Topic:
DNA from registered sex offenders and some arrestees
(Mendoza, D-Chicago; Raoul, D-Chicago) requires all registered sex offenders to provide a DNA sample regardless of their conviction or where they were convicted. It also requires a DNA sample from arrestees of serious, violent crimes and sex crime after a grand-jury indictment or a section 109-3 hearing in which a judge finds probable cause to believe the arrestee committed one of the triggering offenses. Effective January 1, 2012.