100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB0691

 

Introduced , by Rep. Bill Mitchell

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act
5 ILCS 140/7.5

    Creates the Public Safety Officer Privacy Act. Defines terms. Limits the disclosure of a public safety officer's personal information by a person, business, association, or government agency if the entity has received a written request to limit the disclosure. Provides that the public safety officer's personal information shall be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act unless a government agency has received consent from the public safety officer to make the personal information available to the public. Allows for injunctive or declaratory relief for violations. Prohibits a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the Internet a public safety officer's personal information with the intent to pose an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the public safety officer or the officer's immediate family. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to make a corresponding change.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Public
5Safety Officer Privacy Act.
 
6    Section 5. Purpose; scope. The purpose of this Act is to
7improve the safety and security of Illinois public safety
8officers to ensure they are able to uphold their duty to
9maintain public safety without fear of personal reprisal from
10individuals affected by the decisions they make in the course
11of carrying out their public function. This Act is not intended
12to restrain a public safety officer from independently making
13public his or her own personal information. Additionally, no
14government agency, person, business, or association has any
15obligation under this Act to protect the privacy of a public
16safety officer's personal information until the public safety
17officer makes a written request that his or her personal
18information not be publicly posted.
 
19    Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
20    "Correctional officer" means a person who is employed by or
21works for a government agency penal institution.
22    "Fire fighter" means any person appointed to a fire

 

 

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1department or fire protection district or employed by a
2government agency and sworn or commissioned to perform fire
3fighter duties or paramedic duties, including part-time fire
4fighters, auxiliary fire fighters, reserve or voluntary fire
5fighters, and paid on-call fire fighters.
6    "Government agency" includes all agencies, authorities,
7boards, commissions, departments, institutions, offices, and
8any other bodies politic and corporate of this State, created
9by the constitution or statute, whether in the executive,
10judicial, or legislative branch; all units and corporate
11outgrowths created by executive order of the Governor or any
12constitutional officer, by the Supreme Court, or by resolution
13of the General Assembly; or agencies, authorities, boards,
14commissions, departments, institutions, offices, and any other
15bodies politic and corporate of a unit of local government or
16school district.
17    "Home address" includes a public safety officer's
18permanent residence and any secondary residences affirmatively
19identified by the public safety officer, but does not include a
20public safety officer's work address.
21    "Immediate family" includes a public safety officer's
22spouse, child, parent, or any blood relative of the public
23safety officer or the public safety officer's spouse who lives
24in the same residence as the public safety officer.
25    "Peace officer" or "officer" means a person defined under
26Section 2-13 of the Criminal Code of 2012.

 

 

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1    "Penal institution" means an institution defined under
2Section 2-14 of the Criminal Code of 2012.
3    "Personal information" means a home address, home
4telephone number, mobile telephone number, pager number,
5personal email address, social security number, federal tax
6identification number, checking and savings account numbers,
7credit card numbers, marital status, and identity of children
8under the age of 18.
9    "Public safety officer" means a peace officer, fire
10fighter, or correctional officer.
11    "Publicly available content" means any written, printed,
12or electronic document or record that provides information or
13that serves as a document or record maintained, controlled, or
14in the possession of a government agency that may be obtained
15by any person or entity, from the Internet, from the government
16agency upon request either free of charge or for a fee, or in
17response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
18    "Publicly post" or "publicly display" means to communicate
19to another or otherwise make available to the general public.
20    "Written request" means written notice signed by a public
21safety officer or a representative of the public safety
22officer's employer requesting a government agency, person,
23business, or association to refrain from posting or displaying
24publicly available content that includes the public safety
25officer's personal information.
 

