrested for an offense which would be
28    a felony if committed by  an  adult,  and  may  forward  such
29    fingerprints and descriptions for minors arrested for Class A
30    or  B  misdemeanors.   Moving or nonmoving traffic violations
31    under the Illinois Vehicle Code shall not be reported  except
32    for  violations  of  Chapter  4, Section 11-204.1, or Section
33    11-501 of that Code.  In addition, conservation offenses,  as
34    defined in the Supreme Court Rule 501(c), that are classified
 
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 1    as Class B misdemeanors shall not be reported.
 2        Whenever  an  adult  or minor prosecuted as an adult, not
 3    having previously been convicted of any criminal  offense  or
 4    municipal  ordinance violation, charged with a violation of a
 5    municipal ordinance or a felony or misdemeanor, is  acquitted
 6    or released without being convicted, whether the acquittal or
 7    release  occurred  before, on, or after the effective date of
 8    this amendatory Act of 1991, the Chief Judge of  the  circuit
 9    wherein  the  charge  was  brought, any judge of that circuit
10    designated by the Chief Judge, or in counties  of  less  than
11    3,000,000  inhabitants,  the  presiding  trial  judge  at the
12    defendant's trial may upon verified petition of the defendant
13    order the record of arrest expunged from the official records
14    of the arresting authority and the Department and order  that
15    the records of the clerk of the circuit court be sealed until
16    further order of the court upon good cause shown and the name
17    of  the  defendant obliterated on the official index required
18    to be kept by the circuit court clerk under Section 16 of the
19    Clerks of Courts Act, but the  order  shall  not  affect  any
20    index  issued  by the circuit court clerk before the entry of
21    the order.  The Department may charge the  petitioner  a  fee
22    equivalent  to the cost of processing any order to expunge or
23    seal the records, and the fee shall  be  deposited  into  the
24    State  Police  Services  Fund.  The records of those arrests,
25    however, that result in a disposition of supervision for  any
26    offense  shall  not  be  expunged  from  the  records  of the
27    arresting authority or the Department nor  impounded  by  the
28    court   until  2  years  after  discharge  and  dismissal  of
29    supervision.  Those records that result  from  a  supervision
30    for  a  violation of Section 3-707, 3-708, 3-710, 5-401.3, or
31    11-503 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar provision of
32    a local ordinance, or for  a  violation  of  Section  12-3.2,
33    12-15  or  16A-3  of  the Criminal Code of 1961, or probation
34    under Section 10 of the Cannabis Control Act, Section 410  of
 
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 1    the  Illinois Controlled Substances Act, Section 12-4.3(b)(1)
 2    and (2) of the Criminal Code of  1961  (as  those  provisions
 3    existed  before their deletion by Public Act 89-313), Section
 4    10-102 of the Illinois Alcoholism and Other  Drug  Dependency
 5    Act when the judgment of conviction has been vacated, Section
 6    40-10  of  the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency
 7    Act when the judgment of  conviction  has  been  vacated,  or
 8    Section  10  of the Steroid Control Act shall not be expunged
 9    from the records of the arresting authority nor impounded  by
10    the  court  until  5  years after termination of probation or
11    supervision.  Those records that result  from  a  supervision
12    for  a  violation  of  Section 11-501 of the Illinois Vehicle
13    Code or a similar provision of a local ordinance,  shall  not
14    be expunged.  All records set out above may be ordered by the
15    court  to  be  expunged  from  the  records  of the arresting
16    authority and impounded by the court after 5 years, but shall
17    not be expunged by the Department, but shall, on court  order
18    be  sealed  by  the Department and may be disseminated by the
19    Department only as  required  by  law  or  to  the  arresting
20    authority,  the  State's Attorney, and the court upon a later
21    arrest for the same or a similar offense or for  the  purpose
22    of sentencing for any subsequent felony.  Upon conviction for
23    any  offense, the Department of Corrections shall have access
24    to all sealed records of the Department  pertaining  to  that
25    individual.
26        (a-5)  Those  records  maintained  by  the Department for
27    persons arrested  prior  to  their  17th  birthday  shall  be
28    expunged  as  provided in Section 5-915 of the Juvenile Court
29    Act of 1987.
30        (b)  Whenever a person has been convicted of a  crime  or
31    of  the  violation of a municipal ordinance, in the name of a
32    person whose identity he has stolen or  otherwise  come  into
33    possession  of,  the  aggrieved person from whom the identity
34    was stolen or otherwise obtained without authorization,  upon
 
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 1    learning  of  the  person  having  been  arrested  using  his
 2    identity,  may,  upon verified petition to the chief judge of
 3    the circuit wherein the arrest was made, have a  court  order
 4    entered  nunc  pro  tunc  by  the  chief judge to correct the
 5    arrest record, conviction record, if any,  and  all  official
 6    records  of  the  arresting  authority, the Department, other
 7    criminal justice agencies,  the  prosecutor,  and  the  trial
 8    court  concerning  such  arrest, if any, by removing his name
 9    from all such records  in  connection  with  the  arrest  and
10    conviction,  if any, and by inserting in the records the name
11    of the offender, if known or ascertainable, in  lieu  of  the
12    has  name.   The  records  of  the clerk of the circuit court
13    clerk shall be sealed until further order of the  court  upon
14    good  cause  shown  and  the  name  of  the  aggrieved person
15    obliterated on the official index required to be kept by  the
16    circuit  court clerk under Section 16 of the Clerks of Courts
17    Act, but the order shall not affect any index issued  by  the
18    circuit court clerk before the entry of the order. Nothing in
19    this  Section  shall  limit the Department of State Police or
20    other criminal justice agencies or prosecutors  from  listing
21    under  an offender's name the false names he or she has used.
22    For purposes of this  Section,  convictions  for  moving  and
23    nonmoving  traffic  violations  other  than  convictions  for
24    violations  of  Chapter 4, Section 11-204.1 or Section 11-501
25    of the Illinois Vehicle Code shall not be a bar to  expunging
26    the  record  of  arrest  and court records for violation of a
27    misdemeanor or municipal ordinance.
28        (c)  Whenever a person  who  has  been  convicted  of  an
29    offense   is   granted   a   pardon  by  the  Governor  which
30    specifically authorizes expungement, he  may,  upon  verified
31    petition  to  the chief judge of the circuit where the person
32    had been convicted, any judge of the  circuit  designated  by
33    the  Chief  Judge,  or  in  counties  of  less than 3,000,000
34    inhabitants, the presiding trial  judge  at  the  defendant's
 
