Full Text of SB1624 97th General Assembly
SB1624 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 SB1624 Introduced 2/9/2011, by Sen. Heather A. Steans SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 5 ILCS 120/2 | from Ch. 102, par. 42 | 5 ILCS 140/7 | from Ch. 116, par. 207 | 5 ILCS 140/7.5 | | 210 ILCS 28/30 | | 405 ILCS 82/25 | | 730 ILCS 195/40 | |
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Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that only particular portions of specified meetings under the Abuse Prevention Review
Team Act, Developmental Disability and Mental Health Safety Act, and Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review Team Act (rather than all of the specified meetings under those Acts) may be closed to the public. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that only particular portions (rather than all) of the records and information maintained or provided by certain entities under the Abuse Prevention Review
Team Act, Developmental Disability and Mental Health Safety Act, and Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review Team Act are exempt from disclosure. Amends the Abuse Prevention Review
Team Act, Developmental Disability and Mental Health Safety Act, and Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review Team Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 2 as follows:
| 6 | | (5 ILCS 120/2) (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
| 7 | | Sec. 2. Open meetings.
| 8 | | (a) Openness required. All meetings of public
bodies shall | 9 | | be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c)
and | 10 | | closed in accordance with Section 2a.
| 11 | | (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained | 12 | | in subsection
(c) are in derogation of the requirement that | 13 | | public bodies
meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions | 14 | | are to be strictly
construed, extending only to subjects | 15 | | clearly within their scope.
The exceptions authorize but do not | 16 | | require the holding of
a closed meeting to discuss a subject | 17 | | included within an enumerated exception.
| 18 | | (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to | 19 | | consider the
following subjects:
| 20 | | (1) The appointment, employment, compensation, | 21 | | discipline, performance,
or dismissal of specific | 22 | | employees of the public body or legal counsel for
the | 23 | | public body, including hearing
testimony on a complaint |
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| 1 | | lodged against an employee of the public body or
against | 2 | | legal counsel for the public body to determine its | 3 | | validity.
| 4 | | (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public | 5 | | body and its
employees or their representatives, or | 6 | | deliberations concerning salary
schedules for one or more | 7 | | classes of employees.
| 8 | | (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
| 9 | | as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public | 10 | | office, when the public
body is given power to appoint | 11 | | under law or ordinance, or the discipline,
performance or | 12 | | removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public | 13 | | body
is given power to remove the occupant under law or | 14 | | ordinance.
| 15 | | (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or | 16 | | in closed
hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
| 17 | | a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided | 18 | | that the body
prepares and makes available for public | 19 | | inspection a written decision
setting forth its | 20 | | determinative reasoning.
| 21 | | (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use | 22 | | of
the public body, including meetings held for the purpose | 23 | | of discussing
whether a particular parcel should be | 24 | | acquired.
| 25 | | (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of | 26 | | property owned
by the public body.
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| 1 | | (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or | 2 | | investment
contracts.
| 3 | | (8) Security procedures and the use of personnel and
| 4 | | equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a | 5 | | reasonably
potential danger to the safety of employees, | 6 | | students, staff, the public, or
public
property.
| 7 | | (9) Student disciplinary cases.
| 8 | | (10) The placement of individual students in special | 9 | | education
programs and other matters relating to | 10 | | individual students.
| 11 | | (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or | 12 | | on behalf of the
particular public body has been filed and | 13 | | is pending before a court or
administrative tribunal, or | 14 | | when the public body finds that an action is
probable or | 15 | | imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
| 16 | | recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed | 17 | | meeting.
| 18 | | (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of | 19 | | claims as provided
in the Local Governmental and | 20 | | Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if
otherwise the | 21 | | disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
| 22 | | prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or | 23 | | risk management
information, records, data, advice or | 24 | | communications from or with respect
to any insurer of the | 25 | | public body or any intergovernmental risk management
| 26 | | association or self insurance pool of which the public body |
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| 1 | | is a member.
| 2 | | (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in | 3 | | the sale or rental
of housing, when closed meetings are | 4 | | authorized by the law or ordinance
prescribing fair housing | 5 | | practices and creating a commission or
administrative | 6 | | agency for their enforcement.
