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20 ILCS 3930/ Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act.

(20 ILCS 3930/1) (from Ch. 38, par. 210‑1)     Sec. 1. Short Title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act". (Source: P.A. 82‑1039.)

(20 ILCS 3930/2) (from Ch. 38, par. 210‑2)     Sec. 2. Purpose of Act. The purpose of this Act is to coordinate the use of information in the criminal justice system; to promulgate effective criminal justice information policy; to encourage the improvement of criminal justice agency procedures and practices with respect to information; to provide new information technologies; to permit the evaluation of information practices and programs; to stimulate research and development of new methods and uses of criminal justice information for the improvement of the criminal justice system and the reduction of crime; and to protect the integrity of criminal history record information, while protecting the citizen's right to privacy. (Source: P.A. 82‑1039.)

(20 ILCS 3930/3) (from Ch. 38, par. 210‑3)     Sec. 3. Definitions. Whenever used in this Act, and for the purposes of this Act unless the context clearly denotes otherwise:     (a) The term "criminal justice system" includes all activities by public agencies pertaining to the prevention or reduction of crime or enforcement of the criminal law, and particularly, but without limitation, the prevention, detection, and investigation of crime; the apprehension of offenders; the protection of victims and witnesses; the administration of juvenile justice; the prosecution and defense of criminal cases; the trial, conviction, and sentencing of offenders; as well as the correction and rehabilitation of offenders, which includes imprisonment, probation, parole and treatment.     (b) The term "Authority" means the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority created by this Act.     (c) The term "criminal justice information" means any and every type of information that is collected, transmitted, or maintained by the criminal justice system.     (d) The term "criminal history record information" means data identifiable to an individual and consisting of descriptions or notations of arrests, detentions, indictments, informations, pre‑trial proceedings, trials, or other formal events in the criminal justice system or descriptions or notations of criminal charges (including criminal violations of local municipal ordinances) and the nature of any disposition arising therefrom, including sentencing, court or correctional supervision, rehabilitation, and release. The term does not apply to statistical records and reports in which individuals are not identified and from which their identities are not ascertainable, or to information that is for criminal investigative or intelligence purposes.     (e) The term "unit of general local government" means any county, municipality or other general purpose political subdivision of this State. (Source: P.A. 85‑653.)

    (20 ILCS 3930/4)(from Ch. 38, par. 210‑4)
    Sec. 4. Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority; creation, membership, and meetings. There is created an Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority consisting of 23 members. The membership of the Authority shall consist of the Illinois Attorney General, or his or her designee, the Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, the Director of the Illinois Department of State Police, the Sheriff of Cook County, the State's Attorney of Cook County, the clerk of the circuit court of Cook County, the President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, the Director of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, the Executive Director of the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board, the State Appellate Defender, the Public Defender of Cook County, and the following additional members, each of whom shall be appointed by the Governor: a circuit court clerk, a sheriff, a State's Attorney of a county other than Cook, a Public Defender of a county other than Cook, a chief of police, and 6 members of the general public.
    The Governor from time to time shall designate a Chairman of the Authority from the membership. All members of the Authority appointed by the Governor shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor for a term not to exceed 4 years. The initial appointed members of the Authority shall serve from January, 1983 until the third Monday in January, 1987 or until their successors are appointed.
    The Authority shall meet at least quarterly, and all meetings of the Authority shall be called by the Chairman.
(Source: P.A. 96‑1343, eff. 1‑1‑11.)

(20 ILCS 3930/5) (from Ch. 38, par. 210‑5)     Sec. 5. No Compensation ‑ Expenses. Members of the Authority, other than the Chairman, shall serve without compensation. All members shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with their duties. (Source: P.A. 82‑1039.)

(20 ILCS 3930/6) (from Ch. 38, par. 210‑6)     Sec. 6. Executive Director. The Governor shall appoint an Executive Director of the Authority with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Executive Director shall employ, in accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Personnel Code, such administrative, professional, clerical, and other personnel as may be required. The Executive Director may organize the staff of the Authority as he may deem appropriate. (Source: P.A. 82‑1039.)