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 1    trial, may have a court order entered expunging the record of
 2    arrest  from  the official records of the arresting authority
 3    and order that the records of the clerk of the circuit  court
 4    and the Department be sealed until further order of the court
 5    upon  good  cause  shown or as otherwise provided herein, and
 6    the name of the defendant obliterated from the official index
 7    requested to be kept by the circuit court clerk under Section
 8    16 of the Clerks of Courts Act in connection with the  arrest
 9    and conviction for the offense for which he had been pardoned
10    but  the  order  shall  not  affect  any  index issued by the
11    circuit court clerk before  the  entry  of  the  order.   All
12    records  sealed  by the Department may be disseminated by the
13    Department only as  required  by  law  or  to  the  arresting
14    authority,  the State's States Attorney, and the court upon a
15    later arrest for the same  or  similar  offense  or  for  the
16    purpose  of  sentencing  for  any  subsequent  felony.   Upon
17    conviction  for  any  subsequent  offense,  the Department of
18    Corrections shall have access to all sealed  records  of  the
19    Department  pertaining to that individual.  Upon entry of the
20    order of expungement, the clerk of the  circuit  court  shall
21    promptly  mail  a  copy  of  the  order to the person who was
22    pardoned.
23        (c-5)  Whenever a person has been convicted  of  criminal
24    sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory
25    criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, or
26    aggravated  criminal sexual abuse, the victim of that offense
27    may request that the State's Attorney of the county in  which
28    the  conviction  occurred  file  a verified petition with the
29    presiding trial judge at the  defendant's  trial  to  have  a
30    court  order  entered to seal the records of the clerk of the
31    circuit court in connection with the proceedings of the trial
32    court concerning that offense.  However, the records  of  the
33    arresting  authority  and  the  Department  of  State  Police
34    concerning  the offense shall not be sealed.  The court, upon
 
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 1    good cause shown, shall make the records of the clerk of  the
 2    circuit court in connection with the proceedings of the trial
 3    court concerning the offense available for public inspection.
 4    
 5        (d)  Notice of the petition for subsections (a), (b), and
 6    (c)  shall  be served upon the State's Attorney or prosecutor
 7    charged  with  the  duty  of  prosecuting  the  offense,  the
 8    Department of State Police,  the  arresting  agency  and  the
 9    chief legal officer of the unit of local government affecting
10    the  arrest.   Unless the State's Attorney or prosecutor, the
11    Department of State Police,  the  arresting  agency  or  such
12    chief  legal  officer  objects to the petition within 30 days
13    from the date of the notice, the court shall enter  an  order
14    granting  or  denying  the  petition.  The clerk of the court
15    shall promptly mail a copy of the order to  the  person,  the
16    arresting  agency,  the  prosecutor,  the Department of State
17    Police and such other criminal justice  agencies  as  may  be
18    ordered by the judge.
19        (e)  Nothing herein shall prevent the Department of State
20    Police  from  maintaining  all  records  of any person who is
21    admitted to probation  upon  terms  and  conditions  and  who
22    fulfills those terms and conditions pursuant to Section 10 of
23    the  Cannabis  Control  Act,  Section  410  of  the  Illinois
24    Controlled  Substances  Act,  Section  12-4.3 of the Criminal
25    Code of 1961, Section 10-102 of the Illinois  Alcoholism  and
26    Other  Drug  Dependency  Act, Section 40-10 of the Alcoholism
27    and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act, or Section 10 of the
28    Steroid Control Act.
29        (f)  No court order issued pursuant  to  the  expungement
30    provisions of this Section shall become final for purposes of
31    appeal  until  30  days  after  notice  is  received  by  the
32    Department.   Any  court  order contrary to the provisions of
33    this Section is void.
34        (g)  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c-5)  of
 
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 1    this  Section,  the  court  shall  not  order  the sealing or
 2    expungement of the arrest records and records of the  circuit
 3    court   clerk  of  any  person  granted  supervision  for  or
 4    convicted of any sexual offense  committed  against  a  minor
 5    under  18  years  of  age.  For the purposes of this Section,
 6    "sexual offense committed against a minor"  includes  but  is
 7    not  limited  to  the  offenses of indecent solicitation of a
 8    child or criminal  sexual  abuse  when  the  victim  of  such
 9    offense is under 18 years of age.
10    (Source: P.A.  89-637,  eff.  1-1-97;  89-689, eff. 12-31-96;
11    90-590, eff. 1-1-00; revised 10-31-98.)

12        Section 95.  No acceleration or delay.   Where  this  Act
13    makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
14    text  that  is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
15    Section represented by multiple versions), the  use  of  that
16    text  does  not  accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i)
17    the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived  from
18    any other Public Act.

19        Section  99.   Effective  date.   This  Act  takes effect
20    January 1, 2000.

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