750 ILCS 62/5

(750 ILCS 62/5)

Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"Board" means the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Board.

"Case eligible for review" means the case based upon a qualifying relationship that the regional review teams can review under Section 70.

"Confidential information" means:

(1) oral, written, digital, or electronic original or copied information, records, documents, photographs, images, exhibits, or communications (i) obtained by the Board, the Statewide Committee, or a regional review team from a public body for the purpose of addressing whether a case should be reviewed or for review of an eligible case under this Act while in the possession of the Board, Statewide Committee, or regional review team or (ii) in the possession of, provided to, obtained by, shared with, discussed by, created by, or maintained by the Board, the Statewide Committee, or a regional review team for the purpose of addressing whether a case should be reviewed or for review of an eligible case;

(2) any information that may be in the possession of the Board, Statewide Committee, or a regional review team that discloses the identities of victims, survivors, deceased, or offenders, or their family members, or by which their identities can be determined by a reasonably diligent inquiry; and

(3) any discussions, deliberations, minutes, notes, records, or opinions of the members of the Board, Statewide Committee, or a regional review team with regard to a case eligible for review to determine whether the case should be reviewed or a review of an eligible case. Confidential information does not mean nonidentifying or aggregate data information or analysis of data, and recommendations for community and systemic reform.

"Deceased" means anyone who died in connection with the actions of the offender, other than the victim, survivor, or offender.

"Domestic violence" means abuse as it is defined in Section 103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 and paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of Section 112A-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963.

"Domestic violence fatality review" means the deliberative process of multiagency and multidisciplinary teams that select eligible cases of domestic violence related fatalities and near-fatalities, and trace prior systemic interventions and involvement to:

(1) examine barriers to safety, justice, self-determination, and equity;

(2) identify systemic and community gaps and consider alternate and more effective systemic responses; and

(3) develop recommendations for greater coordinated and improved community and systemic response and prevention initiatives to domestic violence in order to reduce the occurrence, frequency, and severity of domestic violence and prevent fatalities and near-fatalities.

"Familicide" means the killing of a family, including one or both parents and any children, by a family member.

"Fatality" means death caused by suicide or homicide.

"Near-fatality" means a death that nearly occurred by means of suicide or homicide, or an injury that could have resulted in death.

"Offender" means the person who inflicted domestic violence upon the victim and caused the victim's death, or the person who inflicted domestic violence upon a survivor. "Offender" includes a person who is deceased or alive, and is not required to have been the subject of a criminal investigation or prosecution.

"Regional domestic violence fatality review team" or "regional review team" means a multiagency and multidisciplinary team that selects and reviews eligible cases in accordance with Section 45.

"Statewide Committee" means the Ad Hoc Statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Board.

"Survivor" means a person who experienced domestic violence and is alive.

"Victim" means the person who experienced domestic violence and is deceased, including by means of homicide or suicide.

(Source: P.A. 102-520, eff. 8-20-21.)