Rep. Lou Lang

Filed: 5/27/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1265

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1265 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
5 changing Section 7 as follows:
 
6     (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
7     (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 95-988)
8     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
9     (1) The following shall be exempt from inspection and
10 copying:
11         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
12     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
13     adopted under federal or State law.
14         (b) Information that, if disclosed, would constitute a
15     clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
16     the disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual

 

 

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1     subjects of the information. The disclosure of information
2     that bears on the public duties of public employees and
3     officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
4     privacy. Information exempted under this subsection (b)
5     shall include but is not limited to:
6             (i) files and personal information maintained with
7         respect to clients, patients, residents, students or
8         other individuals receiving social, medical,
9         educational, vocational, financial, supervisory or
10         custodial care or services directly or indirectly from
11         federal agencies or public bodies;
12             (ii) personnel files and personal information
13         maintained with respect to employees, appointees or
14         elected officials of any public body or applicants for
15         those positions;
16             (iii) files and personal information maintained
17         with respect to any applicant, registrant or licensee
18         by any public body cooperating with or engaged in
19         professional or occupational registration, licensure
20         or discipline;
21             (iv) information required of any taxpayer in
22         connection with the assessment or collection of any tax
23         unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
24         statute;
25             (v) information revealing the identity of persons
26         who file complaints with or provide information to

 

 

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1         administrative, investigative, law enforcement or
2         penal agencies; provided, however, that identification
3         of witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
4         reports, and rescue reports may be provided by agencies
5         of local government, except in a case for which a
6         criminal investigation is ongoing, without
7         constituting a clearly unwarranted per se invasion of
8         personal privacy under this subsection; and
9             (vi) the names, addresses, or other personal
10         information of participants and registrants in park
11         district, forest preserve district, and conservation
12         district programs; and .
13             (viii) information obtained from any recording of
14         a 911 emergency call regarding a known or suspected (A)
15         sexual assault or abuse or (B) death by homicide, where
16         such information is the reason for the recorded 911
17         emergency call, with the exception of any portion of
18         the recording which includes only the public official
19         or public employee who receives the recorded 911
20         emergency call. The exempted information shall include
21         any portion of the recording of the person making the
22         call, any information identifying the known or
23         suspected victim, and any other information that is
24         part of the recording not identified to be the public
25         official or employee. Exempted information may be
26         disclosed on a limited basis by a law enforcement

 

 

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1         agency as provided under clause (c)(vi).
2         (c) Records compiled by any public body for
3     administrative enforcement proceedings and any law
4     enforcement or correctional agency for law enforcement
5     purposes or for internal matters of a public body, but only
6     to the extent that disclosure would:
7             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
8         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
9         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
10         agency;
11             (ii) interfere with pending administrative
12         enforcement proceedings conducted by any public body;
13             (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an
14         impartial hearing;
15             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
16         confidential source or confidential information
17         furnished only by the confidential source;
18             (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
19         techniques other than those generally used and known or
20         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
21         related to detection, observation or investigation of
22         incidents of crime or misconduct;
23             (vi) constitute an invasion of personal privacy
24         under subsection (b) of this Section, including any
25         recording of a 911 emergency call regarding a known or
26         suspected sexual assault or abuse, or death by

 

 

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1         homicide, unless the law enforcement agency reasonably
2         believes the disclosure of such information (A) may
3         assist in a pending or actually and reasonably
4         contemplated law enforcement proceeding, conducted by
5         any law enforcement agency, or (B) may assist in a
6         criminal proceeding before any court, which is
7         directly related to the known or suspected sexual
8         assault or abuse, or death by homicide;
9             (vii) endanger the life or physical safety of law
10         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
11             (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation.
12         (d) Criminal history record information maintained by
13     State or local criminal justice agencies, except the
14     following which shall be open for public inspection and
15     copying:
16             (i) chronologically maintained arrest information,
17         such as traditional arrest logs or blotters;
18             (ii) the name of a person in the custody of a law
19         enforcement agency and the charges for which that
20         person is being held;
21             (iii) court records that are public;
22             (iv) records that are otherwise available under
23         State or local law; or
24             (v) records in which the requesting party is the
25         individual identified, except as provided under part
26         (vii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this

