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20 ILCS 2635/5

(20 ILCS 2635/5) (from Ch. 38, par. 1605)

Sec. 5. Public availability of conviction information.

All
conviction information mandated by statute to be collected and maintained
by the Illinois State Police shall be open to public inspection in the
State of Illinois.  All persons, state agencies and units of local
government shall have access to inspect, examine and reproduce such
information, in accordance with this Act, and shall have the right to take
memoranda and abstracts concerning such information, except to the extent
that the provisions of this Act or other Illinois statutes might create
specific restrictions on the use or disclosure of such information.

(Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)