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 1        AN ACT in relation to health.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 1.  Short title. This Act may  be  cited  as  the
 5    Residential  Health Care Facility Resident Sexual Assault and
 6    Death Review Team Act.

 7        Section 5.  State policy. The  following  statements  are
 8    the policy of this State:
 9             (1)  Every nursing home resident is entitled to live
10        in  safety  and  decency  and  to  receive  competent and
11        respectful care that meets the requirements of State  and
12        federal law.
13             (2)  Responding  to  sexual assaults on nursing home
14        residents and to unnecessary nursing home resident deaths
15        is a State and a community responsibility.
16             (3)  When  a  nursing  home  resident  is   sexually
17        assaulted  or  dies  unnecessarily,  the  response by the
18        State and the community to  the  assault  or  death  must
19        include  an  accurate  and  complete determination of the
20        cause of the assault or death  and  the  development  and
21        implementation  of measures to prevent future assaults or
22        deaths from similar  causes.  The  response  may  include
23        court action, including prosecution of persons who may be
24        responsible  for  the assault or death and proceedings to
25        protect  other  residents  of  the  facility  where   the
26        resident  lived,  and disciplinary action against persons
27        who failed to meet their professional responsibilities to
28        the resident.
29             (4)  Professionals from  disparate  disciplines  and
30        agencies  who  have  responsibilities  for  nursing  home
31        residents  and expertise that can promote resident safety
 
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 1        and well-being should share their expertise and knowledge
 2        so that the goals of determining  the  causes  of  sexual
 3        assaults  and  unnecessary  resident deaths, planning and
 4        providing services to surviving residents, and preventing
 5        future assaults and unnecessary deaths can be achieved.
 6             (5)  A greater understanding of  the  incidence  and
 7        causes  of sexual assaults against nursing home residents
 8        and unnecessary nursing home resident deaths is necessary
 9        if  the  State  is  to  prevent   future   assaults   and
10        unnecessary deaths.
11             (6)  Multi-disciplinary  and multi-agency reviews of
12        sexual  assaults  against  nursing  home  residents   and
13        unnecessary  nursing  home resident deaths can assist the
14        State and counties in (i) investigating  resident  sexual
15        assaults   and   deaths,   (ii)   developing   a  greater
16        understanding of the incidence  and  causes  of  resident
17        sexual  assault and deaths and the methods for preventing
18        those assaults and deaths, and (iii) identifying gaps  in
19        services to nursing home residents.
20             (7)  Access  to  information regarding assaulted and
21        deceased nursing home residents by multi-disciplinary and
22        multi-agency nursing home  resident  sexual  assault  and
23        death  review  teams  is  necessary  for  those  teams to
24        achieve their purposes and duties.

25        Section 10.  Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the
26    context requires otherwise:
27        "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
28        "Director" means the Director of Public Health.
29        "Executive Council" means the Illinois Residential Health
30    Care Facility Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review  Teams
31    Executive Council.
32        "Resident"  means  a  person  residing  in  and receiving
33    personal care from a facility licensed under the Nursing Home
 
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 1    Care Act.
 2        "Review team" means a residential  health  care  facility
 3    resident sexual assault and death review team appointed under
 4    this Act.

 5        Section  15.  Residential  health  care facility resident
 6    sexual assault and death review teams; establishment.
 7        (a)  The Director, in  consultation  with  the  Executive
 8    Council   and   with   law  enforcement  agencies  and  other
 9    professionals  who  work  in  the  field  of   investigating,
10    treating,  or  preventing  nursing  home  resident  abuse  or
11    neglect in each of the Department's administrative regions of
12    the State, shall appoint members to a residential health care
13    facility  resident  sexual  assault  and death review team in
14    each such region outside Cook County  and  to  at  least  one
15    review  team  in  Cook County. The members of a team shall be
16    appointed  for  2-year  terms  and  shall  be  eligible   for
17    reappointment upon the expiration of their terms.
18        (b)  Each  review  team  shall  consist  of  at least one
19    member from each of the following categories:
20             (1)  Geriatrician or other  physician  knowledgeable
21        about nursing home resident abuse and neglect.
22             (2)   Representative of the Department.
23             (3)  State's    Attorney   or   State's   Attorney's
24        representative.
25             (4)  Representative  of  a  local  law   enforcement
26        agency.
27             (5)  Representative of the Illinois Attorney General
28             (6)  Psychologist or psychiatrist.
29             (7)  Representative of a local health department.
30             (8)  Representative  of  a  social service or health
31        care agency that provides services to persons with mental
32        illness, in a program whose accreditation to provide such
33        services is recognized by the  Office  of  Mental  Health
 
