100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5941

 

Introduced , by Rep. Christine Winger - Fred Crespo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 120/2  from Ch. 102, par. 42
5 ILCS 140/7  from Ch. 116, par. 207
105 ILCS 10/6  from Ch. 122, par. 50-6
105 ILCS 128/20
105 ILCS 128/45 new

    Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Requires schools to conduct a law enforcement drill to address a school shooting incident within 90 days after the beginning of each academic year (instead of conducting it during each academic year). Requires all school boards of school districts to develop threat assessment protocols and to create threat assessment teams. Provides that the threat assessment team shall include specified personnel and other members. Provides that a threat assessment protocol adopted by the school board shall be a public document and be posted on the school district's website. Provides that a school board shall create the threat assessment team within 30 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act and adopt an initial threat assessment protocol within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that a school district may share information concerning a clear and present danger with another school district and creates a conforming exemption in the Illinois School Student Records Act. Creates exemptions for the work of the threat assessment team in the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5Section 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
9be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
10closed in accordance with Section 2a.
11    (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
12in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
13public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
14are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
15clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do not
16require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a subject
17included within an enumerated exception.
18    (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
19consider 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. However, a meeting to consider an increase in
4    compensation to a specific employee of a public body that
5    is subject to the Local Government Wage Increase
6    Transparency Act may not be closed and shall be open to the
7    public and posted and held in accordance with this Act.
8        (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
9    body and its employees or their representatives, or
10    deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
11    classes of employees.
12        (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,
13    as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
14    office, when the public body is given power to appoint
15    under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
16    removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public
17    body is given power to remove the occupant under law or
18    ordinance.
19        (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or
20    in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
21    a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided
22    that the body prepares and makes available for public
23    inspection a written decision setting forth its
24    determinative reasoning.
25        (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
26    of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose

 

 

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1    of discussing whether a particular parcel should be
2    acquired.
3        (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
4    property owned by the public body.
5        (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or
6    investment contracts. This exception shall not apply to the
7    investment of assets or income of funds deposited into the
8    Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund.
9        (8) Security procedures, school building safety and
10    security, and the use of personnel and equipment to respond
11    to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably potential
12    danger to the safety of employees, students, staff, the
13    public, or public property.
14        (9) Student disciplinary cases.
15        (10) The placement of individual students in special
16    education programs and other matters relating to
17    individual students.
18        (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
19    on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
20    is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
21    when the public body finds that an action is probable or
22    imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
23    recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
24    meeting.
25        (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
26    claims as provided in the Local Governmental and

 

 

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1    Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
2    disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
3    prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
4    risk management information, records, data, advice or
5    communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
6    public body or any intergovernmental risk management
7    association or self insurance pool of which the public body
8    is a member.
9        (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
10    the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
11    authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair housing
12    practices and creating a commission or administrative
13    agency for their enforcement.
14        (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
15    undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or
16    future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
17    body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
18        (15) Professional ethics or performance when
19    considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
20    licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
21    advisory body's field of competence.
22        (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
23    professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
24    a statewide association of which the public body is a
25    member.
26        (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or

 

 

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1    formal peer review of physicians or other health care
2    professionals, or for the discussion of matters protected
3    under the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
4    Act of 2005, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
5    including 42 C.F.R. Part 3 (73 FR 70732), or the federal
6    Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
7    1996, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
8    including 45 C.F.R. Parts 160, 162, and 164, by a hospital,
9    or other institution providing medical care, that is
10    operated by the public body.
11        (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
12    Review Board.
13        (19) Review or discussion of applications received
14    under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
15    Act.
16        (20) The classification and discussion of matters
17    classified as confidential or continued confidential by
18    the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
19        (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
20    under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
21    body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as
22    mandated by Section 2.06.
23        (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
24    Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
25        (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
26    utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or

 

 

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1    municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
2    (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
3    of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
4    conclusions of load forecast studies.
5        (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
6    resident sexual assault and death review team or the
7    Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team
8    Act.
9        (25) Meetings of an independent team of experts under
10    Brian's Law.
11        (26) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed
12    under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
13    Team Act.
14        (27) (Blank).
15        (28) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
16    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
17    Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
18    the Illinois Public Aid Code.
19        (29) Meetings between internal or external auditors
20    and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and
21    their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal
22    control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk
23    areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews
24    conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing
25    standards of the United States of America.
26        (30) Those meetings or portions of meetings of a

