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1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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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)
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7 | Sec. 7. Exemptions.
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8 | (1) The following shall be exempt from inspection and | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | copying:
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10 | (a) Information specifically prohibited from | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | disclosure by federal or
State law or rules and regulations | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | adopted under federal or State law.
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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
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19 | privacy. Information exempted under this subsection (b) | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | shall include but
is not limited to:
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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
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25 | custodial care or services directly or indirectly from | |||||||||||||||||||
26 | federal agencies
or public bodies;
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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
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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.
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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:
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27 | (i) interfere with pending or actually and | ||||||
28 | reasonably contemplated
law enforcement proceedings | ||||||
29 | conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
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30 | agency;
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31 | (ii) interfere with pending administrative | ||||||
32 | enforcement proceedings
conducted by any public body;
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33 | (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an | ||||||
34 | impartial hearing;
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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;
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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
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6 | incidents of crime or misconduct;
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7 | (vi) constitute an invasion of personal privacy | ||||||
8 | under subsection (b) of
this Section;
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9 | (vii) endanger the life or physical safety of law | ||||||
10 | enforcement personnel
or any other person; or
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11 | (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation.
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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:
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16 | (i) chronologically maintained arrest information, | ||||||
17 | such as traditional
arrest logs or blotters;
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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;
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21 | (iii) court records that are public;
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22 | (iv) records that are otherwise available under | ||||||
23 | State or local law; or
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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.
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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.
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6 | (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of | ||||||
7 | correctional
institutions and detention facilities.
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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.
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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
information determined to be confidential | ||||||
23 | under Section 4002 of the
Technology Advancement and | ||||||
24 | Development Act. | ||||||
25 | (ii) All trade secrets and commercial or financial | ||||||
26 | information obtained by a public body, including a | ||||||
27 | public pension fund, from a private equity fund or a | ||||||
28 | privately held company within the investment portfolio | ||||||
29 | of a private equity fund as a result of either | ||||||
30 | investing or evaluating a potential investment of | ||||||
31 | public funds in a private equity fund. The exemption | ||||||
32 | contained in this item does not apply to the aggregate | ||||||
33 | financial performance information of a private equity | ||||||
34 | fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or | ||||||
35 | general partners. The exemption contained in this item | ||||||
36 | does not apply to the identity of a privately held |
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1 | company within the investment portfolio of a private | ||||||
2 | equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a | ||||||
3 | privately held company may cause competitive harm.
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4 | Nothing contained in this
paragraph (g) shall be construed | ||||||
5 | to prevent a person or business from
consenting to disclosure.
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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.
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14 | (i) Valuable formulae,
computer geographic systems,
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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
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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.
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25 | (j) Test questions, scoring keys and other examination | ||||||
26 | data used to
administer an academic examination or | ||||||
27 | determined the qualifications of an
applicant for a license | ||||||
28 | or employment.
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29 | (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical | ||||||
30 | submissions, and
other
construction related technical | ||||||
31 | documents for
projects not constructed or developed in | ||||||
32 | whole or in part with public funds
and the same for | ||||||
33 | projects constructed or developed with public funds, but
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34 | only to the extent
that disclosure would compromise | ||||||
35 | security, including but not limited to water
treatment | ||||||
36 | facilities, airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention |
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1 | centers,
and all government owned, operated, or occupied | ||||||
2 | buildings.
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3 | (l) Library circulation and order records identifying | ||||||
4 | library users with
specific materials.
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5 | (m) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
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6 | public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the | ||||||
7 | public body
makes the minutes available to the public under | ||||||
8 | Section 2.06 of the Open
Meetings Act.
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9 | (n) Communications between a public body and an | ||||||
10 | attorney or auditor
representing the public body that would | ||||||
11 | not be subject to discovery in
litigation, and materials | ||||||
12 | prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
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13 | anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative | ||||||
14 | proceeding upon the
request of an attorney advising the | ||||||
15 | public body, and materials prepared or
compiled with | ||||||
16 | respect to internal audits of public bodies.
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17 | (o) Information received by a primary or secondary | ||||||
18 | school, college or
university under its procedures for the | ||||||
19 | evaluation of faculty members by
their academic peers.
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20 | (p) Administrative or technical information associated | ||||||
21 | with automated
data processing operations, including but | ||||||
22 | not limited to software,
operating protocols, computer | ||||||
23 | program abstracts, file layouts, source
listings, object | ||||||
24 | modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
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25 | pertaining to all logical and physical design of | ||||||
26 | computerized systems,
employee manuals, and any other | ||||||
27 | information that, if disclosed, would
jeopardize the | ||||||
28 | security of the system or its data or the security of
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29 | materials exempt under this Section.
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30 | (q) Documents or materials relating to collective | ||||||
31 | negotiating matters
between public bodies and their | ||||||
32 | employees or representatives, except that
any final | ||||||
33 | contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection and | ||||||
34 | copying.
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35 | (r) Drafts, notes, recommendations and memoranda | ||||||
36 | pertaining to the
financing and marketing transactions of |
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1 | the public body. The records of
ownership, registration, | ||||||
2 | transfer, and exchange of municipal debt
obligations, and | ||||||
3 | of persons to whom payment with respect to these | ||||||
4 | obligations
is made.
