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91_HB0538

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Freedom  of  Information  Act by
 2    changing Section 7.

 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section  5.  The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
 6    changing Section 7 as follows:

 7        (5 ILCS 140/7) (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
 8        Sec. 7.  Exemptions.
 9        (1)  The following shall be exempt  from  inspection  and
10    copying:
11             (a)  Information    specifically   prohibited   from
12        disclosure  by  federal  or  State  law  or   rules   and
13        regulations adopted under federal or State law.
14             (b)  Information    that,    if   disclosed,   would
15        constitute a clearly  unwarranted  invasion  of  personal
16        privacy, unless the disclosure is consented to in writing
17        by  the  individual  subjects  of  the  information.  The
18        disclosure of information that bears on the public duties
19        of public employees and officials shall not be considered
20        an invasion of personal  privacy.   Information  exempted
21        under  this  subsection  (b)  shall  include  but  is not
22        limited to:
23                  (i)  files and personal information  maintained
24             with   respect   to  clients,  patients,  residents,
25             students  or  other  individuals  receiving  social,
26             medical,   educational,    vocational,    financial,
27             supervisory  or  custodial care or services directly
28             or  indirectly  from  federal  agencies  or   public
29             bodies;
30                  (ii)  personnel  files and personal information
31             maintained with respect to employees, appointees  or
 
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 1             elected  officials  of any public body or applicants
 2             for those positions;
 3                  (iii)  files    and    personal     information
 4             maintained with respect to any applicant, registrant
 5             or  licensee  by any public body cooperating with or
 6             engaged    in    professional    or     occupational
 7             registration, licensure or discipline;
 8                  (iv)  information  required  of any taxpayer in
 9             connection with the assessment or collection of  any
10             tax unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
11             statute; and
12                  (v)  information   revealing  the  identity  of
13             persons  who  file  complaints   with   or   provide
14             information  to  administrative,  investigative, law
15             enforcement or penal  agencies;  provided,  however,
16             that   identification   of   witnesses   to  traffic
17             accidents,  traffic  accident  reports,  and  rescue
18             reports  may  be  provided  by  agencies  of   local
19             government,  except  in  a case for which a criminal
20             investigation is  ongoing,  without  constituting  a
21             clearly  unwarranted   per  se  invasion of personal
22             privacy under this subsection.
23             (c)  Records  compiled  by  any  public   body   for
24        administrative   enforcement   proceedings  and  any  law
25        enforcement or correctional agency  for  law  enforcement
26        purposes  or  for  internal matters of a public body, but
27        only to the extent that disclosure would:
28                  (i)  interfere with  pending  or  actually  and
29             reasonably  contemplated law enforcement proceedings
30             conducted by any  law  enforcement  or  correctional
31             agency;
32                  (ii)  interfere   with  pending  administrative
33             enforcement  proceedings  conducted  by  any  public
34             body;
 
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 1                  (iii)  deprive a person of a fair trial  or  an
 2             impartial hearing;
 3                  (iv)  unavoidably  disclose  the  identity of a
 4             confidential  source  or  confidential   information
 5             furnished only by the confidential source;
 6                  (v)  disclose     unique     or     specialized
 7             investigative  techniques other than those generally
 8             used and known or  disclose  internal  documents  of
 9             correctional    agencies   related   to   detection,
10             observation or investigation of incidents  of  crime
11             or misconduct;
12                  (vi)  constitute   an   invasion   of  personal
13             privacy under subsection (b) of this Section;
14                  (vii)  endanger the life or physical safety  of
15             law enforcement personnel or any other person; or
16                  (viii)  obstruct     an     ongoing    criminal
17             investigation.
18             (d)  Criminal history record information  maintained
19        by  State  or local criminal justice agencies, except the
20        following which shall be open for public  inspection  and
21        copying:
22                  (i)  chronologically      maintained     arrest
23             information, such  as  traditional  arrest  logs  or
24             blotters;
25                  (ii)  the  name of a person in the custody of a
26             law enforcement agency and  the  charges  for  which
27             that person is being held;
28                  (iii)  court records that are public;
29                  (iv)  records   that  are  otherwise  available
30             under State or local law; or
31                  (v)  records in which the requesting  party  is
32             the  individual identified, except as provided under
33             part (vii) of paragraph (c)  of  subsection  (1)  of
34             this Section.
 