 

 

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1    fatality review team or the Illinois Fatality Review Team
2    Advisory Council during which a review of the death of an
3    eligible adult in which abuse or neglect is suspected,
4    alleged, or substantiated is conducted pursuant to Section
5    15 of the Adult Protective Services Act.
6        (31) Meetings and deliberations for decisions of the
7    Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board under the Firearm
8    Concealed Carry Act.
9        (32) Meetings between the Regional Transportation
10    Authority Board and its Service Boards when the discussion
11    involves review by the Regional Transportation Authority
12    Board of employment contracts under Section 28d of the
13    Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and Sections 3A.18 and
14    3B.26 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act.
15        (33) Those meetings or portions of meetings of the
16    advisory committee and peer review subcommittee created
17    under Section 320 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act
18    during which specific controlled substance prescriber,
19    dispenser, or patient information is discussed.
20        (34) Meetings of the Tax Increment Financing Reform
21    Task Force under Section 2505-800 of the Department of
22    Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
23        (35) Meetings concerning the work of the threat
24    assessment team of a school district.
25    (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
26    "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose

 

 

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1relationship with the public body constitutes an
2employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
3rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
4    "Public office" means a position created by or under the
5Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
6charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
7power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
8members of the public body, but it shall not include
9organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
10established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
11assist the body in the conduct of its business.
12    "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
13charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
14hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
15determinations based thereon, but does not include local
16electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
17challenges.
18    (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
19meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
20the nature of the matter being considered and other information
21that will inform the public of the business being conducted.
22(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-235, eff. 1-1-16; 99-480,
23eff. 9-9-15; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16; 99-646, eff. 7-28-16;
2499-687, eff. 1-1-17; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 100-465, eff.
258-31-17.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
2changing Section 7 as follows:
 
3    (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
4    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
5    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
6record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
7under this Section, but also contains information that is not
8exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
9information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
10remaining information available for inspection and copying.
11Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
12inspection and copying:
13        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
14    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
15    implementing federal or State law.
16        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
17    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
18    a court order.
19        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
20    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
21    specifically designed to provide information to one or more
22    law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
23    status of one or more individual subjects.
24        (c) Personal information contained within public
25    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly

 

 

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1    unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
2    disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
3    subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
4    personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
5    is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
6    and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
7    legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
8    The disclosure of information that bears on the public
9    duties of public employees and officials shall not be
10    considered an invasion of personal privacy.
11        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
12    created in the course of administrative enforcement
13    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
14    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
15    that disclosure would:
16            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
17        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
18        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
19        agency that is the recipient of the request;
20            (ii) interfere with active administrative
21        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
22        that is the recipient of the request;
23            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
24        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
25        hearing;
26            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a

 

 

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1        confidential source, confidential information
2        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
3        who file complaints with or provide information to
4        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
5        penal agencies; except that the identities of
6        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
7        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
8        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
9        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
10        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
11        request;
12            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
13        techniques other than those generally used and known or
14        disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
15        related to detection, observation or investigation of
16        incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
17        result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
18        body that is the recipient of the request;
19            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
20        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
21            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
22        by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
23        (d-5) A law enforcement record created for law
24    enforcement purposes and contained in a shared electronic
25    record management system if the law enforcement agency that
26    is the recipient of the request did not create the record,

 

 

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1    did not participate in or have a role in any of the events
2    which are the subject of the record, and only has access to
3    the record through the shared electronic record management
4    system.
5        (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
6    correctional institutions and detention facilities.
7        (e-5) Records requested by persons committed to the
8    Department of Corrections or a county jail if those
9    materials are available in the library of the correctional
10    facility or jail where the inmate is confined.
11        (e-6) Records requested by persons committed to the
12    Department of Corrections or a county jail if those
13    materials include records from staff members' personnel
14    files, staff rosters, or other staffing assignment
15    information.
16        (e-7) Records requested by persons committed to the
17    Department of Corrections if those materials are available
18    through an administrative request to the Department of
19    Corrections.
20        (e-8) Records requested by a person committed to the
21    Department of Corrections or a county jail, the disclosure
22    of which would result in the risk of harm to any person or
23    the risk of an escape from a jail or correctional
24    institution or facility.
25        (e-9) Records requested by a person in a county jail or
26    committed to the Department of Corrections containing