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 1        within the Department of Human Services.
 2             (9)  Representatative  of a social service or health
 3        care  agency  that  provides  services  to  persons  with
 4        developmental   disabilities,   in   a   program    whose
 5        accreditation  to  provide such services is recognized by
 6        the  Office  of  Developmental  Disabilities  within  the
 7        Department of Human Services.
 8             (10)  Coroner or forensic pathologist.
 9             (11)  Representative   of   the   local    sub-state
10        ombudsman.
11             (12)  Representative  of  a  nursing  home  resident
12        advocacy organization.
13             (13)  Representative  of  a  local  hospital, trauma
14        center, or provider of emergency medical services.
15             (14)  Representative   of   an   organization   that
16        represents nursing homes.
17        Each review team may make recommendations to the Director
18    concerning additional appointments. Each review  team  member
19    must   have   demonstrated  experience  and  an  interest  in
20    investigating, treating, or preventing nursing home  resident
21    abuse or neglect.
22        (c)  Each  review  team  shall  select a chairperson from
23    among its members. The chairperson shall also  serve  on  the
24    Illinois  Residential Health Care Facility Sexual Assault and
25    Death Review Teams Executive Council.

26        Section 20.  Reviews  of  nursing  home  resident  sexual
27    assaults and deaths.
28        (a)  Every  sexual  assault  of  a  nursing home resident
29    shall be reviewed by the review team for the region that  has
30    primary case management responsibility.
31        (b)  Every  death  of  a  nursing  home resident shall be
32    reviewed by the review team for the region that  has  primary
33    case  management  responsibility, if the deceased resident is
 
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 1    one of the following:
 2             (1)  A  person  whose  care  the  Department   found
 3        violated  federal  or  State  standards  in the 12 months
 4        preceding the resident's death.
 5             (2)  A person  whose  care  was  the  subject  of  a
 6        complaint  to the Department in the 30 days preceding the
 7        resident's death, or after the resident's death. A review
 8        team  may,  at  its  discretion,  review  other   sudden,
 9        unexpected, or unexplained nursing home resident deaths.
10        (b)  A  review  team's  purpose  in conducting reviews of
11    resident sexual assaults and deaths is to do the following:
12             (1)  Assist in determining the cause and  manner  of
13        the resident's assault or death, when requested.
14             (2)  Evaluate means, if any, by which the assault or
15        death might have been prevented.
16             (3)  Report its findings to appropriate agencies and
17        make  recommendations  that may help to reduce the number
18        of sexual assaults on and unnecessary deaths  of  nursing
19        home residents.
20             (4)  Promote  continuing education for professionals
21        involved  in  investigating,  treating,  and   preventing
22        nursing  home  resident  abuse  and neglect as a means of
23        preventing sexual  assaults  and  unnecessary  deaths  of
24        nursing home residents.
25             (5)  Make  specific  recommendations to the Director
26        concerning  the  prevention  of   sexual   assaults   and
27        unnecessary  deaths  of  nursing  home  residents and the
28        establishment of  protocols  for  investigating  resident
29        sexual assaults and deaths.
30        (c)  A  review team must review a sexual assault or death
31    as soon as practicable and not later than 90  days  following
32    the  completion by the Department of the investigation of the
33    assault or death under the Nursing Home Care Act. When  there
34    has  been no investigation by the Department, the review team
 
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 1    must review a sexual assault or death within  90  days  after
 2    obtaining  the  information  necessary to complete the review
 3    from the  coroner,  pathologist,  medical  examiner,  or  law
 4    enforcement  agency,  depending  on the nature of the case. A
 5    review team must meet at least once in each calendar quarter.
 6        (d)  Within 90 days after receiving recommendations  made
 7    by  a  review  team  under  item  (5)  of subsection (b), the
 8    Director must review those recommendations and respond to the
 9    review team. The Director shall implement recommendations  as
10    feasible and appropriate and shall respond to the review team
11    in writing to explain the implementation or nonimplementation
12    of the recommendations.
13        (e)  In  any instance when a review team does not operate
14    in accordance with established  protocol,  the  Director,  in
15    consultation and cooperation with the Executive Council, must
16    take  any  necessary  actions  to  bring the review team into
17    compliance with the protocol.

