Public Act 104-0070
 
SB0106 EnrolledLRB104 07553 SPS 17597 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act 
is amended by changing Section 7 as follows:
 
    (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;
        (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 State or 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;
        (t) (Blank);
        (u) To exercise the rights, powers, and duties vested 
    in the Authority by the Illinois Public Safety Agency 
    Network Act;
        (v) To provide technical assistance in the form of 
    training to local governmental entities within Illinois 
    requesting such assistance for the purposes of procuring 
    grants for gang intervention and gang prevention programs 
    or other criminal justice programs from the United States 
    Department of Justice; 
        (w) To conduct strategic planning and provide 
    technical assistance to implement comprehensive trauma 
    recovery services for violent crime victims in underserved 
    communities with high levels of violent crime, with the 
    goal of providing a safe, community-based, culturally 
    competent environment in which to access services 
    necessary to facilitate recovery from the effects of 
    chronic and repeat exposure to trauma. Services may 
    include, but are not limited to, behavioral health 
    treatment, financial recovery, family support and 
    relocation assistance, and support in navigating the legal 
    system; and
        (x) To coordinate statewide violence prevention 
    efforts and assist in the implementation of trauma 
    recovery centers and analyze trauma recovery services. The 
    Authority shall develop, publish, and facilitate the 
    implementation of a 4-year statewide violence prevention 
    plan, which shall incorporate public health, public 
    safety, victim services, and trauma recovery centers and 
    services; .
        (y) To use the services of, and enter into necessary 
    agreements having a term of up to 2 years with, outside 
    entities for the purpose of scoring and evaluating grant 
    applications;
        (z) To make grants to community-based organizations, 
    local government agencies, non-profit organizations, or 
    other eligible entities for criminal justice and public 
    safety programs, including, but not limited to, violence 
    prevention and intervention, reentry after incarceration, 
    youth development and mentorship, economic development, 
    and civil legal aid; and
        (aa) To adopt rules necessary to carry out the 
    Authority's responsibilities under this Act.
    The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly 
shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report as required 
by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act, 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. 103-798, eff. 1-1-25.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.