 

 

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1    personal information pertaining to the person's victim or
2    the victim's family, including, but not limited to, a
3    victim's home address, home telephone number, work or
4    school address, work telephone number, social security
5    number, or any other identifying information, except as may
6    be relevant to a requester's current or potential case or
7    claim.
8        (e-10) Law enforcement records of other persons
9    requested by a person committed to the Department of
10    Corrections or a county jail, including, but not limited
11    to, arrest and booking records, mug shots, and crime scene
12    photographs, except as these records may be relevant to the
13    requester's current or potential case or claim.
14        (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
15    memoranda and other records in which opinions are
16    expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
17    that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
18    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
19    identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
20    provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
21    of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
22    pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
23        (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
24    information obtained from a person or business where the
25    trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
26    furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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1    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
2    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
3    and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
4    under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
5    information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
6    as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
7    Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
8    information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
9    until a sale is consummated.
10        (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
11    related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
12    management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
13    self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
14    Insurance or self insurance (including any
15    intergovernmental risk management association or self
16    insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
17    information, records, data, advice or communications.
18        (t) Information contained in or related to
19    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
20    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
21    for the regulation or supervision of financial
22    institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
23    otherwise required by State law.
24        (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
25    the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
26    codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be

 

 

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1    used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
2    Electronic Commerce Security Act.
3        (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
4    response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
5    prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
6    population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
7    destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
8    clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
9    community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
10    reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
11    the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
12    them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
13    include such things as details pertaining to the
14    mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
15    the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
16    tactical operations.
17        (w) (Blank).
18        (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
19    security of generation, transmission, distribution,
20    storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
21    owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
22    Illinois Power Agency.
23        (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
24    bids, or negotiations related to electric power
25    procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
26    Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that

 

 

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1    is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
2    Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
3    Commission.
4        (z) Information about students exempted from
5    disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
6    School Code, and information about undergraduate students
7    enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
8    from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
9    Card Marketing Act of 2009.
10        (aa) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
11    under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
12        (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
13    review team and records maintained by a mortality review
14    team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
15    Mortality Review Team Act.
16        (cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
17    inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
18    Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
19    the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.
20        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be
21    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Illinois Public Aid
22    Code or (ii) that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of
23    the Illinois Public Aid Code.
24        (ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
25    information of persons who are minors and are also
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1    districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
2    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
3    associations.
4        (ff) The names, addresses, or other personal
5    information of participants and registrants in programs of
6    park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
7    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
8    associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
9    minors.
10        (gg) Confidential information described in Section
11    1-100 of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal Act of 2012.
12        (hh) The report submitted to the State Board of
13    Education by the School Security and Standards Task Force
14    under item (8) of subsection (d) of Section 2-3.160 of the
15    School Code and any information contained in that report.
16        (ii) Records requested by persons committed to or
17    detained by the Department of Human Services under the
18    Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act or committed to the
19    Department of Corrections under the Sexually Dangerous
20    Persons Act if those materials: (i) are available in the
21    library of the facility where the individual is confined;
22    (ii) include records from staff members' personnel files,
23    staff rosters, or other staffing assignment information;
24    or (iii) are available through an administrative request to
25    the Department of Human Services or the Department of
26    Corrections.