| 7 | | (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of | 8 | | undercover personnel
or equipment, or ongoing, prior or | 9 | | future criminal investigations, when
discussed by a public | 10 | | body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
| 11 | | (15) Professional ethics or performance when | 12 | | considered by an advisory
body appointed to advise a | 13 | | licensing or regulatory agency on matters
germane to the | 14 | | advisory body's field of competence.
| 15 | | (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or | 16 | | professional ethics,
when meeting with a representative of | 17 | | a statewide association of which the
public body is a | 18 | | member.
| 19 | | (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or | 20 | | formal peer review
of physicians or other
health care | 21 | | professionals for a hospital, or
other institution | 22 | | providing medical care, that is operated by the public | 23 | | body.
| 24 | | (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner | 25 | | Review Board.
| 26 | | (19) Review or discussion of applications received |
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| 1 | | under the
Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures | 2 | | Act.
| 3 | | (20) The classification and discussion of matters | 4 | | classified as
confidential or continued confidential by | 5 | | the State Government Suggestion Award
Board.
| 6 | | (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed | 7 | | under this Act,
whether for purposes of approval by the | 8 | | body of the minutes or semi-annual
review of the minutes as | 9 | | mandated by Section 2.06.
| 10 | | (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
| 11 | | Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary
Review Board.
| 12 | | (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal | 13 | | utility or the
operation of a
municipal power agency or | 14 | | municipal natural gas agency when the
discussion involves | 15 | | (i) contracts relating to the
purchase, sale, or delivery | 16 | | of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results
or | 17 | | conclusions of load forecast studies.
| 18 | | (24) That portion of a meeting of either a Meetings of | 19 | | a residential health care facility resident sexual
assault | 20 | | and death review
team or
the Executive
Council during which | 21 | | the sexual assault or death of a resident is being | 22 | | investigated or examined under the Abuse Prevention Review
| 23 | | Team Act.
| 24 | | (25) That portion of a meeting of an independent team | 25 | | of experts during which the death of a resident is being | 26 | | investigated or examined under the Developmental |
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| 1 | | Disability and Mental Health Safety Act Meetings of an | 2 | | independent team of experts under Brian's Law . | 3 | | (26) (25) That portion of a meeting of a mortality | 4 | | review team during which the death of a youth is being | 5 | | investigated or examined Meetings of a mortality review | 6 | | team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice | 7 | | Mortality Review Team Act. | 8 | | (27) (25) Confidential information, when discussed by | 9 | | one or more members of an elder abuse fatality review team, | 10 | | designated under Section 15 of the Elder Abuse and Neglect | 11 | | Act, while participating in a review conducted by that team | 12 | | of the death of an elderly person in which abuse or neglect | 13 | | is suspected, alleged, or substantiated; provided that | 14 | | before the review team holds a closed meeting, or closes an | 15 | | open meeting, to discuss the confidential information, | 16 | | each participating review team member seeking to disclose | 17 | | the confidential information in the closed meeting or | 18 | | closed portion of the meeting must state on the record | 19 | | during an open meeting or the open portion of a meeting the | 20 | | nature of the information to be disclosed and the legal | 21 | | basis for otherwise holding that information confidential. | 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.
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| 1 | | "Public office" means a position created by or under the
| 2 | | Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is | 3 | | charged with
the exercise of some portion of the sovereign | 4 | | power of this State. The term
"public office" shall include | 5 | | members of the public body, but it shall not
include | 6 | | organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
| 7 | | established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to | 8 | | assist the
body in the conduct of its business.
| 9 | | "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body | 10 | | charged by law or
ordinance with the responsibility to conduct | 11 | | hearings, receive evidence or
testimony and make | 12 | | determinations based
thereon, but does not include
local | 13 | | electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition | 14 | | challenges.
| 15 | | (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed | 16 | | meeting.
Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of | 17 | | the nature of the
matter being considered and other information | 18 | | that will inform the
public of the business being conducted.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 95-185, eff. 1-1-08; 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11; | 20 | | 96-1378, eff. 7-29-10; 96-1428, eff. 8-11-10; revised 9-2-10.)
| 21 | | Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by | 22 | | changing Sections 7 and 7.5 as follows: | 23 | | (5 ILCS 140/7) (from Ch. 116, par. 207) | 24 | | Sec. 7. Exemptions.
