96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5143

 

Introduced 1/29/2010, by Rep. Michael G. Connelly

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 140/7   from Ch. 116, par. 207

    Amends the Freedom of Information Act. With respect to the exemption from disclosure for personal information, includes files and information relating to specified categories of service recipients, registrants and licensees, and program participants. Effective July 1, 2010.


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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,
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     (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 96-736)
8     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
9     (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
10 record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
11 under this Section, but also contains information that is not
12 exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
13 information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
14 remaining information available for inspection and copying.
15 Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
16 inspection and copying:
17         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
18     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
19     implementing federal or State law.
20         (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
21     by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
22     a court order.
23         (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases

 

 

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1     maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
2     specifically designed to provide information to one or more
3     law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
4     status of one or more individual subjects.
5         (c) Personal information contained within public
6     records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
7     unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
8     disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
9     subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
10     personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
11     is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
12     and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
13     legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
14     The disclosure of information that bears on the public
15     duties of public employees and officials shall not be
16     considered an invasion of personal privacy. Information
17     exempted under this paragraph (c) shall include but is not
18     limited to:
19             (i) Files and personal information maintained with
20         respect to clients, patients, residents, students, or
21         other individuals receiving social, medical,
22         educational, vocational, financial, supervisory, or
23         custodial care or services directly or indirectly from
24         federal agencies or public bodies.
25             (ii) Files and personal information maintained
26         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             (iii) The names, addresses, or other personal
5         information of participants and registrants in park
6         district, forest preserve district, and conservation
7         district programs.
8         (d) Records in the possession of any public body
9     created in the course of administrative enforcement
10     proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
11     agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
12     that disclosure would:
13             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
14         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
15         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
16         agency that is the recipient of the request;
17             (ii) interfere with active administrative
18         enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
19         that is the recipient of the request;
20             (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
21         person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
22         hearing;
23             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
24         confidential source, confidential information
25         furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
26         who file complaints with or provide information to

 

 

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1         administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
2         penal agencies; except that the identities of
3         witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
4         reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
5         agencies of local government, except when disclosure
6         would interfere with an active criminal investigation
7         conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
8         request;
9             (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
10         techniques other than those generally used and known or
11         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
12         related to detection, observation or investigation of
13         incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
14         result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
15         body that is the recipient of the request;
16             (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
17         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
18             (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
19         by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
20         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
21     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
22         (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
23     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
24     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
25     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
26     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and

 

 

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1     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
2     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
3     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
4     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
5         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
6     information obtained from a person or business where the
7     trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
8     furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
9     privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
10     trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
11     cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
12     insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
13     requested.
14         The information included under this exemption includes
15     all (i) All trade secrets and commercial or financial
16     information obtained by a public body, including a public
17     pension fund, from a private equity fund or a privately
18     held company within the investment portfolio of a private
19     equity fund as a result of either investing or evaluating a
20     potential investment of public funds in a private equity
21     fund. The exemption contained in this item does not apply
22     to the aggregate financial performance information of a
23     private equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's
24     managers or general partners. The exemption contained in
25     this item does not apply to the identity of a privately
26     held company within the investment portfolio of a private

 

 

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1     equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
2     privately held company may cause competitive harm.
3         Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
4     construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
5     to disclosure.
6         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
7     agreement, including information which if it were
8     disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
9     to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
10     agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
11     is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
12     preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
13     award or final selection is made.
14         (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
15     designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
16     any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
17     expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
18     exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
19     this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
20     media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
21     requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
22     purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
23     information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
24     legal rights of the general public.
25         (j) The following information pertaining to
26     educational matters:

 

 

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1             (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
2         examination data used to administer an academic
3         examination;
4             (ii) information received by a primary or
5         secondary school, college, or university under its
6         procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
7         their academic peers;
8             (iii) information concerning a school or
9         university's adjudication of student disciplinary
10         cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
11         unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
12             (iv) course materials or research materials used
13         by faculty members.
14         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
15     submissions, and other construction related technical
16     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
17     whole or in part with public funds and the same for
18     projects constructed or developed with public funds,
19     including but not limited to power generating and
20     distribution stations and other transmission and
21     distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
22     airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
23     and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
24     but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
25     security.
26         (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the

 

 

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1     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
2     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
3     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
4         (m) Communications between a public body and an
5     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
6     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
7     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
8     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
9     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
10     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
11     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
12         (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
13     employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this
14     exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
15     which discipline is imposed.
16         (o) Administrative or technical information associated
17     with automated data processing operations, including but
18     not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
19     program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
20     modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
21     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
22     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
23     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
24     security of the system or its data or the security of
25     materials exempt under this Section.
26         (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters

 

 