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 1             "Criminal  history  record  information"  means data
 2        identifiable  to  an   individual   and   consisting   of
 3        descriptions   or   notations   of  arrests,  detentions,
 4        indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
 5        or other formal events in the criminal justice system  or
 6        descriptions  or notations of criminal charges (including
 7        criminal violations of local  municipal  ordinances)  and
 8        the   nature   of   any  disposition  arising  therefrom,
 9        including sentencing, court or correctional  supervision,
10        rehabilitation  and  release.  The term does not apply to
11        statistical records and reports in which individuals  are
12        not  identified  and  from which their identities are not
13        ascertainable, or to information  that  is  for  criminal
14        investigative or intelligence purposes.
15             (e)  Records  that  relate to or affect the security
16        of correctional institutions and detention facilities.
17             (f)  Preliminary  drafts,  notes,   recommendations,
18        memoranda   and  other  records  in  which  opinions  are
19        expressed, or policies or actions are formulated,  except
20        that  a  specific  record or relevant portion of a record
21        shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
22        identified by the head of the public body. The  exemption
23        provided  in  this  paragraph  (f)  extends  to all those
24        records of officers and agencies of the General  Assembly
25        that pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
26             (g)  Trade   secrets  and  commercial  or  financial
27        information obtained from a person or business where  the
28        trade  secrets or information are proprietary, privileged
29        or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
30        or information may cause competitive harm, including  all
31        information  determined  to be confidential under Section
32        4002 of the Technology Advancement and  Development  Act.
33        Nothing   contained   in  this  paragraph  (g)  shall  be
34        construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
 
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 1        to disclosure.
 2             (h)  Proposals and bids for any contract, grant,  or
 3        agreement,   including   information  which  if  it  were
 4        disclosed  would  frustrate  procurement   or   give   an
 5        advantage  to  any  person  proposing  to  enter  into  a
 6        contractor  agreement  with  the  body, until an award or
 7        final selection is made.  Information prepared by or  for
 8        the  body  in  preparation of a bid solicitation shall be
 9        exempt until an award or final selection is made.
10             (i)  Valuable  formulae,   designs,   drawings   and
11        research  data  obtained  or  produced by any public body
12        when disclosure could reasonably be expected  to  produce
13        private gain or public loss.
14             (j)  Test   questions,   scoring   keys   and  other
15        examination  data  used   to   administer   an   academic
16        examination   or  determined  the  qualifications  of  an
17        applicant for a license or employment.
18             (k)  Architects'  plans  and  engineers'   technical
19        submissions  for projects not constructed or developed in
20        whole or in part  with  public  funds  and  for  projects
21        constructed or developed with public funds, to the extent
22        that disclosure would compromise security.
23             (l)  Library    circulation    and   order   records
24        identifying library users with specific materials.
25             (m)  Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed  to
26        the public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
27        public  body  makes  the  minutes available to the public
28        under Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
29             (n)  Communications between a  public  body  and  an
30        attorney  or  auditor  representing  the public body that
31        would not be subject  to  discovery  in  litigation,  and
32        materials prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
33        anticipation  of  a  criminal,  civil  or  administrative
34        proceeding  upon  the request of an attorney advising the
 
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 1        public body, and  materials  prepared  or  compiled  with
 2        respect to internal audits of public bodies.
 3             (o)  Information  received by a primary or secondary
 4        school, college or university under  its  procedures  for
 5        the  evaluation  of  faculty  members  by  their academic
 6        peers.
 7             (p)  Administrative   or    technical    information
 8        associated  with  automated  data  processing operations,
 9        including  but  not  limited   to   software,   operating
10        protocols,  computer  program  abstracts,  file  layouts,
11        source  listings,  object  modules,  load  modules,  user
12        guides,  documentation  pertaining  to  all  logical  and
13        physical   design   of   computerized  systems,  employee
14        manuals, and any other information  that,  if  disclosed,
15        would  jeopardize  the security of the system or its data
16        or the security of materials exempt under this Section.
17             (q)  Documents or materials relating  to  collective
18        negotiating  matters  between  public  bodies  and  their
19        employees  or  representatives,  except  that  any  final
20        contract  or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
21        copying.
22             (r)  Drafts, notes,  recommendations  and  memoranda
23        pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
24        the  public body. The records of ownership, registration,
25        transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
26        of  persons  to  whom  payment  with  respect  to   these
27        obligations is made.
28             (s)  The records, documents and information relating
29        to   real   estate   purchase  negotiations  until  those
30        negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
31        With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
32        and reasonably  contemplated  eminent  domain  proceeding
33        under  Article  VII  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,
34        records,  documents  and  information  relating  to  that
 
