101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB2135

 

Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. Terry Link

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 140/7  from Ch. 116, par. 207

    Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Exempts from inspection and copying a law enforcement record created for law enforcement purposes if the public body that is the recipient of the request did not create the record and did not participate in or have a role in any of the events that are the subject of the record. Provides that if a public body receives a request for a law enforcement record created for law enforcement purposes that it did not create, the public body shall direct the requester to the public body that created the law enforcement record. Deletes language exempting from inspection and copying a law enforcement record created for law enforcement purposes and contained in a shared electronic record management system if the law enforcement agency that is the recipient of the request did not create the record, did not participate in or have a role in any of the events which are the subject of the record, and only has access to the record through the shared electronic record management system.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
5changing Section 7 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
7    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
8    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
9record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
10under this Section, but also contains information that is not
11exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
12information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
13remaining information available for inspection and copying.
14Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
15inspection and copying:
16        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
17    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
18    implementing federal or State law.
19        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
20    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
21    a court order.
22        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
23    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and

 

 

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1    specifically designed to provide information to one or more
2    law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
3    status of one or more individual subjects.
4        (c) Personal information contained within public
5    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
6    unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
7    disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
8    subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
9    personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
10    is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
11    and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
12    legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
13    The disclosure of information that bears on the public
14    duties of public employees and officials shall not be
15    considered an invasion of personal privacy.
16        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
17    created in the course of administrative enforcement
18    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
19    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
20    that disclosure would:
21            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
22        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
23        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
24        agency that is the recipient of the request;
25            (ii) interfere with active administrative
26        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body

 

 

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1        that is the recipient of the request;
2            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
3        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
4        hearing;
5            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
6        confidential source, confidential information
7        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
8        who file complaints with or provide information to
9        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
10        penal agencies; except that the identities of
11        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
12        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
13        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
14        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
15        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
16        request;
17            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
18        techniques other than those generally used and known or
19        disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
20        related to detection, observation or investigation of
21        incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
22        result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
23        body that is the recipient of the request;
24            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
25        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
26            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation

 

 

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1        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
2        (d-5) A law enforcement record created for law
3    enforcement purposes if the public body that is the
4    recipient of the request did not create the record and did
5    not participate in or have a role in any of the events that
6    are the subject of the record. If a public body receives a
7    request for a law enforcement record created for law
8    enforcement purposes that it did not create, the public
9    body shall direct the requester to the public body that
10    created the law enforcement record. A law enforcement
11    record created for law enforcement purposes and contained
12    in a shared electronic record management system if the law
13    enforcement agency that is the recipient of the request did
14    not create the record, did not participate in or have a
15    role in any of the events which are the subject of the
16    record, and only has access to the record through the
17    shared electronic record management system.
18        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
19    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
20        (e-5) Records requested by persons committed to the
21    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
22    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
23    materials are available in the library of the correctional
24    institution or facility or jail where the inmate is
25    confined.
26        (e-6) Records requested by persons committed to the

 

 

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1    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
2    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail if those
3    materials include records from staff members' personnel
4    files, staff rosters, or other staffing assignment
5    information.
6        (e-7) Records requested by persons committed to the
7    Department of Corrections or Department of Human Services
8    Division of Mental Health if those materials are available
9    through an administrative request to the Department of
10    Corrections or Department of Human Services Division of
11    Mental Health.
12        (e-8) Records requested by a person committed to the
13    Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services
14    Division of Mental Health, or a county jail, the disclosure
15    of which would result in the risk of harm to any person or
16    the risk of an escape from a jail or correctional
17    institution or facility.
18        (e-9) Records requested by a person in a county jail or
19    committed to the Department of Corrections or Department of
20    Human Services Division of Mental Health, containing
21    personal information pertaining to the person's victim or
22    the victim's family, including, but not limited to, a
23    victim's home address, home telephone number, work or
24    school address, work telephone number, social security
25    number, or any other identifying information, except as may
26    be relevant to a requester's current or potential case or

 

 

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1    claim.
2        (e-10) Law enforcement records of other persons
3    requested by a person committed to the Department of
4    Corrections, Department of Human Services Division of
5    Mental Health, or a county jail, including, but not limited
6    to, arrest and booking records, mug shots, and crime scene
7    photographs, except as these records may be relevant to the
8    requester's current or potential case or claim.
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 commercial or financial information are
21    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
22    privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
23    trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
24    cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
25    insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
26    requested.

