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(3) reviewing and advising the Department on proposed or |
pending legislation, primarily as it concerns current and |
former youth in foster care; and |
(4) reviewing and making recommendations on Department |
foster care and child welfare service delivery policies, |
guidelines, procedures, and training.
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Section 10. Membership. |
(a) The Statewide Youth Advisory Board shall consist of |
executive regional board members elected to represent the |
regional youth advisory boards. |
(b) The Statewide Youth Advisory Board and each regional |
youth advisory board shall be composed of youth 14 to 21 years |
of age who are former or current youth in foster care appointed |
by the Department of Children and Family Services or its |
designee.
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Section 15. Meetings. |
(a) Regular meetings of the regional youth advisory boards |
shall be held monthly. |
(b) Regular meetings of the Statewide Youth Advisory Board |
shall be held at least 5 times per year. |
(c) The Director of the Department or his or her designee |
shall meet with the Statewide Youth Advisory Board at least |
quarterly in order to discuss the issues and concerns of youth |
in foster care. |
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(d) All meetings shall take place at locations, dates, and |
times determined by the Department or its designee in |
accordance with the bylaws for the Statewide Youth Advisory |
Board and the regional
youth advisory boards.
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Section 20. Operations. The Department or its designee |
shall manage each board, facilitate meetings, and develop |
further necessary procedures, including, but not limited to, |
bylaws for the Statewide Youth Advisory Board and the regional |
youth advisory boards. The Department shall provide funding |
necessary to maintain the operations of each board. The |
Department shall not provide a Statewide Youth Advisory Board |
or a regional youth advisory board with any records or |
information that a public body may withhold or redact pursuant |
to Section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act.
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Section 25. Reporting. The Statewide Youth Advisory Board |
shall report annually to the General Assembly on issues |
concerning adoption and guardianship and youth in foster care, |
and make recommendations regarding legislation, policies, |
guidelines, procedures, and training.
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Section 30. Public access to information. |
(a) Meetings of the Statewide Youth Advisory Board and each |
regional youth advisory board shall be closed to the public. |
Meetings of the Statewide Youth Advisory Board and each |
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regional youth advisory board shall not be subject to the Open |
Meetings Act. |
(b) Records and information produced by the Statewide Youth |
Advisory Board and each regional youth advisory board, except a |
report submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to Section 25 |
of this Act, shall be confidential and not subject to the |
Freedom of Information Act.
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Section 35. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing |
Section 1.02 as follows:
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(5 ILCS 120/1.02) (from Ch. 102, par. 41.02) |
Sec. 1.02. For the purposes of this Act:
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"Meeting" means any gathering, whether in person or by |
video or audio conference, telephone call, electronic means |
(such as, without limitation, electronic mail, electronic |
chat, and instant messaging), or other means of contemporaneous |
interactive communication, of a majority of a quorum of the |
members of a
public body held for the purpose of discussing |
public
business or, for a 5-member public body, a quorum of the |
members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing |
public business. |
Accordingly, for a 5-member public body, 3 members of the |
body constitute a quorum and the affirmative vote of 3 members |
is necessary to adopt any motion, resolution, or ordinance, |
unless a greater number is otherwise required.
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"Public body" includes all legislative, executive, |
administrative or advisory
bodies of the State, counties, |
townships, cities, villages, incorporated
towns, school |
districts and all other municipal corporations, boards, |
bureaus,
committees or commissions of this State, and any |
subsidiary bodies of any
of the foregoing including but not |
limited to committees and subcommittees
which are supported in |
whole or in part by tax revenue, or which expend tax
revenue, |
except the General Assembly and committees or commissions |
thereof.
"Public body" includes tourism boards and convention |
or civic center
boards located in counties that are contiguous |
to the Mississippi River with
populations of more than 250,000 |
but less than 300,000. "Public body"
includes the Health |
Facilities and Services Review Board. "Public body" does not
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include a child death review team or the Illinois Child Death |
Review Teams
Executive Council established under
the Child |
Death Review Team Act, an ethics commission acting under the |
State Officials and
Employees Ethics Act, a regional youth |
advisory board or the Statewide Youth Advisory Board |
established under the Department of Children and Family |
Services Statewide Youth Advisory Board Act, or the Illinois |
Independent Tax Tribunal.