    (20 ILCS 3930/7)(from Ch. 38, par. 210‑7)
    Sec. 7. Powers and Duties. The Authority shall have the following powers, duties and responsibilities:
        (a) To develop and operate comprehensive information

systems for the improvement and coordination of all aspects of law enforcement, prosecution and corrections;

(b) To define, develop, evaluate and correlate State

and local programs and projects associated with the improvement of law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice;

(c) To act as a central repository and clearing

house for federal, state and local research studies, plans, projects, proposals and other information relating to all aspects of criminal justice system improvement and to encourage educational programs for citizen support of State and local efforts to make such improvements;

(d) To undertake research studies to aid in

accomplishing its purposes;

(e) To monitor the operation of existing criminal

justice information systems in order to protect the constitutional rights and privacy of individuals about whom criminal history record information has been collected;

(f) To provide an effective administrative forum for

the protection of the rights of individuals concerning criminal history record information;

(g) To issue regulations, guidelines and procedures

which ensure the privacy and security of criminal history record information consistent with State and federal laws;

(h) To act as the sole administrative appeal body in

the State of Illinois to conduct hearings and make final determinations concerning individual challenges to the completeness and accuracy of criminal history record information;

(i) To act as the sole, official, criminal justice

body in the State of Illinois to conduct annual and periodic audits of the procedures, policies, and practices of the State central repositories for criminal history record information to verify compliance with federal and state laws and regulations governing such information;

(j) To advise the Authority's Statistical Analysis

Center;

(k) To apply for, receive, establish priorities for,

allocate, disburse and spend grants of funds that are made available by and received on or after January 1, 1983 from private sources or from the United States pursuant to the federal Crime Control Act of 1973, as amended, and similar federal legislation, and to enter into agreements with the United States government to further the purposes of this Act, or as may be required as a condition of obtaining federal funds;

(l) To receive, expend and account for such funds of

the State of Illinois as may be made available to further the purposes of this Act;

(m) To enter into contracts and to cooperate with

units of general local government or combinations of such units, State agencies, and criminal justice system agencies of other states for the purpose of carrying out the duties of the Authority imposed by this Act or by the federal Crime Control Act of 1973, as amended;

(n) To enter into contracts and cooperate with units

of general local government outside of Illinois, other states' agencies, and private organizations outside of Illinois to provide computer software or design that has been developed for the Illinois criminal justice system, or to participate in the cooperative development or design of new software or systems to be used by the Illinois criminal justice system. Revenues received as a result of such arrangements shall be deposited in the Criminal Justice Information Systems Trust Fund.

(o) To establish general policies concerning

criminal justice information systems and to promulgate such rules, regulations and procedures as are necessary to the operation of the Authority and to the uniform consideration of appeals and audits;

(p) To advise and to make recommendations to the

Governor and the General Assembly on policies relating to criminal justice information systems;

(q) To direct all other agencies under the

jurisdiction of the Governor to provide whatever assistance and information the Authority may lawfully require to carry out its functions;

(r) To exercise any other powers that are reasonable

and necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the Authority under this Act and to comply with the requirements of applicable federal law or regulation;

(s) To exercise the rights, powers and duties which

have been vested in the Authority by the "Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act", enacted by the 85th General Assembly, as hereafter amended;

(t) To exercise the rights, powers and duties which

have been vested in the Authority by the Illinois Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act; and

(u) To exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested

in the Authority by the Illinois Public Safety Agency Network Act.

The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report with the Speaker, the Minority Leader and the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the President, the Minority Leader and the Secretary of the Senate and the Legislative Research Unit, as required by Section 3.1 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to the General Assembly", approved February 25, 1874, as amended, and filing such additional copies with the State Government Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly as is required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act. (Source: P.A. 94‑896, eff. 7‑1‑06.)

(20 ILCS 3930/7.1)     Sec. 7.1. Sexual assault nurse examiner pilot program.     (a) Legislative findings and intent. The General Assembly finds that the compassionate treatment of sexual assault victims in hospital emergency rooms is necessary to help alleviate the suffering of sexual assault victims. The General Assembly also finds that the effective collection and presentation of forensic evidence in sexual assault cases is necessary to increase the success rate of prosecutions for sex crimes in Illinois.     The General Assembly intends to create a pilot program to establish 4 sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) projects in the State of Illinois. For each project, specially trained sexual assault nurse examiners or specially trained sexual assault physician examiners will provide health assessments and collect forensic evidence from sexual assault victims in the emergency room. The sexual assault nurse examiners or sexual assault physician examiners will also testify to victims' injuries during criminal prosecutions.     (b) Definitions. In this Section:         (1) "Sexual assault nurse examiner" means a

registered nurse who has completed a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) training program that meets the Forensic Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Education Guidelines established by the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

(2) "Sexual assault physician examiner" means a

physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches who has completed a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) training program that meets the Forensic Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Education Guidelines established by the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

(3) "Hospital" means a facility licensed by the

Department of Public Health under the Hospital Licensing Act or that meets both the definition of hospital and the exemption provisions of that Act.

(4) "Hospital emergency services" means the health

care delivered to outpatients within or under the care and supervision of personnel working in a designated emergency department or emergency room of a hospital.

(c) SANE pilot program. The Authority shall, subject to appropriation, establish a SANE pilot program to operate 4 pilot projects in Illinois. The projects shall be established in the emergency rooms of hospitals in 4 counties geographically distributed throughout the State. Hospitals located throughout the State may apply to the Authority to participate in the program. Each project must provide the following services:         (1) Compassionate health assessment and effective

forensic evidence collection for sexual assault victims by a trained sexual assault nurse examiner or sexual assault physician examiner in a hospital emergency room as part of the provision of hospital emergency services.