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| 1 | | (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public | 2 | | record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure | 3 | | under this Section, but also contains information that is not | 4 | | exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the | 5 | | information that is exempt. The public body shall make the | 6 | | remaining information available for inspection and copying. | 7 | | Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from | 8 | | inspection and copying:
| 9 | | (a) Information specifically prohibited from | 10 | | disclosure by federal or
State law or rules and regulations | 11 | | implementing federal or State law.
| 12 | | (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required | 13 | | by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or | 14 | | a court order. | 15 | | (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases | 16 | | maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and | 17 | | specifically designed to provide information to one or more | 18 | | law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental | 19 | | status of one or more individual subjects. | 20 | | (c) Personal information contained within public | 21 | | records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
| 22 | | unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the | 23 | | disclosure is
consented to in writing by the individual | 24 | | subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of | 25 | | personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that | 26 | | is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person |
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| 1 | | and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any | 2 | | legitimate public interest in obtaining the information. | 3 | | The
disclosure of information that bears on the public | 4 | | duties of public
employees and officials shall not be | 5 | | considered an invasion of personal
privacy.
| 6 | | (d) Records in the possession of any public body | 7 | | created in the course of administrative enforcement
| 8 | | proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional | 9 | | agency for
law enforcement purposes,
but only to the extent | 10 | | that disclosure would:
| 11 | | (i) interfere with pending or actually and | 12 | | reasonably contemplated
law enforcement proceedings | 13 | | conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
| 14 | | agency that is the recipient of the request;
| 15 | | (ii) interfere with active administrative | 16 | | enforcement proceedings
conducted by the public body | 17 | | that is the recipient of the request;
| 18 | | (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a | 19 | | person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial | 20 | | hearing;
| 21 | | (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a | 22 | | confidential source, confidential information | 23 | | furnished only by the confidential source, or persons | 24 | | who file complaints with or provide information to | 25 | | administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or | 26 | | penal agencies; except that the identities of |
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| 1 | | witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident | 2 | | reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by | 3 | | agencies of local government, except when disclosure | 4 | | would interfere with an active criminal investigation | 5 | | conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the | 6 | | request;
| 7 | | (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative | 8 | | techniques other than
those generally used and known or | 9 | | disclose internal documents of
correctional agencies | 10 | | related to detection, observation or investigation of
| 11 | | incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would | 12 | | result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public | 13 | | body that is the recipient of the request;
| 14 | | (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law | 15 | | enforcement personnel
or any other person; or
| 16 | | (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation | 17 | | by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
| 18 | | (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of | 19 | | correctional
institutions and detention facilities.
| 20 | | (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations, | 21 | | memoranda and other
records in which opinions are | 22 | | expressed, or policies or actions are
formulated, except | 23 | | that a specific record or relevant portion of a
record | 24 | | shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited
and | 25 | | identified by the head of the public body. The exemption | 26 | | provided in
this paragraph (f) extends to all those records |
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| 1 | | of officers and agencies
of the General Assembly that | 2 | | pertain to the preparation of legislative
documents.
| 3 | | (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial | 4 | | information obtained from
a person or business where the | 5 | | trade secrets or commercial or financial information are | 6 | | furnished under a claim that they are
proprietary, | 7 | | privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the | 8 | | trade
secrets or commercial or financial information would | 9 | | cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only | 10 | | insofar as the claim directly applies to the records | 11 | | requested. | 12 | | The information included under this exemption includes | 13 | | all trade secrets and commercial or financial information | 14 | | obtained by a public body, including a public pension fund, | 15 | | from a private equity fund or a privately held company | 16 | | within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund as | 17 | | a result of either investing or evaluating a potential | 18 | | investment of public funds in a private equity fund. The | 19 | | exemption contained in this item does not apply to the | 20 | | aggregate financial performance information of a private | 21 | | equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or | 22 | | general partners. The exemption contained in this item does | 23 | | not apply to the identity of a privately held company | 24 | | within the investment portfolio of a private equity fund, | 25 | | unless the disclosure of the identity of a privately held | 26 | | company may cause competitive harm. |
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| 1 | | Nothing contained in this
paragraph (g) shall be | 2 | | construed to prevent a person or business from
consenting | 3 | | to disclosure.