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(Source: P.A. 96-31, eff. 6-30-09; 97-1129, eff. 8-28-12.)
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Section 40. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by |
changing Section 2 as follows:
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(5 ILCS 140/2) (from Ch. 116, par. 202)
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Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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(a) "Public body" means all legislative,
executive, |
administrative, or advisory bodies of the State, state |
universities
and colleges, counties, townships, cities, |
villages, incorporated towns,
school districts and all other |
municipal corporations,
boards, bureaus, committees, or |
commissions of this State, any
subsidiary
bodies of any of the |
foregoing including but not limited to committees and
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subcommittees thereof, and a School Finance Authority created |
under
Article 1E of the School Code.
"Public body" does not |
include a child death review team
or the Illinois Child Death |
Review Teams
Executive Council
established under
the Child |
Death Review Team Act, or a regional youth advisory board or |
the Statewide Youth Advisory Board established under the |
Department of Children and Family Services Statewide Youth |
Advisory Board Act.
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(b) "Person" means any individual, corporation, |
partnership, firm,
organization
or association, acting |
individually or as a group.
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(c) "Public records" means all records, reports, forms, |
writings, letters,
memoranda, books, papers, maps, |
photographs, microfilms, cards, tapes,
recordings,
electronic |
data processing records, electronic communications, recorded |
information and all other
documentary
materials pertaining to |
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the transaction of public business, regardless of physical form |
or characteristics, having been
prepared by or for, or having |
been or being used by, received by, in the possession of, or |
under the
control
of
any public body. |
(c-5) "Private information" means unique identifiers, |
including a person's social security number, driver's license |
number, employee identification number, biometric identifiers, |
personal financial information, passwords or other access |
codes, medical records, home or personal telephone numbers, and |
personal email addresses. Private information also includes |
home address and personal license plates, except as otherwise |
provided by law or when compiled without possibility of |
attribution to any person. |
(c-10) "Commercial purpose" means the use of any part of a |
public record or records, or information derived from public |
records, in any form for sale, resale, or solicitation or |
advertisement for sales or services. For purposes of this |
definition, requests made by news media and non-profit, |
scientific, or academic organizations shall not be considered |
to be made for a "commercial purpose" when the principal |
purpose of the request is (i) to access and disseminate |
information concerning news and current or passing events, (ii) |
for articles of opinion or features of interest to the public, |
or (iii) for the purpose of academic, scientific, or public |
research or education.
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(d) "Copying" means the reproduction of any public record |
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by means of any
photographic, electronic, mechanical or other |
process, device or means now known or hereafter developed and |
available to the public body.
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(e) "Head of the public body" means the president, mayor, |
chairman,
presiding
officer, director, superintendent, |
manager, supervisor or individual otherwise
holding primary |
executive and administrative authority for the public
body, or |
such person's duly authorized designee.
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(f) "News media" means a newspaper or other periodical |
issued at regular
intervals whether in print or electronic |
format, a news service whether
in print or electronic format, a |
radio
station, a television station, a television network, a |
community
antenna television service, or a person or |
corporation engaged in making news
reels or other motion |
picture news for public showing.
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(g) "Recurrent requester", as used in Section 3.2 of this |
Act, means a person that, in the 12 months immediately |
preceding the request, has submitted to the same public body |
(i) a minimum of 50 requests for records, (ii) a minimum of 15 |
requests for records within a 30-day period, or (iii) a minimum |
of 7 requests for records within a 7-day period. For purposes |
of this definition, requests made by news media and non-profit, |
scientific, or academic organizations shall not be considered |
in calculating the number of requests made in the time periods |
in this definition when the principal purpose of the requests |
is (i) to access and disseminate information concerning news |
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and current or passing events, (ii) for articles of opinion or |
features of interest to the public, or (iii) for the purpose of |
academic, scientific, or public research or education. |
For the purposes of this subsection (g), "request" means a |
written document (or oral request, if the public body chooses |
to honor oral requests) that is submitted to a public body via |
personal delivery, mail, telefax, electronic mail, or other |
means available to the public body and that identifies the |
particular public record the requester seeks. One request may |
identify multiple records to be inspected or copied. |
(Source: P.A. 96-261, eff. 1-1-10; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; |
96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-579, eff. 8-26-11.)
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