18        Section 25.  Review team access to information.
19        (a)  The Department shall provide to a  review  team,  on
20    the  request  of the review team chairperson, all records and
21    information in the Department's possession that are  relevant
22    to  the  review  team's  review of a sexual assault or death,
23    including records and information concerning previous reports
24    or investigations of suspected abuse or neglect.
25        (b)  A review team shall have access to all  records  and
26    information  that  are  relevant  to  its  review of a sexual
27    assault or death and in the possession of a  State  or  local
28    governmental  agency.  These records and information include,
29    without limitation, death certificates, all relevant  medical
30    and  mental health records, records of law enforcement agency
31    investigations,  records  of  coroner  or  medical   examiner
32    investigations,  records  of  the  Department  of Corrections
33    concerning a person's parole,  records  of  a  probation  and
 
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 1    court  services  department, and records of a social services
 2    agency that provided services to the resident.

 3        Section 30.  Public access to information.
 4        (a)  Meetings of  the  review  teams  and  the  Executive
 5    Council shall be closed to the public. Meetings of the review
 6    teams  and  the Executive Council are not subject to the Open
 7    Meetings Act, as provided in that Act.
 8        (b)  Records and information provided to  a  review  team
 9    and the Executive Council, and records maintained by a review
10    team  or  the  Executive  Council,  are  confidential and not
11    subject to the Freedom of Information  Act,  as  provided  in
12    that  Act.  Nothing contained in this subsection (b) prevents
13    the sharing  or  disclosure  of  records,  other  than  those
14    produced  by a review team or the Executive Council, relating
15    or pertaining to the sexual assault or death of a resident.
16        (c)  Members of a review team and the  Executive  Council
17    are  not  subject  to  examination,  in any civil or criminal
18    proceeding, concerning information presented  to  members  of
19    the  review  team or the Executive Council or opinions formed
20    by members of the review team or the Executive Council  based
21    on  that  information.  A  person  may,  however, be examined
22    concerning information provided  to  a  review  team  or  the
23    Executive Council that is otherwise available to the public.
24        (d)  Records  and  information  produced by a review team
25    and the Executive Council are not  subject  to  discovery  or
26    subpoena  and  are not admissible as evidence in any civil or
27    criminal  proceeding.  Those  records  and  information  are,
28    however,  subject  to  discovery  or  a  subpoena,  and   are
29    admissible  as  evidence,  to  the  extent they are otherwise
30    available to the public.

31        Section 35.  Indemnification. The State  shall  indemnify
32    and  hold harmless members of a review team and the Executive
 
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 1    Council for all their acts, omissions,  decisions,  or  other
 2    conduct  arising  out  of  the  scope of their service on the
 3    review team or  Executive  Council,  except  those  involving
 4    willful   or  wanton  misconduct.  The  method  of  providing
 5    indemnification shall be as provided in  the  State  Employee
 6    Indemnification Act.

 7        Section 40.  Executive Council.
 8        (a)  The   Illinois   Residential  Health  Care  Facility
 9    Resident Sexual Assault  and  Death  Review  Teams  Executive
10    Council,  consisting  of  the chairperson of each review team
11    established  under  Section  15,  is  the  coordinating   and
12    oversight  body for residential health care facility resident
13    sexual assault and  death  review  teams  and  activities  in
14    Illinois.   The   vice-chairperson   of  a  review  team,  as
15    designated by the chairperson, may serve as a back-up  member
16    or  an  alternate  member  of  the  Executive Council, if the
17    chairperson of the review team is unavailable to serve on the
18    Executive Council. The Director may appoint to the  Executive
19    Council any ex-officio members deemed necessary. Persons with
20    expertise  needed  by the Executive Council may be invited to
21    meetings. The Executive Council must select from its  members
22    a chairperson and a vice-chairperson, each to serve a 2-year,
23    renewable  term.  The  Executive Council must meet at least 4
24    times during each calendar year.
25        (b)  The Department must provide or arrange for the staff
26    support necessary for the Executive Council to carry out  its
27    duties.
28        (c)  The  Executive  Council  has, but is not limited to,
29    the following duties:
30             (1)  To serve  as  the  voice  of  review  teams  in
31        Illinois.
32             (2)  To  consult  with  the  Director concerning the
33        appointment, reappointment, and removal  of  review  team
 