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1     between public bodies and their employees or
2     representatives, except that any final contract or
3     agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
4         (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
5     examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
6     applicant for a license or employment.
7         (r) The records, documents, and information relating
8     to real estate purchase negotiations until those
9     negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
10     With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
11     and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
12     under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
13     information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
14     as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
15     Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
16     information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
17     until a sale is consummated.
18         (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
19     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
20     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
21     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
22     Insurance or self insurance (including any
23     intergovernmental risk management association or self
24     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
25     information, records, data, advice or communications.
26         (t) Information contained in or related to

 

 

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1     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
2     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
3     for the regulation or supervision of financial
4     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
5     otherwise required by State law.
6         (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
7     the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
8     codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
9     used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
10     Electronic Commerce Security Act.
11         (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
12     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
13     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
14     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
15     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
16     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
17     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
18     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
19     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
20     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
21     include such things as details pertaining to the
22     mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
23     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
24     tactical operations.
25         (w) (Blank).
26         (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or

 

 

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1     security of generation, transmission, distribution,
2     storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
3     owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
4     Illinois Power Agency.
5         (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
6     bids, or negotiations related to electric power
7     procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
8     Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
9     is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
10     Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
11     Commission.
12         (z) (tt) Information about students exempted from
13     disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
14     School Code, and information about undergraduate students
15     enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
16     from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
17     Card Marketing Act of 2009.
18     (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
19 public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
20 agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
21 behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
22 governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
23 Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
24 for purposes of this Act.
25     (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
26 information or limit the availability of records to the public,

 

 

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1 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
2 Act.
3 (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07;
4 95-941, eff. 8-29-08; 95-988, eff. 6-1-09; 96-261, eff. 1-1-10;
5 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10;
6 revised 9-25-09.)
 
7     (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 96-736)
8     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
9     (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
10 record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
11 under this Section, but also contains information that is not
12 exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
13 information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
14 remaining information available for inspection and copying.
15 Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
16 inspection and copying:
17         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
18     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
19     implementing federal or State law.
20         (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
21     by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
22     a court order.
23         (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
24     maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
25     specifically designed to provide information to one or more

 

 

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1     law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
2     status of one or more individual subjects.
3         (c) Personal information contained within public
4     records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
5     unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
6     disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
7     subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
8     personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
9     is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
10     and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
11     legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
12     The disclosure of information that bears on the public
13     duties of public employees and officials shall not be
14     considered an invasion of personal privacy. Information
15     exempted under this paragraph (c) shall include but is not
16     limited to:
17             (i) Files and personal information maintained with
18         respect to clients, patients, residents, students, or
19         other individuals receiving social, medical,
20         educational, vocational, financial, supervisory, or
21         custodial care or services directly or indirectly from
22         federal agencies or public bodies.
23             (ii) Files and personal information maintained
24         with respect to any applicant, registrant, or licensee
25         by any public body cooperating with or engaged in
26         professional or occupational registration, licensure,

 

 

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1         or discipline.
2             (iii) The names, addresses, or other personal
3         information of participants and registrants in park
4         district, forest preserve district, and conservation
5         district programs.
6         (d) Records in the possession of any public body
7     created in the course of administrative enforcement
8     proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
9     agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
10     that disclosure would:
11             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
12         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
13         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
14         agency that is the recipient of the request;
15             (ii) interfere with active administrative
16         enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
17         that is the recipient of the request;
18             (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
19         person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
20         hearing;
21             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
22         confidential source, confidential information
23         furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
24         who file complaints with or provide information to
25         administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
26         penal agencies; except that the identities of

 

 

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1         witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
2         reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
3         agencies of local government, except when disclosure
4         would interfere with an active criminal investigation
5         conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
6         request;
7             (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
8         techniques other than those generally used and known or
9         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
10         related to detection, observation or investigation of
11         incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
12         result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
13         body that is the recipient of the request;
14             (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
15         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
16             (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
17         by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
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 (i) All trade secrets and commercial or financial
14     information obtained by a public body, including a public
15     pension fund, from a private equity fund or a privately
16     held company within the investment portfolio of a private
17     equity fund as a result of either investing or evaluating a
18     potential investment of public funds in a private equity
19     fund. The exemption contained in this item does not apply
20     to the aggregate financial performance information of a
21     private equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's
22     managers or general partners. The exemption contained in
23     this item does not apply to the identity of a privately
24     held company within the investment portfolio of a private
25     equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
26     privately held 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) (tt) 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) (tt) Information the disclosure of which is
17     exempted under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
18     (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
19 public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
20 agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
21 behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
22 governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
23 Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
24 for purposes of this Act.
25     (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
26 information or limit the availability of records to the public,

 

 

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1 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
2 Act.
3 (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07;
4 95-941, eff. 8-29-08; 95-988, eff. 6-1-09; 96-261, eff. 1-1-10;
5 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10;
6 96-736, eff. 7-1-10; revised 9-25-09.)
 
7     Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes
8 changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text
9 that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section
10 represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does
11 not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes
12 made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other
13 Public Act.
 
14     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
15 2010.