 

 

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1        (jj) Confidential information described in Section
2    5-535 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
3        (kk) Records concerning the work of the threat
4    assessment team of a school district.
5    (1.5) Any information exempt from disclosure under the
6Judicial Privacy Act shall be redacted from public records
7prior to disclosure under this Act.
8    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
9public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
10agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
11behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
12governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
13Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
14for purposes of this Act.
15    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
16information or limit the availability of records to the public,
17except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
18Act.
19(Source: P.A. 99-298, eff. 8-6-15; 99-346, eff. 1-1-16; 99-642,
20eff. 7-28-16; 100-26, eff. 8-4-17; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)
 
21    Section 15. The Illinois School Student Records Act is
22amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
 
23    (105 ILCS 10/6)  (from Ch. 122, par. 50-6)
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1contained therein may be released, transferred, disclosed or
2otherwise disseminated, except as follows:
3        (1) to a parent or student or person specifically
4    designated as a representative by a parent, as provided in
5    paragraph (a) of Section 5;
6        (2) to an employee or official of the school or school
7    district or State Board with current demonstrable
8    educational or administrative interest in the student, in
9    furtherance of such interest;
10        (3) to the official records custodian of another school
11    within Illinois or an official with similar
12    responsibilities of a school outside Illinois, in which the
13    student has enrolled, or intends to enroll, upon the
14    request of such official or student;
15        (4) to any person for the purpose of research,
16    statistical reporting, or planning, provided that such
17    research, statistical reporting, or planning is
18    permissible under and undertaken in accordance with the
19    federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20
20    U.S.C. 1232g);
21        (5) pursuant to a court order, provided that the parent
22    shall be given prompt written notice upon receipt of such
23    order of the terms of the order, the nature and substance
24    of the information proposed to be released in compliance
25    with such order and an opportunity to inspect and copy the
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1    pursuant to Section 7;
2        (6) to any person as specifically required by State or
3    federal law;
4        (6.5) to juvenile authorities when necessary for the
5    discharge of their official duties who request information
6    prior to adjudication of the student and who certify in
7    writing that the information will not be disclosed to any
8    other party except as provided under law or order of court.
9    For purposes of this Section "juvenile authorities" means:
10    (i) a judge of the circuit court and members of the staff
11    of the court designated by the judge; (ii) parties to the
12    proceedings under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 and their
13    attorneys; (iii) probation officers and court appointed
14    advocates for the juvenile authorized by the judge hearing
15    the case; (iv) any individual, public or private agency
16    having custody of the child pursuant to court order; (v)
17    any individual, public or private agency providing
18    education, medical or mental health service to the child
19    when the requested information is needed to determine the
20    appropriate service or treatment for the minor; (vi) any
21    potential placement provider when such release is
22    authorized by the court for the limited purpose of
23    determining the appropriateness of the potential
24    placement; (vii) law enforcement officers and prosecutors;
25    (viii) adult and juvenile prisoner review boards; (ix)
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1    by court;
2        (7) subject to regulations of the State Board, in
3    connection with an emergency, to appropriate persons if the
4    knowledge of such information is necessary to protect the
5    health or safety of the student or other persons;
6        (8) to any person, with the prior specific dated
7    written consent of the parent designating the person to
8    whom the records may be released, provided that at the time
9    any such consent is requested or obtained, the parent shall
10    be advised in writing that he has the right to inspect and
11    copy such records in accordance with Section 5, to
12    challenge their contents in accordance with Section 7 and
13    to limit any such consent to designated records or
14    designated portions of the information contained therein;
15        (9) to a governmental agency, or social service agency
16    contracted by a governmental agency, in furtherance of an
17    investigation of a student's school attendance pursuant to
18    the compulsory student attendance laws of this State,
19    provided that the records are released to the employee or
20    agent designated by the agency;
21        (10) to those SHOCAP committee members who fall within
22    the meaning of "state and local officials and authorities",
23    as those terms are used within the meaning of the federal
24    Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, for the purposes
25    of identifying serious habitual juvenile offenders and
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1    to Section 5-145 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, but
2    only to the extent that the release, transfer, disclosure,
3    or dissemination is consistent with the Family Educational
4    Rights and Privacy Act;
5        (11) to the Department of Healthcare and Family
6    Services in furtherance of the requirements of Section
7    2-3.131, 3-14.29, 10-28, or 34-18.26 of the School Code or
8    Section 10 of the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act;
9    or
10        (12) to the State Board or another State government
11    agency or between or among State government agencies in
12    order to evaluate or audit federal and State programs or
13    perform research and planning, but only to the extent that
14    the release, transfer, disclosure, or dissemination is
15    consistent with the federal Family Educational Rights and
16    Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g); or .
17        (13) to another school district when a clear and
18    present danger presents itself, in accordance with
19    subsection (d) of Section 45 of the School Safety Drill
20    Act.
21    (b) No information may be released pursuant to subparagraph
22(3) or (6) of paragraph (a) of this Section 6 unless the parent
23receives prior written notice of the nature and substance of
24the information proposed to be released, and an opportunity to
25inspect and copy such records in accordance with Section 5 and
26to challenge their contents in accordance with Section 7.