| 4 | | (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or | 5 | | agreement, including
information which if it were | 6 | | disclosed would frustrate procurement or give
an advantage | 7 | | to any person proposing to enter into a contractor | 8 | | agreement
with the body, until an award or final selection | 9 | | is made. Information
prepared by or for the body in | 10 | | preparation of a bid solicitation shall be
exempt until an | 11 | | award or final selection is made.
| 12 | | (i) Valuable formulae,
computer geographic systems,
| 13 | | designs, drawings and research data obtained or
produced by | 14 | | any public body when disclosure could reasonably be | 15 | | expected to
produce private gain or public loss.
The | 16 | | exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in | 17 | | this paragraph
(i) does not extend to requests made by news | 18 | | media as defined in Section 2 of
this Act when the | 19 | | requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
| 20 | | purpose of the request is to access and disseminate | 21 | | information regarding the
health, safety, welfare, or | 22 | | legal rights of the general public.
| 23 | | (j) The following information pertaining to | 24 | | educational matters: | 25 | | (i) test questions, scoring keys and other | 26 | | examination data used to
administer an academic |
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| 1 | | examination;
| 2 | | (ii) information received by a primary or | 3 | | secondary school, college, or university under its | 4 | | procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by | 5 | | their academic peers; | 6 | | (iii) information concerning a school or | 7 | | university's adjudication of student disciplinary | 8 | | cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would | 9 | | unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and | 10 | | (iv) course materials or research materials used | 11 | | by faculty members. | 12 | | (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical | 13 | | submissions, and
other
construction related technical | 14 | | documents for
projects not constructed or developed in | 15 | | whole or in part with public funds
and the same for | 16 | | projects constructed or developed with public funds, | 17 | | including but not limited to power generating and | 18 | | distribution stations and other transmission and | 19 | | distribution facilities, water treatment facilities, | 20 | | airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers, | 21 | | and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings, | 22 | | but
only to the extent
that disclosure would compromise | 23 | | security.
| 24 | | (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
| 25 | | public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the | 26 | | public body
makes the minutes available to the public under |
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| 1 | | Section 2.06 of the Open
Meetings Act.
| 2 | | (m) Communications between a public body and an | 3 | | attorney or auditor
representing the public body that would | 4 | | not be subject to discovery in
litigation, and materials | 5 | | 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 | | (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of | 11 | | employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this | 12 | | exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in | 13 | | which discipline is imposed.
| 14 | | (o) Administrative or technical information associated | 15 | | with automated
data processing operations, including but | 16 | | not limited to software,
operating protocols, computer | 17 | | program abstracts, file layouts, source
listings, object | 18 | | modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
| 19 | | pertaining to all logical and physical design of | 20 | | computerized systems,
employee manuals, and any other | 21 | | information that, if disclosed, would
jeopardize the | 22 | | security of the system or its data or the security of
| 23 | | materials exempt under this Section.
| 24 | | (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
| 25 | | between public bodies and their employees or | 26 | | representatives, except that
any final contract or |
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| 1 | | agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
| 2 | | (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other | 3 | | examination data used to determine the qualifications of an | 4 | | applicant for a license or employment.
| 5 | | (r) The records, documents, and information relating | 6 | | to real estate
purchase negotiations until those | 7 | | negotiations have been completed or
otherwise terminated. | 8 | | With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or
actually | 9 | | and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding | 10 | | under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
| 11 | | information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except | 12 | | as may be
allowed under discovery rules adopted by the | 13 | | Illinois Supreme Court. The
records, documents and | 14 | | information relating to a real estate sale shall be
exempt | 15 | | until a sale is consummated.
| 16 | | (s) Any and all proprietary information and records | 17 | | related to the
operation of an intergovernmental risk | 18 | | management association or
self-insurance pool or jointly | 19 | | self-administered health and accident
cooperative or pool.
| 20 | | Insurance or self insurance (including any | 21 | | intergovernmental risk management association or self | 22 | | insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management | 23 | | information, records, data, advice or communications.
