IL SB0024

Law enforcement agencies must adopt policies for missing person investigations and cannot establish waiting periods before accepting reports; reports cannot be refused based on the person's age, length of time missing, lack of foul play indicators, jurisdictional issues, or the reporter's relationship to the missing person

Missing person information must be entered immediately into the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS), and if a person remains missing for 60 days, a report must be generated in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) with fingerprints, dental records, and DNA samples submitted within 90 days

The definition of "high-risk missing person" threshold changes from 30 days to 60 days missing, and includes persons who have gone missing from nursing home facilities, veterans with service-related conditions, and those under age 21

Fingerprints from unidentified human remains must be submitted within 7 days to local, state, and federal databases; dental examination by a forensic odontologist required within 45 days; DNA samples submitted within 90 days of recovery

Missing person and unidentified person cases cannot be closed until the person is located or identified, and exhaustion of leads or anticipated life span termination cannot be used as reasons for closure