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Annual Sex-Offender Fee Generates Little Money

A 2010 change in state law allowed law enforcement agencies that maintain sex-offender registries to increase the annual fees they charge offenders to $100. That's a tenfold increase and at least a few local agencies have made the shift.

But Greg Sullivan of the Illinois Sheriffs Association says not nearly enough have.

The association pushed the increase to raise money for a new statewide sex-offender tracking system operated by the Attorney General's office. Of every $100 collected, $30 would go to that system. Sullivan says only a fraction of the money he hoped to raise is being collected.

Streator raised its fee this week. But Mayor Jimmie Lansford says he doesn't expect to collect much money.

 

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