| 24 | | (t) Information contained in or related to | 25 | | examination, operating, or
condition reports prepared by, | 26 | | on behalf of, or for the use of a public
body responsible |
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| 1 | | for the regulation or supervision of financial
| 2 | | institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is | 3 | | otherwise
required by State law.
| 4 | | (u) Information that would disclose
or might lead to | 5 | | the disclosure of
secret or confidential information, | 6 | | codes, algorithms, programs, or private
keys intended to be | 7 | | used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
| 8 | | Electronic Commerce Security Act.
| 9 | | (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and | 10 | | response policies
or plans that are designed to identify, | 11 | | prevent, or respond to potential
attacks upon a community's | 12 | | population or systems, facilities, or installations,
the | 13 | | destruction or contamination of which would constitute a | 14 | | clear and present
danger to the health or safety of the | 15 | | community, but only to the extent that
disclosure could | 16 | | reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of | 17 | | the
measures or the safety of the personnel who implement | 18 | | them or the public.
Information exempt under this item may | 19 | | include such things as details
pertaining to the | 20 | | mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to | 21 | | the
operation of communication systems or protocols, or to | 22 | | tactical operations.
| 23 | | (w) (Blank). | 24 | | (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or | 25 | | security of generation, transmission, distribution, | 26 | | storage, gathering,
treatment, or switching facilities |
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| 1 | | owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the | 2 | | Illinois Power Agency.
| 3 | | (y) Information contained in or related to proposals, | 4 | | bids, or negotiations related to electric power | 5 | | procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency | 6 | | Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that | 7 | | is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the | 8 | | Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce | 9 | | Commission.
| 10 | | (z) Information about students exempted from | 11 | | disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the | 12 | | School Code, and information about undergraduate students | 13 | | enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted | 14 | | from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit | 15 | | Card Marketing Act of 2009. | 16 | | (aa) Information the disclosure of which is
exempted | 17 | | under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
| 18 | | (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality | 19 | | review team and records maintained by a mortality review | 20 | | team that pertain to the investigation and examination, | 21 | | appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice | 22 | | Mortality Review Team Act , of the death of any youth . | 23 | | (cc) (bb) Information regarding interments, | 24 | | entombments, or inurnments of human remains that are | 25 | | submitted to the Cemetery Oversight Database under the | 26 | | Cemetery Care Act or the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever |
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| 1 | | is applicable. | 2 | | (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a | 3 | | public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the | 4 | | agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on | 5 | | behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the | 6 | | governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this | 7 | | Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body, | 8 | | for purposes of this Act. | 9 | | (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of | 10 | | information or limit the
availability of records to the public, | 11 | | except as stated in this Section or
otherwise provided in this | 12 | | Act.
| 13 | | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07; | 14 | | 95-941, eff. 8-29-08; 95-988, eff. 6-1-09; 96-261, eff. 1-1-10; | 15 | | 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10; | 16 | | 96-736, eff. 7-1-10; 96-863, eff. 3-1-10; 96-1378, eff. | 17 | | 7-29-10; revised 9-2-10.) | 18 | | (5 ILCS 140/7.5) | 19 | | Sec. 7.5. Statutory Exemptions. To the extent provided for | 20 | | by the statutes referenced below, the following shall be exempt | 21 | | from inspection and copying: | 22 | | (a) All information determined to be confidential under | 23 | | Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and Development Act. | 24 | | (b) Library circulation and order records identifying | 25 | | library users with specific materials under the Library Records |