 

 

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1         Section.
2         "Criminal history record information" means data
3     identifiable to an individual and consisting of
4     descriptions or notations of arrests, detentions,
5     indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
6     or other formal events in the criminal justice system or
7     descriptions or notations of criminal charges (including
8     criminal violations of local municipal ordinances) and the
9     nature of any disposition arising therefrom, including
10     sentencing, court or correctional supervision,
11     rehabilitation and release. The term does not apply to
12     statistical records and reports in which individuals are
13     not identified and from which their identities are not
14     ascertainable, or to information that is for criminal
15     investigative or intelligence purposes.
16         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
17     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
18         (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
19     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
20     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
21     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
22     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
23     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
24     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
25     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
26     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.

 

 

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1         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
2     information obtained from a person or business where the
3     trade secrets or information are proprietary, privileged
4     or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
5     or information may cause competitive harm, including:
6             (i) All information determined to be confidential
7         under Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and
8         Development Act.
9             (ii) All trade secrets and commercial or financial
10         information obtained by a public body, including a
11         public pension fund, from a private equity fund or a
12         privately held company within the investment portfolio
13         of a private equity fund as a result of either
14         investing or evaluating a potential investment of
15         public funds in a private equity fund. The exemption
16         contained in this item does not apply to the aggregate
17         financial performance information of a private equity
18         fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or
19         general partners. The exemption contained in this item
20         does not apply to the identity of a privately held
21         company within the investment portfolio of a private
22         equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
23         privately held company may cause competitive harm.
24     Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be construed
25 to prevent a person or business from consenting to disclosure.
26         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or

 

 

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1     agreement, including information which if it were
2     disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
3     to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
4     agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
5     is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
6     preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
7     award or final selection is made.
8         (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
9     designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
10     any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
11     expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
12     exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
13     this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
14     media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
15     requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
16     purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
17     information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
18     legal rights of the general public.
19         (j) Test questions, scoring keys and other examination
20     data used to administer an academic examination or
21     determined the qualifications of an applicant for a license
22     or employment.
23         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
24     submissions, and other construction related technical
25     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
26     whole or in part with public funds and the same for

 

 

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1     projects constructed or developed with public funds, but
2     only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
3     security, including but not limited to water treatment
4     facilities, airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention
5     centers, and all government owned, operated, or occupied
6     buildings.
7         (l) Library circulation and order records identifying
8     library users with specific materials.
9         (m) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
10     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
11     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
12     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
13         (n) Communications between a public body and an
14     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
15     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
16     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
17     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
18     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
19     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
20     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
21         (o) Information received by a primary or secondary
22     school, college or university under its procedures for the
23     evaluation of faculty members by their academic peers.
24         (p) Administrative or technical information associated
25     with automated data processing operations, including but
26     not limited to software, operating protocols, computer

 

 

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1     program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
2     modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
3     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
4     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
5     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
6     security of the system or its data or the security of
7     materials exempt under this Section.
8         (q) Documents or materials relating to collective
9     negotiating matters between public bodies and their
10     employees or representatives, except that any final
11     contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
12     copying.
13         (r) Drafts, notes, recommendations and memoranda
14     pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
15     the public body. The records of ownership, registration,
16     transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
17     of persons to whom payment with respect to these
18     obligations is made.
19         (s) The records, documents and information relating to
20     real estate purchase negotiations until those negotiations
21     have been completed or otherwise terminated. With regard to
22     a parcel involved in a pending or actually and reasonably
23     contemplated eminent domain proceeding under the Eminent
24     Domain Act, records, documents and information relating to
25     that parcel shall be exempt except as may be allowed under
26     discovery rules adopted by the Illinois Supreme Court. The

 

 