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 1        members.
 2             (3)  To  oversee the review teams in order to ensure
 3        that the teams' work is  coordinated  and  in  compliance
 4        with the statutes and the operating protocol.
 5             (4)  To ensure that the data, results, findings, and
 6        recommendations  of  the review teams are adequately used
 7        to  make  any  necessary   changes   in   the   policies,
 8        procedures, and statutes in order to protect nursing home
 9        residents in a timely manner.
10             (5)  To  collaborate  with the General Assembly, the
11        Department,  and  others  in   order   to   develop   any
12        legislation  needed  to  prevent  nursing  home  resident
13        sexual  assaults  and  unnecessary  deaths and to protect
14        nursing home residents.
15             (6)  To assist in the development of  quarterly  and
16        annual  reports based on the work and the findings of the
17        review teams.
18             (7)  To  ensure  that  the  review   teams'   review
19        processes  are  standardized  in  order  to  convey data,
20        findings, and recommendations in a usable format.
21             (8)  To serve as a  link  with  other  review  teams
22        throughout  the  country  and  to participate in national
23        review team activities.
24             (9)  To develop an  annual  statewide  symposium  to
25        update  the  knowledge  and skills of review team members
26        and to promote the exchange of information between review
27        teams.
28             (10)  To provide the  review  teams  with  the  most
29        current information and practices concerning nursing home
30        resident  sexual assault and unnecessary death review and
31        related topics.
32             (11)  To perform any other  functions  necessary  to
33        enhance  the capability of the review teams to reduce and
34        prevent sexual assaults and unnecessary deaths of nursing
 
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 1        home residents.

 2        Section 90.  The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
 3    Section 2 as follows:

 4        (5 ILCS 120/2) (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
 5        Sec. 2.  Open meetings.
 6        (a)  Openness required.  All meetings  of  public  bodies
 7    shall be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c)
 8    and closed in accordance with Section 2a.
 9        (b)  Construction    of   exceptions.    The   exceptions
10    contained  in  subsection  (c)  are  in  derogation  of   the
11    requirement   that  public  bodies  meet  in  the  open,  and
12    therefore, the  exceptions  are  to  be  strictly  construed,
13    extending  only to subjects clearly within their scope.   The
14    exceptions authorize but do not  require  the  holding  of  a
15    closed  meeting  to  discuss  a  subject  included  within an
16    enumerated exception.
17        (c)  Exceptions.  A public body may hold closed  meetings
18    to consider the following subjects:
19             (1)  The   appointment,   employment,  compensation,
20        discipline,  performance,  or   dismissal   of   specific
21        employees of the public body, including hearing testimony
22        on  a  complaint  lodged against an employee to determine
23        its validity.
24             (2)  Collective  negotiating  matters  between   the
25        public  body  and its employees or their representatives,
26        or deliberations concerning salary schedules for  one  or
27        more classes of employees.
28             (3)  The  selection  of  a  person  to fill a public
29        office, as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in  a
30        public  office,  when  the  public body is given power to
31        appoint  under  law  or  ordinance,  or  the  discipline,
32        performance or  removal  of  the  occupant  of  a  public
 
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 1        office, when the public body is given power to remove the
 2        occupant under law or ordinance.
 3             (4)  Evidence   or   testimony   presented  in  open
 4        hearing,  or  in  closed   hearing   where   specifically
 5        authorized  by  law,  to  a  quasi-adjudicative  body, as
 6        defined in this Act, provided that the body prepares  and
 7        makes  available for public inspection a written decision
 8        setting forth its determinative reasoning.
 9             (5)  The purchase or lease of real property for  the
10        use  of  the public body, including meetings held for the
11        purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel  should
12        be acquired.
13             (6)  The  setting  of  a  price for sale or lease of
14        property owned by the public body.
15             (7)  The   sale   or   purchase    of    securities,
16        investments, or investment contracts.
17             (8)  Security  procedures  and  the use of personnel
18        and equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a
19        reasonably potential danger to the safety  of  employees,
20        students, staff or public property.
21             (9)  Student disciplinary cases.
22             (10)  The   placement   of  individual  students  in
23        special education programs and other matters relating  to
24        individual students.
25             (11)  Litigation,  when an action against, affecting
26        or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed
27        and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal,
28        or when the public body finds that an action is  probable
29        or  imminent,  in  which  case  the basis for the finding
30        shall be recorded and entered into  the  minutes  of  the
31        closed meeting.
32             (12)  The establishment of reserves or settlement of
33        claims   as   provided  in  the  Local  Governmental  and
34        Governmental Employees Tort Immunity  Act,  if  otherwise
 