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| 1 | | Confidentiality Act. | 2 | | (c) Applications, related documents, and medical records | 3 | | received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures | 4 | | Board and any and all documents or other records prepared by | 5 | | the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures Board or its | 6 | | staff relating to applications it has received. | 7 | | (d) Information and records held by the Department of | 8 | | Public Health and its authorized representatives relating to | 9 | | known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible disease or | 10 | | any information the disclosure of which is restricted under the | 11 | | Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act. | 12 | | (e) Information the disclosure of which is exempted under | 13 | | Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act. | 14 | | (f) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of the | 15 | | Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying Qualifications | 16 | | Based Selection Act. | 17 | | (g) Information the disclosure of which is restricted and | 18 | | exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Act. | 19 | | (h) Information the disclosure of which is exempted under | 20 | | the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, and records of | 21 | | any lawfully created State or local inspector general's office | 22 | | that would be exempt if created or obtained by an Executive | 23 | | Inspector General's office under that Act. | 24 | | (i) Information contained in a local emergency energy plan | 25 | | submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local | 26 | | emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under Section |
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| 1 | | 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code. | 2 | | (j) Information and data concerning the distribution of | 3 | | surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless carriers | 4 | | under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act. | 5 | | (k) Law enforcement officer identification information or | 6 | | driver identification information compiled by a law | 7 | | enforcement agency or the Department of Transportation under | 8 | | Section 11-212 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. | 9 | | (l) Records and information provided to a residential | 10 | | health care facility resident sexual assault and death review | 11 | | team or the Executive Council that pertain to the investigation | 12 | | and examination, under the Abuse Prevention Review Team Act , of | 13 | | the sexual assault or death of any resident . | 14 | | (m) Information provided to the predatory lending database | 15 | | created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential Real Property | 16 | | Disclosure Act, except to the extent authorized under that | 17 | | Article. | 18 | | (n) Defense budgets and petitions for certification of | 19 | | compensation and expenses for court appointed trial counsel as | 20 | | provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital Crimes | 21 | | Litigation Act. This subsection (n) shall apply until the | 22 | | conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the prosecution | 23 | | chooses not to pursue the death penalty prior to trial or | 24 | | sentencing. | 25 | | (o) Information that is prohibited from being disclosed | 26 | | under Section 4 of the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances |
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| 1 | | Registry Act. | 2 | | (p) Security portions of system safety program plans, | 3 | | investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or | 4 | | information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the | 5 | | Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of the | 6 | | Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair County | 7 | | Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety Act. | 8 | | (q) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the | 9 | | Personnel Records Review Act. | 10 | | (r) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the | 11 | | Illinois School Student Records Act. | 12 | | (s) Information the disclosure of which is restricted under | 13 | | Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
| 14 | | (t) All identified or deidentified health information in | 15 | | the form of health data or medical records contained in, stored | 16 | | in, submitted to, transferred by, or released from the Illinois | 17 | | Health Information Exchange, and identified or deidentified | 18 | | health information in the form of health data and medical | 19 | | records of the Illinois Health Information Exchange in the | 20 | | possession of the Illinois Health Information Exchange | 21 | | Authority due to its administration of the Illinois Health | 22 | | Information Exchange. The terms "identified" and | 23 | | "deidentified" shall be given the same meaning as in the Health | 24 | | Insurance Accountability and Portability Act of 1996, Public | 25 | | Law 104-191, or any subsequent amendments thereto, and any | 26 | | regulations promulgated thereunder. |
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| 1 | | (u) (t) Records and information provided to an independent | 2 | | team of experts that pertain to the investigation and | 3 | | examination, under the Developmental Disability and Mental | 4 | | Health Safety Act, of the death of any resident under Brian's | 5 | | Law . | 6 | | (Source: P.A. 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11; | 7 | | 96-1331, eff. 7-27-10; revised 9-2-10.) | 8 | | Section 15. The Abuse Prevention Review Team Act is amended | 9 | | by changing Section 30 as follows:
| 10 | | (210 ILCS 28/30)
| 11 | | Sec. 30. Public access to information.
| 12 | | (a) Meetings of the review
teams and the Executive Council | 13 | | shall be closed to the public pursuant to paragraph (24) of | 14 | | subsection (c) of Section 2 of the Open Meetings Act . Meetings | 15 | | of the
review teams and the Executive Council are not subject | 16 | | to the Open Meetings
Act, as provided in that Act.
| 17 | | (b) Records and information provided to a
review team and | 18 | | the Executive Council, and records
maintained by a review team | 19 | | or the Executive Council, are confidential pursuant to | 20 | | subsection (l) of Section 7.5 of the Freedom of Information Act | 21 | | and not
subject
to the Freedom of Information Act, as provided | 22 | | in that Act .