 

 

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1    Section 15. Publicly posting or displaying a public safety
2officer's personal information.
3    (a) A government agency shall not publicly post or display
4publicly available content that includes a public safety
5officer's personal information if the government agency has
6received a written request in accordance with Section 20 of
7this Act. After a government agency has received a written
8request, that agency shall remove the public safety officer's
9personal information from publicly available content within 5
10business days. After the government agency has removed the
11public safety officer's personal information from publicly
12available content, the agency shall not publicly post or
13display the information and the public safety officer's
14personal information shall be exempt from disclosure under the
15Freedom of Information Act unless the government agency has
16received consent from the public safety officer to make the
17personal information available to the public.
18    (b) A person, business, or association shall not publicly
19post or display on the Internet available content that includes
20a public safety officer's personal information if the public
21safety officer has made a written request in accordance with
22Section 20 of this Act to the person, business, or association.
23After a person, business, or association has received a written
24request from a public safety officer, the person, business, or
25association shall have 5 business days to remove the personal
26information from the Internet. The person, business, or

 

 

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1association shall also ensure that the public safety officer's
2personal information is not made available on any website or
3subsidiary website controlled by the person, business, or
4association, nor transferred to any other person, business, or
5association through any medium. Regardless of whether a written
6request has been made, no person, business, or association
7shall solicit, sell, or trade on the Internet a public safety
8officer's personal information with the intent to pose an
9imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the
10public safety officer or the public safety officer's immediate
11family.
12    (c) A public safety officer whose personal information is
13made public as a result of a violation of this Act may bring an
14action seeking injunctive or declaratory relief in any court of
15competent jurisdiction.
 
16    Section 20. Procedure for completing a written request.
17    (a) A government agency, person, business, or association
18shall not be found to have violated any provision of this Act
19if the public safety officer fails to submit a written request
20under this Section.
21    (b) A written request is valid if the public safety officer
22or representative acting in accordance with subsection (c) of
23this Section sends a written request directly to a government
24agency, person, business, or association.
25    (c) A representative from the public safety officer's

 

 

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1employer may submit a written request on behalf of the public
2safety officer if the public safety officer gives written
3consent to the representative and the representative agrees to
4furnish a copy of the consent when a written request is made.
5The representative shall submit the written request as provided
6in this Section.
7    (d) A public safety officer's written request shall specify
8which personal information shall be maintained private. If a
9public safety officer wishes to identify a secondary residence
10as a home address, the designation shall be made in the written
11request. A public safety officer shall disclose the identity of
12the officer's immediate family and indicate that the personal
13information of these family members shall also be excluded to
14the extent that it could reasonably be expected to reveal the
15personal information of the public safety officer.
16    (e) A public safety officer's written request is valid
17until he or she provides the government agency, person,
18business, or association with written permission to release the
19private information. A public safety officer's written request
20expires upon the death of the officer.
 
21    Section 105. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
22changing Section 7.5 as follows:
 
23    (5 ILCS 140/7.5)
24    Sec. 7.5. Statutory exemptions. To the extent provided for

 

 

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1by the statutes referenced below, the following shall be exempt
2from inspection and copying:
3        (a) All information determined to be confidential
4    under Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and
5    Development Act.
6        (b) Library circulation and order records identifying
7    library users with specific materials under the Library
8    Records Confidentiality Act.
9        (c) Applications, related documents, and medical
10    records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
11    Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
12    prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
13    Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
14    has received.
15        (d) Information and records held by the Department of
16    Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
17    to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
18    disease or any information the disclosure of which is
19    restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
20    Disease Control Act.
21        (e) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
22    under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
23        (f) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
24    the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
25    Qualifications Based Selection Act.
26        (g) Information the disclosure of which is restricted

 

 

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1    and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
2    Tuition Act.
3        (h) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
4    under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, and
5    records of any lawfully created State or local inspector
6    general's office that would be exempt if created or
7    obtained by an Executive Inspector General's office under
8    that Act.
9        (i) Information contained in a local emergency energy
10    plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
11    emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under
12    Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
13        (j) Information and data concerning the distribution
14    of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless
15    carriers under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety
16    Act.
17        (k) Law enforcement officer identification information
18    or driver identification information compiled by a law
19    enforcement agency or the Department of Transportation
20    under Section 11-212 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
21        (l) Records and information provided to a residential
22    health care facility resident sexual assault and death
23    review team or the Executive Council under the Abuse
24    Prevention Review Team Act.
25        (m) Information provided to the predatory lending
26    database created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential