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 1        the  disposition  of  a claim or potential claim might be
 2        prejudiced, or the review or discussion of  claims,  loss
 3        or  risk management information, records, data, advice or
 4        communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
 5        public body  or  any  intergovernmental  risk  management
 6        association  or  self  insurance pool of which the public
 7        body is a member.
 8             (13)  Conciliation of complaints  of  discrimination
 9        in  the  sale  or rental of housing, when closed meetings
10        are authorized by the law or ordinance  prescribing  fair
11        housing   practices   and   creating   a   commission  or
12        administrative agency for their enforcement.
13             (14)  Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
14        undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing,  prior  or
15        future  criminal  investigations,  when  discussed  by  a
16        public body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
17             (15)  Professional   ethics   or   performance  when
18        considered by an advisory  body  appointed  to  advise  a
19        licensing  or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
20        advisory body's field of competence.
21             (16)  Self evaluation, practices and  procedures  or
22        professional  ethics,  when meeting with a representative
23        of a statewide association of which the public body is  a
24        member.
25             (17)  The  recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
26        formal peer review of physicians  or  other  health  care
27        professionals   for  a  hospital,  or  other  institution
28        providing medical care, that is operated  by  the  public
29        body.
30             (18)  Deliberations  for  decisions  of the Prisoner
31        Review Board.
32             (19)  Review or discussion of applications  received
33        under  the  Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
34        Act.
 
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 1             (20)  The classification and discussion  of  matters
 2        classified  as  confidential or continued confidential by
 3        the State Employees Suggestion Award Board.
 4             (21)  Discussion of  minutes  of  meetings  lawfully
 5        closed  under  this Act, whether for purposes of approval
 6        by the body of the minutes or semi-annual review  of  the
 7        minutes as mandated by Section 2.06.
 8             (22)  Deliberations   for  decisions  of  the  State
 9        Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
10             (23)  The operation by a municipality of a municipal
11        utility or the operation of a municipal power  agency  or
12        municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
13        (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
14        of  electricity  or  natural  gas  or (ii) the results or
15        conclusions of load forecast studies.
16             (24)  Meetings of a residential health care facility
17        resident sexual assault and  death  review  team  or  the
18        Residential  Health Care Facility Resident Sexual Assault
19        and  Death  Review  Teams  Executive  Council  under  the
20        Residential Health Care Facility Resident Sexual  Assault
21        and Death Review Team Act.
22        (d)  Definitions.  For purposes of this Section:
23        "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
24    relationship    with   the   public   body   constitutes   an
25    employer-employee relationship under  the  usual  common  law
26    rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
27        "Public  office" means a position created by or under the
28    Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which  is
29    charged  with  the  exercise of some portion of the sovereign
30    power of this State. The term "public office"  shall  include
31    members  of  the  public  body,  but  it  shall  not  include
32    organizational  positions  filled by members thereof, whether
33    established by law or by a public body itself, that exist  to
34    assist the body in the conduct of its business.
 
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 1        "Quasi-adjudicative  body"  means  an administrative body
 2    charged by  law  or  ordinance  with  the  responsibility  to
 3    conduct  hearings,  receive  evidence  or  testimony and make
 4    determinations based thereon,  but  does  not  include  local
 5    electoral  boards  when  such bodies are considering petition
 6    challenges.
 7        (e)  Final action.  No final action may  be  taken  at  a
 8    closed  meeting.  Final  action shall be preceded by a public
 9    recital of the nature of  the  matter  being  considered  and
10    other information that will inform the public of the business
11    being conducted.
12    (Source: P.A. 90-144, eff. 7-23-97; 91-730, eff. 1-1-01.)