Nothing contained in this subsection (b) prevents | 23 | | the sharing or disclosure of
records, other than those produced | 24 | | by a review team or the
Executive Council, relating or |
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| 1 | | pertaining to the sexual assault or death of a
resident.
| 2 | | (c) Members of a review team
and the Executive Council are | 3 | | not subject to examination, in any civil or
criminal
| 4 | | proceeding, concerning information presented to members of the | 5 | | review team or
the
Executive Council or opinions formed by | 6 | | members of the review team or the
Executive
Council based on | 7 | | that information. A person may, however, be examined
concerning | 8 | | information provided to a review team or the Executive Council | 9 | | that
is
otherwise available to the public.
| 10 | | (d) Records and information produced by a
review team and | 11 | | the Executive Council (other than records and information that | 12 | | are produced by a
review team and the Executive Council and may | 13 | | be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act) are not | 14 | | subject to
discovery or subpoena and are not admissible as | 15 | | evidence in any civil or
criminal
proceeding. Those records and | 16 | | information are, however, subject to discovery or
a subpoena, | 17 | | and are admissible as evidence, to the extent they are | 18 | | otherwise
available to the public.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 93-577, eff. 8-21-03 .)
| 20 | | Section 20. The Developmental Disability and Mental Health | 21 | | Safety Act (aka Brian's Law) is amended by changing Section 25 | 22 | | as follows: | 23 | | (405 ILCS 82/25)
| 24 | | Sec. 25. Public access to and confidentiality of |
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| 1 | | information. | 2 | | (a) Meetings of the independent team of experts shall be | 3 | | closed to the public pursuant to paragraph (25) of subsection | 4 | | (c) of Section 2 of the Open Meetings Act . | 5 | | (b) Records and information provided to the independent | 6 | | team of experts are confidential pursuant to subsection (u) of | 7 | | Section 7.5 of the Freedom of Information Act . Nothing | 8 | | contained in this subsection (b) prevents the sharing or | 9 | | disclosure of records, other than those produced by the | 10 | | independent team, relating or pertaining to the death of an | 11 | | individual. | 12 | | (c) Members of the independent team of experts are not | 13 | | subject to examination, in any civil or criminal proceeding, | 14 | | concerning information presented to members of the team or | 15 | | opinions formed by members of the team based on that | 16 | | information. A person may, however, be examined concerning | 17 | | information provided to the team that is otherwise available to | 18 | | the public. | 19 | | (d) Records and information produced by the team (other | 20 | | than records and information that are produced by the team and | 21 | | may be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act) are not | 22 | | subject to discovery or subpoena and are not admissible as | 23 | | evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding. Those records and | 24 | | information are, however, subject to discovery or a subpoena, | 25 | | and are admissible as evidence to the extent they are otherwise | 26 | | available to the public.
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1235, eff. 1-1-11.) | 2 | | Section 25. The Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality | 3 | | Review Team Act is amended by changing Section 40 as follows: | 4 | | (730 ILCS 195/40)
| 5 | | Sec. 40. Public access to information. | 6 | | (a) Meetings of a mortality review team shall be closed to | 7 | | the public pursuant to paragraph (26) of subsection (c) of | 8 | | Section 2 of the Open Meetings Act. . Meetings of the mortality | 9 | | review teams are not subject to the Open Meetings Act, as | 10 | | provided in that Act.
| 11 | | (b) Records and information provided to a mortality review | 12 | | team and records maintained by a team are confidential and not | 13 | | subject to inspection and copying pursuant to paragraph (bb) of | 14 | | subsection (l) of Section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act. | 15 | | under the Freedom of Information Act, as provided in that Act.
| 16 | | (c) Members of a mortality review team are not subject to | 17 | | examination, in any civil or criminal proceeding, concerning | 18 | | information presented to members of the team or opinions formed | 19 | | by members of the team based on that information. A team member | 20 | | may, however, be examined concerning information provided to | 21 | | the team that is otherwise available to the public.
| 22 | | (d) Records and information produced by a mortality review | 23 | | team (other than records and information that are produced by | 24 | | the team and may be disclosed under the Freedom of Information |
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| 1 | | Act) are not subject to discovery or subpoena and are not | 2 | | admissible as evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding. | 3 | | Those records and information are, however, subject to | 4 | | discovery or a subpoena, and are admissible as evidence, to the | 5 | | extent they are otherwise available to the public.
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1378, eff. 7-29-10.)
| 7 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 8 | | becoming law.
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