(2) Presentation of testimony regarding victims'

injuries during criminal prosecutions for sex offenses.

(d) Each of the SANE projects established under this pilot program must, at a minimum, meet the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Standards of Practice established by the International Association of Forensic Nurses.     (e) Each of the 4 pilot projects established by the Authority under this Section shall be in existence for a minimum of 3 years.     (f) Report. No later than 2 years after the establishment of pilot projects under this Section, the Authority must report to the General Assembly on the efficacy of SANE programs.     (g) Rules. The Authority shall adopt rules to implement this Section. (Source: P.A. 91‑529, eff. 1‑1‑00.)

(20 ILCS 3930/7.2)     Sec. 7.2. Custodial Interview Pilot Program.     (a) Legislative findings and intent. The General Assembly finds that technology has made it possible to electronically record custodial interviews of suspects during first degree murder investigations. This technology will protect law enforcement agencies against claims of abuse and coercion by suspects while providing a memorialized account of interviews at police stations. The technology will also provide a better means for courts to review confessions of suspects with direct evidence of demeanor, tone, manner, and content of statements. The General Assembly intends to create a Custodial Interview Pilot Program to establish 4 pilot programs at police stations in the State of Illinois. For each program, video and audio experts shall install equipment and train participating law enforcement agencies to electronically record custodial interviews at their respective police stations. Participating law enforcement agencies shall choose how to use the equipment in cooperation with the local State's Attorney's office. The participating law enforcement agencies may choose to electronically record interviews of suspects for offenses other than first degree murder if they adopt local protocols in cooperation with the local State's Attorney's office.     (b) Definitions. In this Section:         (1) "Electronically record" means to memorialize by

video and audio electronic equipment.

(2) "Custodial interviews" means interviews of

suspects during first degree murder investigations or other investigations established by local protocol by law enforcement authorities that take place at the police station.

(c) Custodial Interview Pilot Program. The Authority shall, subject to appropriation, establish a Custodial Interview Pilot Program to operate 4 custodial interview pilot programs. The programs shall be established in a police station in the County of Cook and in 3 other police stations geographically distributed throughout the State. Each participating law enforcement agency must:         (1) Promulgate procedures for recording custodial

interviews of suspects during first degree murder investigations by video and audio means.

(2) Promulgate procedures for maintaining and storing

video and audio recordings.

(d) Each of the 4 pilot programs established by the Authority shall be in existence for a minimum of 2 years after its establishment under this Act.     (e) Report. No later than one year after the establishment of pilot programs under this Section, the Authority must report to the General Assembly on the efficacy of the Custodial Interview Pilot Program.     (f) The Authority shall adopt rules in cooperation with the Illinois Department of State Police to implement this Section. (Source: P.A. 93‑605, eff. 11‑19‑03.)

(20 ILCS 3930/7.5)     Sec. 7.5. Grants for electronic recording equipment.     (a) The Authority, from appropriations made to it for that purpose, shall make grants to local law enforcement agencies for the purpose of purchasing equipment for electronic recording of interrogations.     (b) The Authority shall promulgate rules to implement this Section. (Source: P.A. 93‑206, eff. 7‑18‑03; 93‑517, eff. 8‑6‑03.)

    (20 ILCS 3930/7.6)
    Sec. 7.6. Capital Crimes Database.
    (a) Subject to appropriation, a Capital Crimes Database shall be created within the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA).
    (b) The ICJIA shall collect and retain in the Capital Crimes Database all information on the prosecution, pendency, and disposition of capital and capital eligible cases in Illinois. The Capital Crimes Database shall serve as a repository for all of the foregoing collected information.
    (c) The ICJIA shall develop administrative rules to provide for the coordination and collection of information in the Capital Crimes Database.
    (d) Agencies required to provide information on capital cases to the ICJIA, as the ICJIA may request, for the Capital Crimes Database shall include, but not be limited to:
        (1) Office of the Attorney General.
        (2) Illinois Department of Corrections.
        (3) Illinois State Police.
        (4) All county State's Attorneys.
        (5) All county public defenders.
        (6) Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate

Prosecutor.

(7) Office of the State Appellate Defender.     (e) Agencies requested to provide information on capital cases to the ICJIA for the Capital Crimes Database shall include, but not be limited to:         (1) Administrative Office of Illinois Courts.         (2) All county circuit court clerks.     (f) The ICJIA shall develop procedures and protocols for

the submission of information relating to capital and capital eligible cases to the Database in conjunction with the agencies submitting information.

(Source: P.A. 95‑688, eff. 10‑23‑07.)

