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1     AN ACT in relation to freedom of information.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
5 changing Section 7 as follows:
 
6     (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
7     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
8     (1) The following shall be exempt from inspection and
9 copying:
10         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
11     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
12     adopted under federal or State law.
13         (b) Information that, if disclosed, would constitute a
14     clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
15     the disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
16     subjects of the information. The disclosure of information
17     that bears on the public duties of public employees and
18     officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
19     privacy. Information exempted under this subsection (b)
20     shall include but is not limited to:
21             (i) files and personal information maintained with
22         respect to clients, patients, residents, students or
23         other individuals receiving social, medical,
24         educational, vocational, financial, supervisory or
25         custodial care or services directly or indirectly from
26         federal agencies or public bodies;
27             (ii) personnel files and personal information
28         maintained with respect to employees, appointees or
29         elected officials of any public body or applicants for
30         those positions;
31             (iii) files and personal information maintained
32         with respect to any applicant, registrant or licensee

 

 

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1         by any public body cooperating with or engaged in
2         professional or occupational registration, licensure
3         or discipline;
4             (iv) information required of any taxpayer in
5         connection with the assessment or collection of any tax
6         unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
7         statute;
8             (v) information revealing the identity of persons
9         who file complaints with or provide information to
10         administrative, investigative, law enforcement or
11         penal agencies; provided, however, that identification
12         of witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
13         reports, and rescue reports may be provided by agencies
14         of local government, except in a case for which a
15         criminal investigation is ongoing, without
16         constituting a clearly unwarranted per se invasion of
17         personal privacy under this subsection; and
18             (vi) the names, addresses, or other personal
19         information of participants and registrants in park
20         district, forest preserve district, and conservation
21         district programs.
22         (c) Records compiled by any public body for
23     administrative enforcement proceedings and any law
24     enforcement or correctional agency for law enforcement
25     purposes or for internal matters of a public body, but only
26     to the extent that disclosure would:
27             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
28         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
29         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
30         agency;
31             (ii) interfere with pending administrative
32         enforcement proceedings conducted by any public body;
33             (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an
34         impartial hearing;
35             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
36         confidential source or confidential information

 

 

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1         furnished only by the confidential source;
2             (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
3         techniques other than those generally used and known or
4         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
5         related to detection, observation or investigation of
6         incidents of crime or misconduct;
7             (vi) constitute an invasion of personal privacy
8         under subsection (b) of this Section;
9             (vii) endanger the life or physical safety of law
10         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
11             (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation.
12         (d) Criminal history record information maintained by
13     State or local criminal justice agencies, except the
14     following which shall be open for public inspection and
15     copying:
16             (i) chronologically maintained arrest information,
17         such as traditional arrest logs or blotters;
18             (ii) the name of a person in the custody of a law
19         enforcement agency and the charges for which that
20         person is being held;
21             (iii) court records that are public;
22             (iv) records that are otherwise available under
23         State or local law; or
24             (v) records in which the requesting party is the
25         individual identified, except as provided under part
26         (vii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this
27         Section.
28         "Criminal history record information" means data
29     identifiable to an individual and consisting of
30     descriptions or notations of arrests, detentions,
31     indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
32     or other formal events in the criminal justice system or
33     descriptions or notations of criminal charges (including
34     criminal violations of local municipal ordinances) and the
35     nature of any disposition arising therefrom, including
36     sentencing, court or correctional supervision,

 

 

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1     rehabilitation and release. The term does not apply to
2     statistical records and reports in which individuals are
3     not identified and from which their identities are not
4     ascertainable, or to information that is for criminal
5     investigative or intelligence purposes.
6         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
7     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
8         (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
9     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
10     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
11     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
12     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
13     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
14     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
15     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
16     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
17         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
18     information obtained from a person or business where the
19     trade secrets or information are proprietary, privileged
20     or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
21     or information may cause competitive harm, including:
22         (i) All all information determined to be confidential
23     under Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and
24     Development Act.
25         (ii) Venture capital and private equity portfolio
26     information of privately held companies possessed by a
27     public body, including a public pension fund, for the
28     purpose of investing and managing public funds. The
29     exemption contained in this item does not apply to the
30     aggregate financial performance of a venture capital or
31     private equity firm.
32      Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be construed
33 to prevent a person or business from consenting to disclosure.
34         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
35     agreement, including information which if it were
36     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) Test questions, scoring keys and other examination
18     data used to administer an academic examination or
19     determined the qualifications of an applicant for a license
20     or employment.
21         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
22     submissions, and other construction related technical
23     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
24     whole or in part with public funds and the same for
25     projects constructed or developed with public funds, but
26     only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
27     security, including but not limited to water treatment
28     facilities, airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention
29     centers, and all government owned, operated, or occupied
30     buildings.
31         (l) Library circulation and order records identifying
32     library users with specific materials.
33         (m) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
34     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
35     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
36     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.