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1     records, documents and information relating to a real
2     estate sale shall be exempt until a sale is consummated.
3         (t) Any and all proprietary information and records
4     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
5     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
6     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
7         (u) Information concerning a university's adjudication
8     of student or employee grievance or disciplinary cases, to
9     the extent that disclosure would reveal the identity of the
10     student or employee and information concerning any public
11     body's adjudication of student or employee grievances or
12     disciplinary cases, except for the final outcome of the
13     cases.
14         (v) Course materials or research materials used by
15     faculty members.
16         (w) Information related solely to the internal
17     personnel rules and practices of a public body.
18         (x) Information contained in or related to
19     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
20     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
21     for the regulation or supervision of financial
22     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
23     otherwise required by State law.
24         (y) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
25     under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
26         (z) Manuals or instruction to staff that relate to

 

 

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1     establishment or collection of liability for any State tax
2     or that relate to investigations by a public body to
3     determine violation of any criminal law.
4         (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical
5     records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
6     Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
7     prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
8     Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
9     has received.
10         (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any
11     intergovernmental risk management association or self
12     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
13     information, records, data, advice or communications.
14         (cc) Information and records held by the Department of
15     Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
16     to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
17     disease or any information the disclosure of which is
18     restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
19     Disease Control Act.
20         (dd) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
21     under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
22         (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
23     the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
24     Qualifications Based Selection Act.
25         (ff) Security portions of system safety program plans,
26     investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or

 

 

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1     information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
2     Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of
3     the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair
4     County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
5     Act.
6         (gg) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
7     and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
8     Tuition Act.
9         (hh) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
10     under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
11         (ii) Beginning July 1, 1999, information that would
12     disclose or might lead to the disclosure of secret or
13     confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs, or
14     private keys intended to be used to create electronic or
15     digital signatures under the Electronic Commerce Security
16     Act.
17         (jj) Information contained in a local emergency energy
18     plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
19     emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under
20     Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
21         (kk) Information and data concerning the distribution
22     of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless
23     carriers under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety
24     Act.
25         (ll) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
26     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,

 

 

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1     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
2     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
3     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
4     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
5     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
6     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
7     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
8     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
9     include such things as details pertaining to the
10     mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
11     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
12     tactical operations.
13         (mm) Maps and other records regarding the location or
14     security of generation, transmission, distribution,
15     storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
16     owned by a utility or by the Illinois Power Agency.
17         (nn) Law enforcement officer identification
18     information or driver identification information compiled
19     by a law enforcement agency or the Department of
20     Transportation under Section 11-212 of the Illinois
21     Vehicle Code.
22         (oo) Records and information provided to a residential
23     health care facility resident sexual assault and death
24     review team or the Executive Council under the Abuse
25     Prevention Review Team Act.
26         (pp) Information provided to the predatory lending

 

 

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1     database created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential
2     Real Property Disclosure Act, except to the extent
3     authorized under that Article.
4         (qq) Defense budgets and petitions for certification
5     of compensation and expenses for court appointed trial
6     counsel as provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital
7     Crimes Litigation Act. This subsection (qq) shall apply
8     until the conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the
9     prosecution chooses not to pursue the death penalty prior
10     to trial or sentencing.
11         (rr) Information contained in or related to proposals,
12     bids, or negotiations related to electric power
13     procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
14     Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
15     is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
16     Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
17     Commission.
18         (ss) Information that is prohibited from being
19     disclosed under Section 4 of the Illinois Health and
20     Hazardous Substances Registry Act.
21     (2) This Section does not authorize withholding of
22 information or limit the availability of records to the public,
23 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
24 Act.
25 (Source: P.A. 94-280, eff. 1-1-06; 94-508, eff. 1-1-06; 94-664,
26 eff. 1-1-06; 94-931, eff. 6-26-06; 94-953, eff. 6-27-06;

 

 

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1 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff.
2 8-28-07; 95-941, eff. 8-29-08.)
 
