Illinois Governor to sign nursing home bill promoting resident safety
Gov. Rod Blagojevich plans to sign a bill that will keep nursing home residents safer by requiring criminal background checks for all current and incoming Illinois nursing home residents. The bill requires the state’s 1000 nursing homes to identify sex offenders and violent felons. The bill is an answer to rapes and beatings that have occurred throughout Illinois. In 2005, the Chicago Sun Times released an expose of sex offenders and parolees living in Illinois.
http://levinperconti.blawgs.pro/Parolees%20living%20in%20state%20nursing%20homes.htm
When the governor signs the bill, Illinois will be the first state requiring criminal background checks for admitted residents. The bill is needed in Illinois, which ranks second only to California in the number of known felons and sex offenders per resident. (70 known felons and sex offenders, out of the state’s 100,000 residents).
For the full article:
http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/85629.asp
Bookmark: 