 

 

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1Provided, however, that such notice shall be sufficient if
2published in a local newspaper of general circulation or other
3publication directed generally to the parents involved where
4the proposed release of information is pursuant to subparagraph
5(6) of paragraph (a) of this Section 6 and relates to more than
625 students.
7    (c) A record of any release of information pursuant to this
8Section must be made and kept as a part of the school student
9record and subject to the access granted by Section 5. Such
10record of release shall be maintained for the life of the
11school student records and shall be available only to the
12parent and the official records custodian. Each record of
13release shall also include:
14        (1) the nature and substance of the information
15    released;
16        (2) the name and signature of the official records
17    custodian releasing such information;
18        (3) the name of the person requesting such information,
19    the capacity in which such a request has been made, and the
20    purpose of such request;
21        (4) the date of the release; and
22        (5) a copy of any consent to such release.
23    (d) Except for the student and his parents, no person to
24whom information is released pursuant to this Section and no
25person specifically designated as a representative by a parent
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1without a prior consent of the parent obtained in accordance
2with the requirements of subparagraph (8) of paragraph (a) of
3this Section.
4    (e) Nothing contained in this Act shall prohibit the
5publication of student directories which list student names,
6addresses and other identifying information and similar
7publications which comply with regulations issued by the State
8Board.
9(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15.)
 
