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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB0226 Introduced 1/22/2025, by Sen. Donald P. DeWitte SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 5 ILCS 140/5 | from Ch. 116, par. 205 |
| Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a public body shall include in its list of records available under the Act the identification and a plain-text description of each of the types or categories of information of each field of each database of the public body. Provides that the public body shall provide a sufficient description of the structures of all databases under the control of the public body to allow a requester to request the public body to perform specific database queries. |
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| | SB0226 | | LRB104 03793 BDA 13817 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (5 ILCS 140/5) (from Ch. 116, par. 205) |
| 7 | | Sec. 5. As to public records prepared or received after |
| 8 | | the effective date of this Act, each public body shall |
| 9 | | maintain and make available for inspection and copying a |
| 10 | | reasonably current list of all types or categories of records |
| 11 | | under its control. The list shall be reasonably detailed in |
| 12 | | order to aid persons in obtaining access to public records |
| 13 | | pursuant to this Act and shall include the identification and |
| 14 | | a plain-text description of each of the types or categories of |
| 15 | | information of each field of each database of the public body. |
| 16 | | Each public body shall furnish upon request a description of |
| 17 | | the manner in which public records stored by means of |
| 18 | | electronic data processing may be obtained in a form |
| 19 | | comprehensible to persons lacking knowledge of computer |
| 20 | | language or printout format and shall provide a sufficient |
| 21 | | description of the structures of all databases under the |
| 22 | | control of the public body to allow a requester to request the |
| 23 | | public body to perform specific database queries. |