Illinois Administrative Code › Title 20 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Part 800 - TRANSITIONAL HOUSING LICENSURE FOR SEX OFFENDERS ON PAROLE, PROBATION, OR SUPERVISION › Subpart A - LICENSING PROCEDURES › Section 800.40 - Transitional Housing, Treatment, and Referral Criteria

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Applicants for a Transitional Housing license must:
a) Have a facility that is located more than
				500 feet from any school, facility providing programs or services exclusively
				directed toward persons under 18 years of age, or playground.
b) Have a physical structure that provides
				for security measures, approved by the Department, 24 hours per day and seven
				days per week.
c) Limit residential
				occupancy of the facility to individuals over the age of 18.
d) Provide housing to sex offenders on
				parole, probation, or supervision for a period not to exceed 90 days, unless
				otherwise approved by the Director of the Department.
e) Provide a structured environment for
				congregate living that shall offer regular scheduled group sessions that are
				held a minimum of three days per week; provide the opportunity, either in-house
				or through a referral system to outside providers, for sex offender treatment
				with SOMB certified providers; and monitor the movement of all sex offenders on
				parole, probation, or supervision by maintaining a system of signing in and
				out. This record shall be available for review at all times by the Department,
				its parole agents, county probation officers, local police departments, and
				other supervision entities.
f)
				Establish a budget that specifies monthly operating expenses and demonstrates,
				within six months after licensure, sufficient income to meet these expenses
				plus emergency reserve by providing documentation of access to a minimum sum
				equivalent to the total of two months of operating expenses.
g) Notify immediately the supervising
				authority of any sex offender resident, whether or not on electronic detention
				or monitor, who has left the facility without properly signing out or has
				overstayed his or her leave time, who has been involved in criminal activity at
				the location, or who has contact with a law enforcement agency at the facility;
				and, in cases of emergency, this notifying contact shall include the
				requirement of first contacting the appropriate local law enforcement agency
				responsible for handling the emergency.
h) Submit treatment and counseling plans for
				each sex offender to the Director for review and approval.
i) Have a written linkage agreement or
				agreements with SOMB certified providers to provide the opportunity of sex
				offender treatment to be paid for by the sex offender residents.
j) Have a referral network to be utilized by
				sex offenders for necessary medical, mental health, substance abuse, and
				vocational or employment resources, and maintain any legally required
				confidentiality of identifying information.
k) Have the ability for all sex offenders to
				be monitored electronically and allow access, by technicians maintaining the
				electronic monitoring equipment, to the premises as necessary.