13        Section 93.  The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
14    changing Section 7 as follows:

15        (5 ILCS 140/7) (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
16        Sec. 7.  Exemptions.
17        (1)  The  following  shall  be exempt from inspection and
18    copying:
19             (a)  Information   specifically   prohibited    from
20        disclosure   by   federal  or  State  law  or  rules  and
21        regulations adopted under federal or State law.
22             (b)  Information   that,   if    disclosed,    would
23        constitute  a  clearly  unwarranted  invasion of personal
24        privacy, unless the disclosure is consented to in writing
25        by the  individual  subjects  of  the  information.   The
26        disclosure of information that bears on the public duties
27        of public employees and officials shall not be considered
28        an  invasion  of  personal privacy.  Information exempted
29        under this  subsection  (b)  shall  include  but  is  not
30        limited to:
31                  (i)  files  and personal information maintained
32             with  respect  to  clients,   patients,   residents,
 
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 1             students  or  other  individuals  receiving  social,
 2             medical,    educational,    vocational,   financial,
 3             supervisory or custodial care or  services  directly
 4             or   indirectly  from  federal  agencies  or  public
 5             bodies;
 6                  (ii)  personnel files and personal  information
 7             maintained  with respect to employees, appointees or
 8             elected officials of any public body  or  applicants
 9             for those positions;
10                  (iii)  files     and    personal    information
11             maintained with respect to any applicant, registrant
12             or licensee by any public body cooperating  with  or
13             engaged     in    professional    or    occupational
14             registration, licensure or discipline;
15                  (iv)  information required of any  taxpayer  in
16             connection  with the assessment or collection of any
17             tax unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
18             statute; and
19                  (v)  information  revealing  the  identity   of
20             persons   who   file   complaints  with  or  provide
21             information to  administrative,  investigative,  law
22             enforcement  or  penal  agencies; provided, however,
23             that  identification   of   witnesses   to   traffic
24             accidents,  traffic  accident  reports,  and  rescue
25             reports   may  be  provided  by  agencies  of  local
26             government, except in a case for  which  a  criminal
27             investigation  is  ongoing,  without  constituting a
28             clearly unwarranted  per  se  invasion  of  personal
29             privacy under this subsection.
30             (c)  Records   compiled   by  any  public  body  for
31        administrative  enforcement  proceedings  and   any   law
32        enforcement  or  correctional  agency for law enforcement
33        purposes or for internal matters of a  public  body,  but
34        only to the extent that disclosure would:
 
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 1                  (i)  interfere  with  pending  or  actually and
 2             reasonably contemplated law enforcement  proceedings
 3             conducted  by  any  law  enforcement or correctional
 4             agency;
 5                  (ii)  interfere  with  pending   administrative
 6             enforcement  proceedings  conducted  by  any  public
 7             body;
 8                  (iii)  deprive  a  person of a fair trial or an
 9             impartial hearing;
10                  (iv)  unavoidably disclose the  identity  of  a
11             confidential   source  or  confidential  information
12             furnished only by the confidential source;
13                  (v)  disclose     unique     or     specialized
14             investigative techniques other than those  generally
15             used  and  known  or  disclose internal documents of
16             correctional   agencies   related   to    detection,
17             observation  or  investigation of incidents of crime
18             or misconduct;
19                  (vi)  constitute  an   invasion   of   personal
20             privacy under subsection (b) of this Section;
21                  (vii)  endanger  the life or physical safety of
22             law enforcement personnel or any other person; or
23                  (viii)  obstruct    an     ongoing     criminal
24             investigation.
25             (d)  Criminal  history record information maintained
26        by State or local criminal justice agencies,  except  the
27        following  which  shall be open for public inspection and
28        copying:
29                  (i)  chronologically     maintained      arrest
30             information,  such  as  traditional  arrest  logs or
31             blotters;
32                  (ii)  the name of a person in the custody of  a
33             law  enforcement  agency  and  the charges for which
34             that person is being held;
 
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 1                  (iii)  court records that are public;
 2                  (iv)  records  that  are  otherwise   available
 3             under State or local law; or
 4                  (v)  records  in  which the requesting party is
 5             the individual identified, except as provided  under
 6             part  (vii)  of  paragraph  (c) of subsection (1) of
 7             this Section.
 8             "Criminal history  record  information"  means  data
 9        identifiable   to   an   individual   and  consisting  of
10        descriptions  or  notations   of   arrests,   detentions,
11        indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
12        or  other formal events in the criminal justice system or
13        descriptions or notations of criminal charges  (including
14        criminal  violations  of  local municipal ordinances) and
15        the  nature  of  any   disposition   arising   therefrom,
16        including  sentencing, court or correctional supervision,
17        rehabilitation and release.  The term does not  apply  to
18        statistical  records and reports in which individuals are
19        not identified and from which their  identities  are  not
20        ascertainable,  or  to  information  that is for criminal
21        investigative or intelligence purposes.
22             (e)  Records that relate to or affect  the  security
23        of correctional institutions and detention facilities.
24             (f)  Preliminary   drafts,  notes,  recommendations,
25        memoranda  and  other  records  in  which  opinions   are
26        expressed,  or policies or actions are formulated, except
27        that a specific record or relevant portion  of  a  record
28        shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
29        identified  by the head of the public body. The exemption
30        provided in this  paragraph  (f)  extends  to  all  those
31        records  of officers and agencies of the General Assembly
32        that pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
33             (g)  Trade  secrets  and  commercial  or   financial
34        information  obtained from a person or business where the
 
