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92_SB2415 LRB9213594RCcd 1 AN ACT in relation to sex offenders. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Sex Offender and Child Murderer 5 Community Notification Law is amended by changing Section 115 6 as follows: 7 (730 ILCS 152/115) 8 Sec. 115. Sex offender database. 9 (a) The Department of State Police shall establish and 10 maintain a Statewide Sex Offender Database for the purpose of 11 identifying sex offenders and making that information 12 available to the persons specified in Sections 120 and 125 of 13 this Law. The Database shall be created from the Law 14 Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) established under 15 Section 6 of the Intergovernmental Missing Child Recovery Act 16 of 1984. The Department of State Police shall examine its 17 LEADS database for persons registered as sex offenders under 18 the Sex Offender Registration Act and shall identify those 19 who are sex offenders and shall add all the information, 20 including photographs if available, on those sex offenders to 21 the Statewide Sex Offender Database. 22 (a-5) The Department of State Police shall develop a 23 computer software program that would permit a law enforcement 24 officer who accesses the Statewide Sex Offender Database by 25 inputting the residence address of a sex offender to obtain a 26 map of a 5 mile radius from the sex offender's residence. The 27 map shall include every public and private school located 28 within that 5 mile radius. The Department of State Police 29 shall distribute the software program to every law 30 enforcement agency of this State. 31 (b) The Department of State Police must make the -2- LRB9213594RCcd 1 information contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database 2 accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled 3 "Sex Offender Information" on the Department's World Wide Web 4 home page. The Department of State Police must update that 5 information as it deems necessary. 6 The Department of State Police may require that a person 7 who seeks access to the sex offender information submit 8 biographical information about himself or herself before 9 permitting access to the sex offender information. The 10 Department of State Police may limit access to the sex 11 offender information to information about sex offenders who 12 reside within a specified geographic area in proximity to the 13 address of the person seeking that information. The 14 Department of State Police must promulgate rules in 15 accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to 16 implement this subsection (b) and those rules must include 17 procedures to ensure that the information in the database is 18 accurate. 19 (Source: P.A. 90-193, eff. 7-24-97; 91-224, eff. 7-1-00.) 20 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 21 becoming law.