(20 ILCS 3930/8) (from Ch. 38, par. 210‑8)     Sec. 8. Criminal Justice Agency. The Authority shall be deemed a criminal justice agency under all federal and State laws and regulations, and as such shall have access to any information available to criminal justice agencies. (Source: P.A. 82‑1039.)

    (20 ILCS 3930/9)(from Ch. 38, par. 210‑9)
    Sec. 9. Criminal Justice Information Systems Trust Fund. The special fund in the State Treasury known as the Criminal Justice Information Systems Trust Fund shall be funded in part from users' fees collected from criminal justice agencies that are the users of information systems developed and operated for them by the Authority. The users' fees shall be based on pro rated shares according to the share of operating cost that is attributed to each agency, as determined by the Authority. Prior to the effective date of the Illinois Public Safety Agency Network Act, the General Assembly shall make an appropriation from the Criminal Justice Information Systems Trust Fund for the operating expenses of the Authority incident to providing the services described in this Section. On and after the effective date of the Illinois Public Safety Agency Network Act, distributions from the Fund shall be made as provided in that Act.
(Source: P.A. 94‑896, eff. 7‑1‑06.)

(20 ILCS 3930/9.1)     Sec. 9.1. Criminal Justice Information Projects Fund. The Criminal Justice Information Projects Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury. Grants and other moneys obtained by the Authority from governmental entities (other than the federal government), private sources, and not‑for‑profit organizations for use in investigating criminal justice issues or undertaking other criminal justice information projects shall be deposited into the Fund. Moneys in the Fund may be used by the Authority, subject to appropriation, for undertaking such projects and for the operating and other expenses of the Authority incidental to those projects. (Source: P.A. 88‑538.)

(20 ILCS 3930/9.2)     Sec. 9.2. The Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State treasury. Deposits to this Fund shall consist of receipts from the federal government under the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant program and interest earned from the investment of moneys in the Fund. Disbursements from the Fund shall be made, subject to appropriation, by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority in accordance with the guidelines established by the federal government for the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant Program. Specifically, the Fund may be used to provide financial support to State agencies (including the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority) and units of local government and to pay the Authority's administrative costs associated with the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant Program. (Source: P.A. 90‑587, eff. 7‑1‑98.)

(20 ILCS 3930/10) (from Ch. 38, par. 210‑10)     Sec. 10. Supersedure and Transfer. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority created by this Act supersedes and shall assume, exercise and administer all rights, powers, duties and responsibilities vested in the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission by "An Act creating an Illinois Law Enforcement Commission and defining its powers and duties", approved September 20, 1977, as amended, except:     (a) those rights, powers, duties and responsibilities created by that Act with respect to the operation or administration of juvenile justice programs pursuant to applicable State or federal laws or regulations; and     (b) the right, power, duty and responsibility to allocate, disburse and account for grants of funds actually received by the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission prior to January 1, 1983 from the United States pursuant to the federal Crime Control Act of 1973, as amended, or pursuant to other similar federal legislation.     The transfer to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority of the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission as provided in this Section shall not be deemed to abolish or diminish the exercise, by the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission or as otherwise provided by law, of those rights, powers, duties and responsibilities described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section which are not transferred to the Authority pursuant to this Section.     Personnel previously assigned to programs transferred pursuant to this Section from the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission to the Authority, other than the Executive Director of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission, are hereby transferred to the Authority. Effective April 1, 1983, personnel of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission previously assigned to the function and responsibility described in paragraph (b) above of this Section ‑‑ except such of those personnel who, immediately prior to April 1, 1983, were either performing such function and responsibility for the primary benefit of, or who were also assigned to the operation or administration of the juvenile justice programs referred to in paragraph (a) above of this Section ‑‑ shall be transferred to the Authority. The rights of the employees or the State under the "Personnel Code" or under any other contract or plan, however, shall not be affected thereby.     All books, records, papers, documents, real or personal property, unexpended appropriations and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities transferred by this Section shall be delivered and transferred to the Authority. Effective April 1, 1983, all books, records, papers, documents, real or personal property, unexpended appropriations, undisbursed grant moneys, if any, and pending business pertaining to the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities described in paragraph (b) of this Section ‑‑ except such of said items as pertain primarily to the juvenile justice programs referred to in paragraph (a) above of this Section ‑‑ shall be transferred to the Authority.     All rights, powers, duties and responsibilities transferred pursuant to this Act to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority shall be vested in and shall be exercised by that Authority subject to the provisions of this Act. Each act done in the exercise of such rights, powers and duties shall be exercised by that Authority subject to the provisions of this Act. Each act done in the exercise of such rights, powers and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission or divisions, officers or employees thereof.Contact Us | About Us | Terms | Privacy