Rep. Jim Durkin

Filed: 3/23/2012

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4596

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4596, AS AMENDED, by
3replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4following:
 
5    "Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
6changing Section 7 as follows:
 
7    (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
8    Sec. 7. Exemptions.
9    (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
10record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
11under this Section, but also contains information that is not
12exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
13information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
14remaining information available for inspection and copying.
15Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
16inspection and copying:

 

 

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1        (a) Information specifically prohibited from
2    disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
3    implementing federal or State law.
4        (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
5    by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
6    a court order.
7        (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
8    maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
9    specifically designed to provide information to one or more
10    law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
11    status of one or more individual subjects.
12        (c) Personal information contained within public
13    records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
14    unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
15    disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
16    subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
17    personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
18    is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
19    and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
20    legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
21    The disclosure of information that bears on the public
22    duties of public employees and officials shall not be
23    considered an invasion of personal privacy.
24        (d) Records in the possession of any public body
25    created in the course of administrative enforcement
26    proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional

 

 

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1    agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
2    that disclosure would:
3            (i) interfere with pending or actually and
4        reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
5        conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
6        agency that is the recipient of the request;
7            (ii) interfere with active administrative
8        enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
9        that is the recipient of the request;
10            (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
11        person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
12        hearing;
13            (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
14        confidential source, confidential information
15        furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
16        who file complaints with or provide information to
17        administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
18        penal agencies; except that the identities of
19        witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
20        reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
21        agencies of local government, except when disclosure
22        would interfere with an active criminal investigation
23        conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
24        request;
25            (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
26        techniques other than those generally used and known or

 

 

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1        disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
2        related to detection, observation or investigation of
3        incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
4        result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
5        body that is the recipient of the request;
6            (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
7        enforcement personnel or any other person; or
8            (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
9        by the agency that is the recipient of the request; or
10        .
11            (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
12        by a law enforcement agency that is not the recipient
13        of the request when the recipient agency possesses such
14        record only because it maintains a
15        multi-jurisdictional police data management system
16        which receives information in the form of data and
17        documents relating to law enforcement investigations.
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 appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
21    Mortality Review Team Act.
22        (cc) Information regarding interments, entombments, or
23    inurnments of human remains that are submitted to the
24    Cemetery Oversight Database under the Cemetery Care Act or
25    the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is applicable.
26        (dd) Correspondence and records (i) that may not be

 

 

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1    disclosed under Section 11-9 of the Public Aid Code or (ii)
2    that pertain to appeals under Section 11-8 of the Public
3    Aid Code.
4        (ee) (dd) The names, addresses, or other personal
5    information of persons who are minors and are also
6    participants and registrants in programs of park
7    districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
8    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
9    associations.
10        (ff) (ee) The names, addresses, or other personal
11    information of participants and registrants in programs of
12    park districts, forest preserve districts, conservation
13    districts, recreation agencies, and special recreation
14    associations where such programs are targeted primarily to
15    minors.
16    (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
17public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
18agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
19behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
20governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
21Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
22for purposes of this Act.
23    (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
24information or limit the availability of records to the public,
25except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
26Act.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 96-261, eff. 1-1-10; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09;
296-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10; 96-736, eff. 7-1-10;
396-863, eff. 3-1-10; 96-1378, eff. 7-29-10; 97-333, eff.
48-12-11; 97-385, eff. 8-15-11; 97-452, eff. 8-19-11; revised
59-2-11.)
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.".