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750 ILCS 61/5

(750 ILCS 61/5)

Sec. 5. Legislative findings.

The General Assembly finds that persons attempting to escape from actual or
threatened domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, or stalking frequently establish new addresses in order to
prevent their assailants or probable assailants from finding them. The
purpose of this Act is to enable State and local agencies to respond to
requests for public records without disclosing the location of a victim of
domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, or stalking, to enable interagency cooperation with the Attorney
General in providing address confidentiality for victims of domestic
violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, or stalking, and to enable State and local agencies to accept a program
participant's use of an address designated by the Attorney General as a
substitute mailing address.

(Source: P.A. 101-270, eff. 1-1-21; 102-292, eff. 1-1-22.)