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 1        trade secrets or information are proprietary,  privileged
 2        or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
 3        or  information may cause competitive harm, including all
 4        information determined to be confidential  under  Section
 5        4002  of  the Technology Advancement and Development Act.
 6        Nothing  contained  in  this  paragraph  (g)   shall   be
 7        construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
 8        to disclosure.
 9             (h)  Proposals  and bids for any contract, grant, or
10        agreement,  including  information  which  if   it   were
11        disclosed   would   frustrate   procurement  or  give  an
12        advantage  to  any  person  proposing  to  enter  into  a
13        contractor agreement with the body,  until  an  award  or
14        final  selection is made.  Information prepared by or for
15        the body in preparation of a bid  solicitation  shall  be
16        exempt until an award or final selection is made.
17             (i)  Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
18        designs,  drawings and research data obtained or produced
19        by any public body when disclosure  could  reasonably  be
20        expected to produce private gain or public loss.
21             (j)  Test   questions,   scoring   keys   and  other
22        examination  data  used   to   administer   an   academic
23        examination   or  determined  the  qualifications  of  an
24        applicant for a license or employment.
25             (k)  Architects'  plans  and  engineers'   technical
26        submissions  for projects not constructed or developed in
27        whole or in part  with  public  funds  and  for  projects
28        constructed or developed with public funds, to the extent
29        that disclosure would compromise security.
30             (l)  Library    circulation    and   order   records
31        identifying library users with specific materials.
32             (m)  Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed  to
33        the public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
34        public  body  makes  the  minutes available to the public
 
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 1        under Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
 2             (n)  Communications between a  public  body  and  an
 3        attorney  or  auditor  representing  the public body that
 4        would not be subject  to  discovery  in  litigation,  and
 5        materials prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
 6        anticipation  of  a  criminal,  civil  or  administrative
 7        proceeding  upon  the request of an attorney advising the
 8        public body, and  materials  prepared  or  compiled  with
 9        respect to internal audits of public bodies.
10             (o)  Information  received by a primary or secondary
11        school, college or university under  its  procedures  for
12        the  evaluation  of  faculty  members  by  their academic
13        peers.
14             (p)  Administrative   or    technical    information
15        associated  with  automated  data  processing operations,
16        including  but  not  limited   to   software,   operating
17        protocols,  computer  program  abstracts,  file  layouts,
18        source  listings,  object  modules,  load  modules,  user
19        guides,  documentation  pertaining  to  all  logical  and
20        physical   design   of   computerized  systems,  employee
21        manuals, and any other information  that,  if  disclosed,
22        would  jeopardize  the security of the system or its data
23        or the security of materials exempt under this Section.
24             (q)  Documents or materials relating  to  collective
25        negotiating  matters  between  public  bodies  and  their
26        employees  or  representatives,  except  that  any  final
27        contract  or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
28        copying.
29             (r)  Drafts, notes,  recommendations  and  memoranda
30        pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
31        the  public body. The records of ownership, registration,
32        transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
33        of  persons  to  whom  payment  with  respect  to   these
34        obligations is made.
 
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 1             (s)  The records, documents and information relating
 2        to   real   estate   purchase  negotiations  until  those
 3        negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
 4        With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
 5        and reasonably  contemplated  eminent  domain  proceeding
 6        under  Article  VII  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,
 7        records,  documents  and  information  relating  to  that
 8        parcel  shall  be  exempt  except as may be allowed under
 9        discovery rules adopted by the  Illinois  Supreme  Court.
10        The records, documents and information relating to a real
11        estate sale shall be exempt until a sale is consummated.
12             (t)  Any and all proprietary information and records
13        related  to  the  operation  of an intergovernmental risk
14        management association or self-insurance pool or  jointly
15        self-administered  health  and  accident  cooperative  or
16        pool.
17             (u)  Information     concerning    a    university's
18        adjudication  of  student  or   employee   grievance   or
19        disciplinary  cases,  to the extent that disclosure would
20        reveal the  identity  of  the  student  or  employee  and
21        information  concerning any public body's adjudication of
22        student or employee  grievances  or  disciplinary  cases,
23        except for the final outcome of the cases.
24             (v)  Course  materials or research materials used by
25        faculty members.
26             (w)  Information  related  solely  to  the  internal
27        personnel rules and practices of a public body.
28             (x)  Information  contained   in   or   related   to
29        examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
30        on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
31        for   the   regulation   or   supervision   of  financial
32        institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
33        otherwise required by State law.
34             (y)  Information  the   disclosure   of   which   is
 
