IL SB3932

Illinois State Police must provide information to local law enforcement agencies about best practices for death scene investigations and identify available publications and training opportunities for law enforcement and coroners.

Coroners or medical examiners must notify the Illinois State Police within 24 hours of discovering unidentified human remains and must notify the Federal Bureau of Investigation within 72 hours if remains remain unidentified.

Law enforcement and medical examiner/coroner officials must obtain fingerprints, dental X-rays, skeletal X-rays, photographs, tissue samples for DNA analysis, and other identification materials before any disposal or actions that materially affect unidentified remains.

Cremation of unidentified human remains is prohibited, and fingerprints and DNA tissue samples must be submitted to appropriate state and federal databases within specified timeframes (fingerprints to Illinois State Police and DNA samples to National Missing and Unidentified Persons System within 30 days).

Unidentified person records must be created in the National Crime Information Center within 5 days of discovery and in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System within 30 days, with records maintained indefinitely until identification or official cancellation.