 

 

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

 

 

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1        (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
2    designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
3    any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
4    expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
5    exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
6    this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
7    media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
8    requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
9    purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
10    information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
11    legal rights of the general public.
12        (j) The following information pertaining to
13    educational matters:
14            (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
15        examination data used to administer an academic
16        examination;
17            (ii) information received by a primary or
18        secondary school, college, or university under its
19        procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
20        their academic peers;
21            (iii) information concerning a school or
22        university's adjudication of student disciplinary
23        cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
24        unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
25            (iv) course materials or research materials used
26        by faculty members.

 

 

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1        (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
2    submissions, and other construction related technical
3    documents for projects not constructed or developed in
4    whole or in part with public funds and the same for
5    projects constructed or developed with public funds,
6    including but not limited to power generating and
7    distribution stations and other transmission and
8    distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
9    airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
10    and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
11    but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
12    security.
13        (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
14    public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
15    public body makes the minutes available to the public under
16    Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
17        (m) Communications between a public body and an
18    attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
19    not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
20    prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
21    anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
22    proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
23    public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
24    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
25        (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
26    employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this

 

 

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1    exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
2    which discipline is imposed.
3        (o) Administrative or technical information associated
4    with automated data processing operations, including but
5    not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
6    program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
7    modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
8    pertaining to all logical and physical design of
9    computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
10    information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
11    security of the system or its data or the security of
12    materials exempt under this Section.
13        (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
14    between public bodies and their employees or
15    representatives, except that any final contract or
16    agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
17        (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
18    examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
19    applicant for a license or employment.
20        (r) The records, documents, and information relating
21    to real estate purchase negotiations until those
22    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
23    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
24    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
25    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
26    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except

 

 

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1    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
2    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
3    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
4    until a sale is consummated.
5        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
6    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
7    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
8    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
9    Insurance or self insurance (including any
10    intergovernmental risk management association or self
11    insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
12    information, records, data, advice or communications.
13        (t) Information contained in or related to
14    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
15    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
16    for the regulation or supervision of financial
17    institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
18    otherwise required by State law.
19        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
20    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
21    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
22    used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
23    Electronic Commerce Security Act.
24        (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
25    response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
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1    population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
2    destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
3    clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
4    community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
5    reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
6    the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
7    them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
8    include such things as details pertaining to the
9    mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
10    the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
11    tactical operations.
12        (w) (Blank).
13        (x) 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, by a power generator, or by the
17    Illinois Power Agency.
18        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
19    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
20    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
21    Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
22    is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
23    Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
24    Commission.
25        (z) Information about students exempted from
26    disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the

 

 

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1    School Code, and information about undergraduate students
2    enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
3    from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
4    Card Marketing Act of 2009.
5        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
6    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
7        (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
8    review team and records maintained by a mortality review
9    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
10    Mortality Review Team Act.
11        (cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
12    inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
13    Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
14    the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.
15        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
16    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
17    Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
18    the Illinois Public Aid Code.
19        (ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
20    information of persons who are minors and are also
21    participants and registrants in programs of park
22    districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
23    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
24    associations.
25        (ff) The names, addresses, or other personal
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1    park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
2    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
3    associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
4    minors.
5        (gg) Confidential information described in Section
6    1-100 of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal Act of 2012.
7        (hh) The report submitted to the State Board of
8    Education by the School Security and Standards Task Force
9    under item (8) of subsection (d) of Section 2-3.160 of the
10    School Code and any information contained in that report.
11        (ii) Records requested by persons committed to or
12    detained by the Department of Human Services under the
13    Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act or committed to the
14    Department of Corrections under the Sexually Dangerous
15    Persons Act if those materials: (i) are available in the
16    library of the facility where the individual is confined;
17    (ii) include records from staff members' personnel files,
18    staff rosters, or other staffing assignment information;
19    or (iii) are available through an administrative request to
20    the Department of Human Services or the Department of
21    Corrections.
22        (jj) Confidential information described in Section
23    5-535 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
24    (1.5) Any information exempt from disclosure under the
25Judicial Privacy Act shall be redacted from public records
26prior to disclosure under this Act.

 

 

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1    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
2public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
3agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
4behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
5governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
6Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
7for purposes of this Act.
8    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
9information or limit the availability of records to the public,
10except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
11Act.
12(Source: P.A. 99-298, eff. 8-6-15; 99-346, eff. 1-1-16; 99-642,
13eff. 7-28-16; 100-26, eff. 8-4-17; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17;
14100-732, eff. 8-3-18.)