10    Section 20. The School Safety Drill Act is amended by
11changing Section 20 and by adding Section 45 as follows:
 
12    (105 ILCS 128/20)
13    Sec. 20. Number of drills; incidents covered; local
14authority participation.
15    (a) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
16minimum of 3 school evacuation drills to address and prepare
17students and school personnel for fire incidents. These drills
18must meet all of the following criteria:
19        (1) One of the 3 school evacuation drills shall require
20    the participation of the appropriate local fire department
21    or district.
22            (A) Each local fire department or fire district
23        must contact the appropriate school administrator or
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1        year in order to arrange for the participation of the
2        department or district in the school evacuation drill.
3            (B) Each school administrator or his or her
4        designee must contact the responding local fire
5        official no later than September 15 of each year and
6        propose to the local fire official 4 dates within the
7        month of October, during at least 2 different weeks of
8        October, on which the drill shall occur. The fire
9        official may choose any of the 4 available dates, and
10        if he or she does so, the drill shall occur on that
11        date.
12            (C) The school administrator or his or her designee
13        and the local fire official may also, by mutual
14        agreement, set any other date for the drill, including
15        a date outside of the month of October.
16            (D) If the fire official does not select one of the
17        4 offered dates in October or set another date by
18        mutual agreement, the requirement that the school
19        include the local fire service in one of its mandatory
20        school evacuation drills shall be waived. Schools,
21        however, shall continue to be strongly encouraged to
22        include the fire service in a school evacuation drill
23        at a mutually agreed-upon time.
24            (E) Upon the participation of the local fire
25        service, the appropriate local fire official shall
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1        conducted.
2            (F) When scheduling the school evacuation drill,
3        the school administrator or his or her designee and the
4        local fire department or fire district may, by mutual
5        agreement on or before September 14, choose to waive
6        the provisions of subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) of
7        this paragraph (1).
8        Additional school evacuation drills for fire incidents
9    may involve the participation of the appropriate local fire
10    department or district.
11        (2) Schools may conduct additional school evacuation
12    drills to account for other evacuation incidents,
13    including without limitation suspicious items or bomb
14    threats.
15        (3) All drills shall be conducted at each school
16    building that houses school children.
17    (b) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
18minimum of one bus evacuation drill. This drill shall be
19accounted for in the curriculum in all public schools and in
20all other educational institutions in this State that are
21supported or maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds
22and that provide instruction in any of the grades kindergarten
23through 12. This curriculum shall include instruction in safe
24bus riding practices for all students. Schools may conduct
25additional bus evacuation drills. All drills shall be conducted
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1    (b-5) Notwithstanding the minimum requirements established
2by this Act, private schools that do not utilize a bus to
3transport students for any purpose are exempt from subsection
4(b) of this Section, provided that the chief school
5administrator of the private school provides written assurance
6to the State Board of Education that the private school does
7not plan to utilize a bus to transport students for any purpose
8during the current academic year. The assurance must be made on
9a form supplied by the State Board of Education and filed no
10later than October 15. If a private school utilizes a bus to
11transport students for any purpose during an academic year when
12an assurance pursuant to this subsection (b-5) has been filed
13with the State Board of Education, the private school shall
14immediately notify the State Board of Education and comply with
15subsection (b) of this Section no later than 30 calendar days
16after utilization of the bus to transport students, except
17that, at the discretion of the private school, students chosen
18for participation in the bus evacuation drill need include only
19the subgroup of students that are utilizing bus transportation.
20    (c) Within 90 days after the beginning of During each
21academic year, schools must conduct a law enforcement drill to
22address a school shooting incident. Such drills must be
23conducted according to the school district's or private
24school's emergency and crisis response plans, protocols, and
25procedures, with the participation of the appropriate law
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1days and times when students are not present in the school
2building. All drills must be conducted at each school building
3that houses school children.
4        (1) A law enforcement drill must meet all of the
5    following criteria:
6            (A) During each calendar year, the appropriate
7        local law enforcement agency shall contact the
8        appropriate school administrator to request to
9        participate in a law enforcement drill. The school
10        administrator and local law enforcement agency shall
11        set, by mutual agreement, a date for the drill.
12            (A-5) The drill shall require the on-site
13        participation of the local law enforcement agency. If a
14        mutually agreeable date cannot be reached between the
15        school administrator and the appropriate local law
16        enforcement agency, then the school shall still hold
17        the drill without participation from the agency.
18            (B) Upon the participation of a local law
19        enforcement agency in a law enforcement drill, the
20        appropriate local law enforcement official shall
21        certify that the law enforcement drill was conducted
22        and notify the school in a timely manner of any
23        deficiencies noted during the drill.
24        (2) Schools may conduct additional law enforcement
25    drills at their discretion.
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1    (d) During each academic year, schools must conduct a
2minimum of one severe weather and shelter-in-place drill to
3address and prepare students and school personnel for possible
4tornado incidents and may conduct additional severe weather and
5shelter-in-place drills to account for other incidents,
6including without limitation earthquakes or hazardous
7materials. All drills shall be conducted at each school
8building that houses school children.
9(Source: P.A. 100-443, eff. 8-25-17.)
 
10    (105 ILCS 128/45 new)
11    Sec. 45. Threat assessment protocol.
12    (a) The school board of each school district shall adopt a
13threat assessment protocol. The school board shall create a
14threat assessment team to develop the threat assessment
15protocol, which shall include at least one member representing
16each of the following stakeholder groups:
17        (1) administrators employed by the school district;
18        (2) teachers employed by the school district;
19        (3) school counselors employed by the school district;
20        (4) school social workers employed by the school
21    district;
22        (5) school nurses employed by the school district;
23        (6) parents whose children are enrolled in the school
24    district;
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1    and
2        (8) emergency response professionals.
3    (b) A threat assessment protocol adopted by the school
4board shall be a public document, and the school district shall
5post the threat assessment protocol on its website.
6    (c) The school board shall create the threat assessment
7team within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory
8Act of the 100th General Assembly and shall adopt an initial
9threat assessment protocol within 90 days after the effective
10date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly.
11    (d) A school district may share information concerning a
12clear and present danger with another school district. The term
13"clear and present danger" has the same meaning as provided in
14the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. The sharing of
15information shall comply with the federal Family Educational
16Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18becoming law.