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 1        parcel  shall  be  exempt  except as may be allowed under
 2        discovery rules adopted by the  Illinois  Supreme  Court.
 3        The records, documents and information relating to a real
 4        estate sale shall be exempt until a sale is consummated.
 5             (t)  Any and all proprietary information and records
 6        related  to  the  operation  of an intergovernmental risk
 7        management association or self-insurance pool or  jointly
 8        self-administered  health  and  accident  cooperative  or
 9        pool.
10             (u)  Information     concerning    a    university's
11        adjudication  of  student  or   employee   grievance   or
12        disciplinary  cases,  to the extent that disclosure would
13        reveal the  identity  of  the  student  or  employee  and
14        information  concerning any public body's adjudication of
15        student or employee  grievances  or  disciplinary  cases,
16        except for the final outcome of the cases.
17             (v)  Course  materials or research materials used by
18        faculty members.
19             (w)  Information  related  solely  to  the  internal
20        personnel rules and practices of a public body.
21             (x)  Information  contained   in   or   related   to
22        examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
23        on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
24        for   the   regulation   or   supervision   of  financial
25        institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
26        otherwise required by State law.
27             (y)  Information  the   disclosure   of   which   is
28        restricted  under  Section  5-108 of the Public Utilities
29        Act.
30             (z)  Manuals or instruction to staff that relate  to
31        establishment  or  collection  of liability for any State
32        tax or that relate to investigations by a public body  to
33        determine violation of any criminal law.
34             (aa)  Applications,  related  documents, and medical
 
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 1        records    received    by    the    Experimental    Organ
 2        Transplantation  Procedures  Board  and   any   and   all
 3        documents  or  other records prepared by the Experimental
 4        Organ  Transplantation  Procedures  Board  or  its  staff
 5        relating to applications it has received.
 6             (bb)  Insurance or  self  insurance  (including  any
 7        intergovernmental  risk  management  association  or self
 8        insurance  pool)  claims,   loss   or   risk   management
 9        information, records, data, advice or communications.
10             (cc)  Information and records held by the Department
11        of  Public  Health  and  its  authorized  representatives
12        relating   to   known  or  suspected  cases  of  sexually
13        transmissible disease or any information  the  disclosure
14        of  which  is  restricted  under  the  Illinois  Sexually
15        Transmissible Disease Control Act.
16             (dd)  Information   the   disclosure   of  which  is
17        exempted under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing
18        Act.
19             (ee)  Firm performance evaluations under Section  55
20        of  the  Architectural,  Engineering,  and Land Surveying
21        Qualifications Based Selection Act.
22             (ff)  Security portions  of  system  safety  program
23        plans,  investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists,
24        data, or information compiled, collected, or prepared  by
25        or   for  the  Regional  Transportation  Authority  under
26        Section 2.11 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act
27        or the State  of  Missouri  under  the  Bi-State  Transit
28        Safety Act.
29             (gg)  Information   the   disclosure   of  which  is
30        restricted and exempted under Section 50 of the  Illinois
31        Prepaid Tuition Act.
32             (hh)  Information   the   disclosure   of  which  is
33        exempted under Section 80 of the State Gift Ban Act.
34             (ii)  Beginning July 1, 1999, (hh) information  that
 
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 1        would  disclose or might lead to the disclosure of secret
 2        or confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs,
 3        or private keys intended to be used to create  electronic
 4        or  digital  signatures  under  the  Electronic  Commerce
 5        Security Act.
 6             (jj)  Information  that  is  requested  to further a
 7        commercial enterprise or purpose.
 8        (2)  This  Section  does  not  authorize  withholding  of
 9    information or limit  the  availability  of  records  to  the
10    public,  except  as  stated  in  this  Section  or  otherwise
11    provided in this Act.
12    (Source:  P.A.  90-262,  eff.  7-30-97; 90-273, eff. 7-30-97;
13    90-546, eff. 12-1-97;  90-655,  eff.  7-30-98;  90-737,  eff.
14    1-1-99; 90-759, eff. 7-1-99; revised 9-8-98.)

15        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
16    becoming law.

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