3     (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 95-988)
4     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
5     (1) The following shall be exempt from inspection and
6 copying:
7         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
8     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
9     adopted under federal or State law.
10         (b) Information that, if disclosed, would constitute a
11     clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
12     the disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
13     subjects of the information. The disclosure of information
14     that bears on the public duties of public employees and
15     officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
16     privacy. Information exempted under this subsection (b)
17     shall include but is not limited to:
18             (i) files and personal information maintained with
19         respect to clients, patients, residents, students or
20         other individuals receiving social, medical,
21         educational, vocational, financial, supervisory or
22         custodial care or services directly or indirectly from
23         federal agencies or public bodies;
24             (ii) personnel files and personal information
25         maintained with respect to employees, appointees or

 

 

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1         elected officials of any public body or applicants for
2         those positions;
3             (iii) files and personal information maintained
4         with respect to any applicant, registrant or licensee
5         by any public body cooperating with or engaged in
6         professional or occupational registration, licensure
7         or discipline;
8             (iv) information required of any taxpayer in
9         connection with the assessment or collection of any tax
10         unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
11         statute;
12             (v) information revealing the identity of persons
13         who file complaints with or provide information to
14         administrative, investigative, law enforcement or
15         penal agencies; provided, however, that identification
16         of witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
17         reports, and rescue reports may be provided by agencies
18         of local government, except in a case for which a
19         criminal investigation is ongoing, without
20         constituting a clearly unwarranted per se invasion of
21         personal privacy under this subsection;
22             (vi) the names, addresses, or other personal
23         information of participants and registrants in park
24         district, forest preserve district, and conservation
25         district programs; and
26             (vii) the Notarial Record or other medium

 

 

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1         containing the thumbprint or fingerprint required by
2         Section 3-102(c)(6) of the Illinois Notary Public Act;
3         and .
4             (viii) information obtained from any recording of
5         a 911 emergency call regarding a known or suspected (A)
6         sexual assault or abuse or (B) death by homicide, where
7         such information is the reason for the recorded 911
8         emergency call, with the exception of any portion of
9         the recording which includes only the public official
10         or public employee who receives the recorded 911
11         emergency call. The exempted information shall include
12         any portion of the recording of the person making the
13         call, any information identifying the known or
14         suspected victim, and any other information that is
15         part of the recording not identified to be the public
16         official or employee. Exempted information may be
17         disclosed on a limited basis by a law enforcement
18         agency as provided under clause (c)(vi).
19         (c) Records compiled by any public body for
20     administrative enforcement proceedings and any law
21     enforcement or correctional agency for law enforcement
22     purposes or for internal matters of a public body, but only
23     to the extent that disclosure would:
24             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
25         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
26         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional

 

 

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1         agency;
2             (ii) interfere with pending administrative
3         enforcement proceedings conducted by any public body;
4             (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an
5         impartial hearing;
6             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
7         confidential source or confidential information
8         furnished only by the confidential source;
9             (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
10         techniques other than those generally used and known or
11         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
12         related to detection, observation or investigation of
13         incidents of crime or misconduct;
14             (vi) constitute an invasion of personal privacy
15         under subsection (b) of this Section, including any
16         recording of a 911 emergency call regarding a known or
17         suspected sexual assault or abuse, or death by
18         homicide, unless the law enforcement agency reasonably
19         believes the disclosure of such information (A) may
20         assist in a pending or actually and reasonably
21         contemplated law enforcement proceeding, conducted by
22         any law enforcement agency, or (B) may assist in a
23         criminal proceeding before any court, which is
24         directly related to the known or suspected sexual
25         assault or abuse, or death by homicide;
26             (vii) endanger the life or physical safety of law

 

 