 

 

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1         (n) Communications between a public body and an
2     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
3     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
4     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
5     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
6     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
7     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
8     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
9         (o) Information received by a primary or secondary
10     school, college or university under its procedures for the
11     evaluation of faculty members by their academic peers.
12         (p) Administrative or technical information associated
13     with automated data processing operations, including but
14     not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
15     program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
16     modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
17     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
18     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
19     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
20     security of the system or its data or the security of
21     materials exempt under this Section.
22         (q) Documents or materials relating to collective
23     negotiating matters between public bodies and their
24     employees or representatives, except that any final
25     contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
26     copying.
27         (r) Drafts, notes, recommendations and memoranda
28     pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
29     the public body. The records of ownership, registration,
30     transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
31     of persons to whom payment with respect to these
32     obligations is made.
33         (s) The records, documents and information relating to
34     real estate purchase negotiations until those negotiations
35     have been completed or otherwise terminated. With regard to
36     a parcel involved in a pending or actually and reasonably

 

 

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1     contemplated eminent domain proceeding under Article VII
2     of the Code of Civil Procedure, records, documents and
3     information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
4     as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
5     Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
6     information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
7     until a sale is consummated.
8         (t) Any and all proprietary information and records
9     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
10     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
11     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
12         (u) Information concerning a university's adjudication
13     of student or employee grievance or disciplinary cases, to
14     the extent that disclosure would reveal the identity of the
15     student or employee and information concerning any public
16     body's adjudication of student or employee grievances or
17     disciplinary cases, except for the final outcome of the
18     cases.
19         (v) Course materials or research materials used by
20     faculty members.
21         (w) Information related solely to the internal
22     personnel rules and practices of a public body.
23         (x) Information contained in or related to
24     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
25     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
26     for the regulation or supervision of financial
27     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
28     otherwise required by State law.
29         (y) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
30     under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
31         (z) Manuals or instruction to staff that relate to
32     establishment or collection of liability for any State tax
33     or that relate to investigations by a public body to
34     determine violation of any criminal law.
35         (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical
36     records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation

 

 

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1     Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
2     prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
3     Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
4     has received.
5         (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any
6     intergovernmental risk management association or self
7     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
8     information, records, data, advice or communications.
9         (cc) Information and records held by the Department of
10     Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
11     to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
12     disease or any information the disclosure of which is
13     restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
14     Disease Control Act.
15         (dd) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
16     under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
17         (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
18     the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
19     Qualifications Based Selection Act.
20         (ff) Security portions of system safety program plans,
21     investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
22     information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
23     Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of
24     the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair
25     County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
26     Act.
27         (gg) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
28     and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
29     Tuition Act.
30         (hh) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
31     under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
32         (ii) Beginning July 1, 1999, information that would
33     disclose or might lead to the disclosure of secret or
34     confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs, or
35     private keys intended to be used to create electronic or
36     digital signatures under the Electronic Commerce Security

 

 

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1     Act.
2         (jj) Information contained in a local emergency energy
3     plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
4     emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under
5     Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
6         (kk) Information and data concerning the distribution
7     of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless
8     carriers under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety
9     Act.
10         (ll) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
11     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
12     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
13     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
14     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
15     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
16     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
17     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
18     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
19     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
20     include such things as details pertaining to the
21     mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
22     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
23     tactical operations.
24         (mm) Maps and other records regarding the location or
25     security of a utility's generation, transmission,
26     distribution, storage, gathering, treatment, or switching
27     facilities.
28         (nn) Law enforcement officer identification
29     information or driver identification information compiled
30     by a law enforcement agency or the Department of
31     Transportation under Section 11-212 of the Illinois
32     Vehicle Code.
33         (oo) Records and information provided to a residential
34     health care facility resident sexual assault and death
35     review team or the Residential Health Care Facility
36     Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Teams Executive

 

 

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1     Council under the Residential Health Care Facility
2     Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Team Act.
3     (2) This Section does not authorize withholding of
4 information or limit the availability of records to the public,
5 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
6 Act.
7 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-241, eff. 8-3-01; 92-281,
8 eff. 8-7-01; 92-645, eff. 7-11-02; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-43,
9 eff. 7-1-03; 93-209, eff. 7-18-03; 93-237, eff. 7-22-03;
10 93-325, eff. 7-23-03, 93-422, eff. 8-5-03; 93-577, eff.
11 8-21-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03.)