 

 

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1    Real Property Disclosure Act, except to the extent
2    authorized under that Article.
3        (n) Defense budgets and petitions for certification of
4    compensation and expenses for court appointed trial
5    counsel as provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital
6    Crimes Litigation Act. This subsection (n) shall apply
7    until the conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the
8    prosecution chooses not to pursue the death penalty prior
9    to trial or sentencing.
10        (o) Information that is prohibited from being
11    disclosed under Section 4 of the Illinois Health and
12    Hazardous Substances Registry Act.
13        (p) Security portions of system safety program plans,
14    investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
15    information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
16    Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of
17    the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair
18    County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
19    Act.
20        (q) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
21    Personnel Records Review Act.
22        (r) Information prohibited from being disclosed by the
23    Illinois School Student Records Act.
24        (s) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
25    under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
26        (t) All identified or deidentified health information

 

 

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1    in the form of health data or medical records contained in,
2    stored in, submitted to, transferred by, or released from
3    the Illinois Health Information Exchange, and identified
4    or deidentified health information in the form of health
5    data and medical records of the Illinois Health Information
6    Exchange in the possession of the Illinois Health
7    Information Exchange Authority due to its administration
8    of the Illinois Health Information Exchange. The terms
9    "identified" and "deidentified" shall be given the same
10    meaning as in the Health Insurance Portability and
11    Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191, or any
12    subsequent amendments thereto, and any regulations
13    promulgated thereunder.
14        (u) Records and information provided to an independent
15    team of experts under Brian's Law.
16        (v) Names and information of people who have applied
17    for or received Firearm Owner's Identification Cards under
18    the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act or applied for
19    or received a concealed carry license under the Firearm
20    Concealed Carry Act, unless otherwise authorized by the
21    Firearm Concealed Carry Act; and databases under the
22    Firearm Concealed Carry Act, records of the Concealed Carry
23    Licensing Review Board under the Firearm Concealed Carry
24    Act, and law enforcement agency objections under the
25    Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
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1    exempted from disclosure under subsection (g) of Section
2    19.1 of the Toll Highway Act.
3        (x) Information which is exempted from disclosure
4    under Section 5-1014.3 of the Counties Code or Section
5    8-11-21 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
6        (y) Confidential information under the Adult
7    Protective Services Act and its predecessor enabling
8    statute, the Elder Abuse and Neglect Act, including
9    information about the identity and administrative finding
10    against any caregiver of a verified and substantiated
11    decision of abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation of an
12    eligible adult maintained in the Registry established
13    under Section 7.5 of the Adult Protective Services Act.
14        (z) Records and information provided to a fatality
15    review team or the Illinois Fatality Review Team Advisory
16    Council under Section 15 of the Adult Protective Services
17    Act.
18        (aa) Information which is exempted from disclosure
19    under Section 2.37 of the Wildlife Code.
20        (bb) Information which is or was prohibited from
21    disclosure by the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
22        (cc) Recordings made under the Law Enforcement
23    Officer-Worn Body Camera Act, except to the extent
24    authorized under that Act.
25        (dd) Information that is prohibited from being
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1    Interest Community Ombudsperson Act.
2        (ee) (dd) Information that is exempted from disclosure
3    under Section 30.1 of the Pharmacy Practice Act.
4        (ff) Information that is exempt from disclosure under
5    the Public Safety Officer Privacy Act.
6(Source: P.A. 98-49, eff. 7-1-13; 98-63, eff. 7-9-13; 98-756,
7eff. 7-16-14; 98-1039, eff. 8-25-14; 98-1045, eff. 8-25-14;
899-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-298, eff. 8-6-15; 99-352, eff. 1-1-16;
999-642, eff. 7-28-16; 99-776, eff. 8-12-16; 99-863, eff.
108-19-16; revised 9-1-16.)