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1         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
2             (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation.
3         (d) Criminal history record information maintained by
4     State or local criminal justice agencies, except the
5     following which shall be open for public inspection and
6     copying:
7             (i) chronologically maintained arrest information,
8         such as traditional arrest logs or blotters;
9             (ii) the name of a person in the custody of a law
10         enforcement agency and the charges for which that
11         person is being held;
12             (iii) court records that are public;
13             (iv) records that are otherwise available under
14         State or local law; or
15             (v) records in which the requesting party is the
16         individual identified, except as provided under part
17         (vii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this
18         Section.
19         "Criminal history record information" means data
20     identifiable to an individual and consisting of
21     descriptions or notations of arrests, detentions,
22     indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
23     or other formal events in the criminal justice system or
24     descriptions or notations of criminal charges (including
25     criminal violations of local municipal ordinances) and the
26     nature of any disposition arising therefrom, including

 

 

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1     sentencing, court or correctional supervision,
2     rehabilitation and release. The term does not apply to
3     statistical records and reports in which individuals are
4     not identified and from which their identities are not
5     ascertainable, or to information that is for criminal
6     investigative or intelligence purposes.
7         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
8     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
9         (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
10     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
11     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
12     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
13     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
14     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
15     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
16     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
17     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
18         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
19     information obtained from a person or business where the
20     trade secrets or information are proprietary, privileged
21     or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
22     or information may cause competitive harm, including:
23             (i) All information determined to be confidential
24         under Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and
25         Development Act.
26             (ii) All trade secrets and commercial or financial

 

 

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1         information obtained by a public body, including a
2         public pension fund, from a private equity fund or a
3         privately held company within the investment portfolio
4         of a private equity fund as a result of either
5         investing or evaluating a potential investment of
6         public funds in a private equity fund. The exemption
7         contained in this item does not apply to the aggregate
8         financial performance information of a private equity
9         fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or
10         general partners. The exemption contained in this item
11         does not apply to the identity of a privately held
12         company within the investment portfolio of a private
13         equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
14         privately held company may cause competitive harm.
15     Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be construed
16 to prevent a person or business from consenting to disclosure.
17         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
18     agreement, including information which if it were
19     disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
20     to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
21     agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
22     is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
23     preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
24     award or final selection is made.
25         (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
26     designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by

 

 

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1     any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
2     expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
3     exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
4     this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
5     media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
6     requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
7     purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
8     information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
9     legal rights of the general public.
10         (j) Test questions, scoring keys and other examination
11     data used to administer an academic examination or
12     determined the qualifications of an applicant for a license
13     or employment.
14         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
15     submissions, and other construction related technical
16     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
17     whole or in part with public funds and the same for
18     projects constructed or developed with public funds, but
19     only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
20     security, including but not limited to water treatment
21     facilities, airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention
22     centers, and all government owned, operated, or occupied
23     buildings.
24         (l) Library circulation and order records identifying
25     library users with specific materials.
26         (m) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the

 

 

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1     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
2     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
3     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
4         (n) Communications between a public body and an
5     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
6     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
7     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
8     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
9     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
10     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
11     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
12         (o) Information received by a primary or secondary
13     school, college or university under its procedures for the
14     evaluation of faculty members by their academic peers.
15         (p) Administrative or technical information associated
16     with automated data processing operations, including but
17     not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
18     program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
19     modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
20     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
21     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
22     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
23     security of the system or its data or the security of
24     materials exempt under this Section.
25         (q) Documents or materials relating to collective
26     negotiating matters between public bodies and their

 

 

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1     employees or representatives, except that any final
2     contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
3     copying.
4         (r) Drafts, notes, recommendations and memoranda
5     pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
6     the public body. The records of ownership, registration,
7     transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
8     of persons to whom payment with respect to these
9     obligations is made.
10         (s) The records, documents and information relating to
11     real estate purchase negotiations until those negotiations
12     have been completed or otherwise terminated. With regard to
13     a parcel involved in a pending or actually and reasonably
14     contemplated eminent domain proceeding under the Eminent
15     Domain Act, records, documents and information relating to
16     that parcel shall be exempt except as may be allowed under
17     discovery rules adopted by the Illinois Supreme Court. The
18     records, documents and information relating to a real
19     estate sale shall be exempt until a sale is consummated.
20         (t) Any and all proprietary information and records
21     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
22     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
23     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
24         (u) Information concerning a university's adjudication
25     of student or employee grievance or disciplinary cases, to
26     the extent that disclosure would reveal the identity of the