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 1        restricted  under  Section  5-108 of the Public Utilities
 2        Act.
 3             (z)  Manuals or instruction to staff that relate  to
 4        establishment  or  collection  of liability for any State
 5        tax or that relate to investigations by a public body  to
 6        determine violation of any criminal law.
 7             (aa)  Applications,  related  documents, and medical
 8        records    received    by    the    Experimental    Organ
 9        Transplantation  Procedures  Board  and   any   and   all
10        documents  or  other records prepared by the Experimental
11        Organ  Transplantation  Procedures  Board  or  its  staff
12        relating to applications it has received.
13             (bb)  Insurance or  self  insurance  (including  any
14        intergovernmental  risk  management  association  or self
15        insurance  pool)  claims,   loss   or   risk   management
16        information, records, data, advice or communications.
17             (cc)  Information and records held by the Department
18        of  Public  Health  and  its  authorized  representatives
19        relating   to   known  or  suspected  cases  of  sexually
20        transmissible disease or any information  the  disclosure
21        of  which  is  restricted  under  the  Illinois  Sexually
22        Transmissible Disease Control Act.
23             (dd)  Information   the   disclosure   of  which  is
24        exempted under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing
25        Act.
26             (ee)  Firm performance evaluations under Section  55
27        of  the  Architectural,  Engineering,  and Land Surveying
28        Qualifications Based Selection Act.
29             (ff)  Security portions  of  system  safety  program
30        plans,  investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists,
31        data, or information compiled, collected, or prepared  by
32        or   for  the  Regional  Transportation  Authority  under
33        Section 2.11 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act
34        or the  St.  Clair  County  Transit  District  under  the
 
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 1        Bi-State Transit Safety Act.
 2             (gg)  Information   the   disclosure   of  which  is
 3        restricted and exempted under Section 50 of the  Illinois
 4        Prepaid Tuition Act.
 5             (hh)  Information   the   disclosure   of  which  is
 6        exempted under Section 80 of the State Gift Ban Act.
 7             (ii)  Beginning July 1, 1999, information that would
 8        disclose or might lead to the  disclosure  of  secret  or
 9        confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs, or
10        private  keys intended to be used to create electronic or
11        digital signatures under the Electronic Commerce Security
12        Act.
13             (jj)  Information contained  in  a  local  emergency
14        energy  plan  submitted  to  a municipality in accordance
15        with a local emergency  energy  plan  ordinance  that  is
16        adopted under Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal
17        Code.
18             (kk)  Information    and    data    concerning   the
19        distribution of surcharge moneys collected  and  remitted
20        by   wireless   carriers  under  the  Wireless  Emergency
21        Telephone Safety Act.
22             (ll)  Records  and   information   provided   to   a
23        residential  health care facility resident sexual assault
24        and death review team  or  the  Residential  Health  Care
25        Facility  Resident  Sexual Assault and Death Review Teams
26        Executive  Council  under  the  Residential  Health  Care
27        Facility Resident Sexual Assault and  Death  Review  Team
28        Act.
29        (2)  This  Section  does  not  authorize  withholding  of
30    information  or  limit  the  availability  of  records to the
31    public,  except  as  stated  in  this  Section  or  otherwise
32    provided in this Act.
33    (Source: P.A. 91-137, eff.  7-16-99;  91-357,  eff.  7-29-99;
34    91-660,  eff.  12-22-99;  92-16,  eff.  6-28-01; 92-241, eff.
 
                            -23-     LRB093 10753 DRJ 11634 b
 1    8-3-01; 92-281, eff. 8-7-01; 92-645,  eff.  7-11-02;  92-651,
 2    eff. 7-11-02.)

 3        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 4    becoming law.