98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB5344

 

Introduced , by Rep. Brad E. Halbrook

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 140/2  from Ch. 116, par. 202
5 ILCS 140/2.5

    Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that only for purposes of the Section concerning records of funds, the term "public body" includes probation offices, State's Attorney offices, circuit clerks, and judges. Provides that all records relating to the obligation, receipt, and use of public funds of probation offices, State's Attorney offices, circuit clerks, and judges are public records subject to inspection and copying by the public. Effective immediately.


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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 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
5changing Sections 2 and 2.5 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 140/2)  (from Ch. 116, par. 202)
7    Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act:
8    (a) "Public body" means all legislative, executive,
9administrative, or advisory bodies of the State, state
10universities and colleges, counties, townships, cities,
11villages, incorporated towns, school districts and all other
12municipal corporations, boards, bureaus, committees, or
13commissions of this State, any subsidiary bodies of any of the
14foregoing including but not limited to committees and
15subcommittees thereof, and a School Finance Authority created
16under Article 1E of the School Code. "Public body" does not
17include a child death review team or the Illinois Child Death
18Review Teams Executive Council established under the Child
19Death Review Team Act. Only for purposes of Section 2.5 of this
20Act, "public body" also includes probation offices, State's
21Attorney offices, circuit clerks, and judges.
22    (b) "Person" means any individual, corporation,
23partnership, firm, organization or association, acting

 

 

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1individually or as a group.
2    (c) "Public records" means all records, reports, forms,
3writings, letters, memoranda, books, papers, maps,
4photographs, microfilms, cards, tapes, recordings, electronic
5data processing records, electronic communications, recorded
6information and all other documentary materials pertaining to
7the transaction of public business, regardless of physical form
8or characteristics, having been prepared by or for, or having
9been or being used by, received by, in the possession of, or
10under the control of any public body.
11    (c-5) "Private information" means unique identifiers,
12including a person's social security number, driver's license
13number, employee identification number, biometric identifiers,
14personal financial information, passwords or other access
15codes, medical records, home or personal telephone numbers, and
16personal email addresses. Private information also includes
17home address and personal license plates, except as otherwise
18provided by law or when compiled without possibility of
19attribution to any person.
20    (c-10) "Commercial purpose" means the use of any part of a
21public record or records, or information derived from public
22records, in any form for sale, resale, or solicitation or
23advertisement for sales or services. For purposes of this
24definition, requests made by news media and non-profit,
25scientific, or academic organizations shall not be considered
26to be made for a "commercial purpose" when the principal

 

 

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1purpose of the request is (i) to access and disseminate
2information concerning news and current or passing events, (ii)
3for articles of opinion or features of interest to the public,
4or (iii) for the purpose of academic, scientific, or public
5research or education.
6    (d) "Copying" means the reproduction of any public record
7by means of any photographic, electronic, mechanical or other
8process, device or means now known or hereafter developed and
9available to the public body.
10    (e) "Head of the public body" means the president, mayor,
11chairman, presiding officer, director, superintendent,
12manager, supervisor or individual otherwise holding primary
13executive and administrative authority for the public body, or
14such person's duly authorized designee.
15    (f) "News media" means a newspaper or other periodical
16issued at regular intervals whether in print or electronic
17format, a news service whether in print or electronic format, a
18radio station, a television station, a television network, a
19community antenna television service, or a person or
20corporation engaged in making news reels or other motion
21picture news for public showing.
22    (g) "Recurrent requester", as used in Section 3.2 of this
23Act, means a person that, in the 12 months immediately
24preceding the request, has submitted to the same public body
25(i) a minimum of 50 requests for records, (ii) a minimum of 15
26requests for records within a 30-day period, or (iii) a minimum

 

 

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1of 7 requests for records within a 7-day period. For purposes
2of this definition, requests made by news media and non-profit,
3scientific, or academic organizations shall not be considered
4in calculating the number of requests made in the time periods
5in this definition when the principal purpose of the requests
6is (i) to access and disseminate information concerning news
7and current or passing events, (ii) for articles of opinion or
8features of interest to the public, or (iii) for the purpose of
9academic, scientific, or public research or education.
10    For the purposes of this subsection (g), "request" means a
11written document (or oral request, if the public body chooses
12to honor oral requests) that is submitted to a public body via
13personal delivery, mail, telefax, electronic mail, or other
14means available to the public body and that identifies the
15particular public record the requester seeks. One request may
16identify multiple records to be inspected or copied.
17(Source: P.A. 96-261, eff. 1-1-10; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10;
1896-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-579, eff. 8-26-11.)
 
19    (5 ILCS 140/2.5)
20    Sec. 2.5. Records of funds. All records relating to the
21obligation, receipt, and use of public funds of the State,
22units of local government, and school districts, probation
23offices, State's Attorney offices, circuit clerks, and judges
24are public records subject to inspection and copying by the
25public.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 96-542, eff. 1-1-10.)
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3becoming law.