 

 

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1     student or employee and information concerning any public
2     body's adjudication of student or employee grievances or
3     disciplinary cases, except for the final outcome of the
4     cases.
5         (v) Course materials or research materials used by
6     faculty members.
7         (w) Information related solely to the internal
8     personnel rules and practices of a public body.
9         (x) Information contained in or related to
10     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
11     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
12     for the regulation or supervision of financial
13     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
14     otherwise required by State law.
15         (y) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
16     under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
17         (z) Manuals or instruction to staff that relate to
18     establishment or collection of liability for any State tax
19     or that relate to investigations by a public body to
20     determine violation of any criminal law.
21         (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical
22     records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
23     Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
24     prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
25     Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
26     has received.

 

 

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1         (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any
2     intergovernmental risk management association or self
3     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
4     information, records, data, advice or communications.
5         (cc) Information and records held by the Department of
6     Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
7     to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
8     disease or any information the disclosure of which is
9     restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
10     Disease Control Act.
11         (dd) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
12     under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
13         (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
14     the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
15     Qualifications Based Selection Act.
16         (ff) Security portions of system safety program plans,
17     investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
18     information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
19     Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of
20     the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair
21     County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
22     Act.
23         (gg) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
24     and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
25     Tuition Act.
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1     under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
2         (ii) Beginning July 1, 1999, information that would
3     disclose or might lead to the disclosure of secret or
4     confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs, or
5     private keys intended to be used to create electronic or
6     digital signatures under the Electronic Commerce Security
7     Act.
8         (jj) Information contained in a local emergency energy
9     plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
10     emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under
11     Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
12         (kk) Information and data concerning the distribution
13     of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless
14     carriers under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety
15     Act.
16         (ll) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
17     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
18     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
19     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
20     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
21     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
22     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
23     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
24     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
25     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
26     include such things as details pertaining to the

 

 

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1     mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
2     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
3     tactical operations.
4         (mm) Maps and other records regarding the location or
5     security of generation, transmission, distribution,
6     storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
7     owned by a utility or by the Illinois Power Agency.
8         (nn) Law enforcement officer identification
9     information or driver identification information compiled
10     by a law enforcement agency or the Department of
11     Transportation under Section 11-212 of the Illinois
12     Vehicle Code.
13         (oo) Records and information provided to a residential
14     health care facility resident sexual assault and death
15     review team or the Executive Council under the Abuse
16     Prevention Review Team Act.
17         (pp) Information provided to the predatory lending
18     database created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential
19     Real Property Disclosure Act, except to the extent
20     authorized under that Article.
21         (qq) Defense budgets and petitions for certification
22     of compensation and expenses for court appointed trial
23     counsel as provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital
24     Crimes Litigation Act. This subsection (qq) shall apply
25     until the conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the
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1     to trial or sentencing.
2         (rr) Information contained in or related to proposals,
3     bids, or negotiations related to electric power
4     procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
5     Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
6     is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
7     Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
8     Commission.
9         (ss) Information that is prohibited from being
10     disclosed under Section 4 of the Illinois Health and
11     Hazardous Substances Registry Act.
12     (2) This Section does not authorize withholding of
13 information or limit the availability of records to the public,
14 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
15 Act.
16 (Source: P.A. 94-280, eff. 1-1-06; 94-508, eff. 1-1-06; 94-664,
17 eff. 1-1-06; 94-931, eff. 6-26-06; 94-953, eff. 6-27-06;
18 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff.
19 8-28-07; 95-941, eff. 8-29-08; 95-988, eff. 6-1-09; revised
20 10-20-08.)
 
21     Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes
22 changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text
23 that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section
24 represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does
25 not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes

 

 

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1 made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other
2 Public Act.
 
3     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4 becoming law.".