705 ILCS 405/3-4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 705 - COURTS|705 ILCS 405/ - Juvenile Court Act of 1987.|Article III - Minors Requiring Authoritative Intervention

 (from Ch. 37, par. 803-4)Sec. 3-4.     Taking into limited custody.(a) A law enforcement officer may, without a warrant, take into limited  custody a minor who the law enforcement officer reasonably determines is (i)  absent from home without consent of the minor's parent, guardian or custodian,  or (ii) beyond the control of his or her parent, guardian or custodian, in  circumstances which constitute a substantial or immediate danger to the minor's  physical safety.(b) A law enforcement officer who takes a minor into limited custody shall  (i) immediately inform the minor of the reasons for such limited custody,  and (ii) make a prompt, reasonable effort to inform the minor's parents,  guardian, or custodian that the minor has been taken into limited custody  and where the minor is being kept.(c) If the minor consents, the law enforcement officer shall make a  reasonable effort to transport, arrange for the transportation of or  otherwise release the minor to the parent, guardian or custodian.  Upon  release of a minor who is believed to need or would benefit from medical,  psychological, psychiatric or social services, the law enforcement officer  may inform the minor and the person to whom the minor is released of the  nature and location of appropriate services and shall, if requested, assist  in establishing contact between the family and an agency or association  providing such services.(d) If the law enforcement officer is unable by all reasonable efforts  to contact a parent, custodian, relative or other responsible person; or  if the person contacted lives an unreasonable distance away; or if the  minor refuses to be taken to his or her home or other appropriate residence; or  if the officer is otherwise unable despite all reasonable efforts to make  arrangements for the safe release of the minor taken into limited custody,  the law enforcement officer shall take or make reasonable arrangements for  transporting the minor to an agency or association providing crisis  intervention services, or, where appropriate, to a mental health or  developmental disabilities facility for screening for voluntary or involuntary  admission under Section 3-500 et seq. of the Illinois Mental Health and  Developmental Disabilities Code; provided that where no crisis intervention  services exist, the minor may be transported for services to court service  departments or probation departments under the court's administration.(e) No minor shall be involuntarily subject to limited custody for more  than 6 hours from the time of the minor's initial contact with the law  enforcement officer.(f) No minor taken into limited custody shall be placed in a jail, municipal  lockup, detention center or secure correctional facility.(g) The taking of a minor into limited custody under this Section is  not an arrest nor does it constitute a police record; and the records of  law enforcement officers concerning all minors taken into limited custody  under this Section shall be maintained separate from the records of arrest  and may not be inspected by or disclosed to the public except by order of  the court.  However, such records may be disclosed to the agency or association  providing interim crisis intervention services for the minor.(h) Any law enforcement agency, juvenile officer or other law enforcement  officer acting reasonably and in good faith in the care of a minor in limited  custody shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability resulting from  such custody.    (Source: P.A. 87-1154.)