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5 | (s) The records, documents and information relating to | ||||||
6 | real estate
purchase negotiations until those negotiations | ||||||
7 | have been completed or
otherwise terminated. With regard to | ||||||
8 | a parcel involved in a pending or
actually and reasonably | ||||||
9 | contemplated eminent domain proceeding under
Article VII | ||||||
10 | of the Code of Civil Procedure, records, documents and
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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.
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16 | (t) 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.
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20 | (u) Information concerning a university's adjudication | ||||||
21 | of student or
employee grievance or disciplinary cases, to | ||||||
22 | the extent that disclosure
would reveal the identity of the | ||||||
23 | student or employee and information
concerning any public | ||||||
24 | body's adjudication of student or employee grievances
or | ||||||
25 | disciplinary cases, except for the final outcome of the | ||||||
26 | cases.
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27 | (v) Course materials or research materials used by | ||||||
28 | faculty members.
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29 | (w) Information related solely to the internal | ||||||
30 | personnel rules and
practices of a public body.
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31 | (x) Information contained in or related to | ||||||
32 | examination, operating, or
condition reports prepared by, | ||||||
33 | on behalf of, or for the use of a public
body responsible | ||||||
34 | for the regulation or supervision of financial
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35 | institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is | ||||||
36 | otherwise
required by State law.
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1 | (y) Information the disclosure of which is restricted | ||||||
2 | under Section
5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
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3 | (z) Manuals or instruction to staff that relate to | ||||||
4 | establishment or
collection of liability for any State tax | ||||||
5 | or that relate to investigations
by a public body to | ||||||
6 | determine violation of any criminal law.
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7 | (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical | ||||||
8 | records received by
the Experimental Organ Transplantation | ||||||
9 | Procedures Board and any and all
documents or other records | ||||||
10 | prepared by the Experimental Organ
Transplantation | ||||||
11 | Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications
it | ||||||
12 | has received.
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13 | (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any | ||||||
14 | intergovernmental risk
management association or self | ||||||
15 | insurance pool) claims, loss or risk
management | ||||||
16 | information, records, data, advice or communications.
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17 | (cc) Information and records held by the Department of | ||||||
18 | Public Health and
its authorized representatives relating | ||||||
19 | to known or suspected cases of
sexually transmissible | ||||||
20 | disease or any information the disclosure of which
is | ||||||
21 | restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible | ||||||
22 | Disease Control Act.
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23 | (dd) Information the disclosure of which is exempted | ||||||
24 | under Section 30
of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
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25 | (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of | ||||||
26 | the
Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying | ||||||
27 | Qualifications Based
Selection Act.
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28 | (ff) Security portions of system safety program plans, | ||||||
29 | investigation
reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or | ||||||
30 | information compiled, collected,
or prepared by or for the | ||||||
31 | Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11
of | ||||||
32 | the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair | ||||||
33 | County Transit
District under the
Bi-State Transit Safety | ||||||
34 | Act.
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35 | (gg) Information the disclosure of which is restricted | ||||||
36 | and
exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid |
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1 | Tuition Act.
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2 | (hh) Information the disclosure of which is
exempted | ||||||
3 | under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
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4 | (ii) Beginning July 1, 1999, information that would | ||||||
5 | disclose
or might lead to the disclosure of
secret or | ||||||
6 | confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs, or | ||||||
7 | private
keys intended to be used to create electronic or | ||||||
8 | digital signatures under the
Electronic Commerce Security | ||||||
9 | Act.
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10 | (jj) Information contained in a local emergency energy | ||||||
11 | plan submitted to
a municipality in accordance with a local | ||||||
12 | emergency energy plan ordinance that
is adopted under | ||||||
13 | Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
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14 | (kk) Information and data concerning the distribution | ||||||
15 | of
surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless | ||||||
16 | carriers under the Wireless
Emergency Telephone Safety | ||||||
17 | Act.
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18 | (ll) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and | ||||||
19 | response policies
or plans that are designed to identify, | ||||||
20 | prevent, or respond to potential
attacks upon a community's | ||||||
21 | population or systems, facilities, or installations,
the | ||||||
22 | destruction or contamination of which would constitute a | ||||||
23 | clear and present
danger to the health or safety of the | ||||||
24 | community, but only to the extent that
disclosure could | ||||||
25 | reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of | ||||||
26 | the
measures or the safety of the personnel who implement | ||||||
27 | them or the public.
Information exempt under this item may | ||||||
28 | include such things as details
pertaining to the | ||||||
29 | mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to | ||||||
30 | the
operation of communication systems or protocols, or to | ||||||
31 | tactical operations.
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32 | (mm) Maps and other records regarding the location or | ||||||
33 | security of a
utility's generation, transmission, | ||||||
34 | distribution, storage, gathering,
treatment, or switching | ||||||
35 | facilities.
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36 | (nn) Law enforcement officer identification |
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1 | information or
driver
identification
information compiled | ||||||
2 | by a law enforcement agency or the Department of
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3 | Transportation
under Section 11-212 of the Illinois | ||||||
4 | Vehicle Code.
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5 | (oo) Records and information provided to a residential
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6 | health care
facility resident sexual assault
and death | ||||||
7 | review team or the Residential Health Care Facility | ||||||
8 | Resident Sexual
Assault and Death Review Teams Executive | ||||||
9 | Council under the Residential Health
Care Facility | ||||||
10 | Resident Sexual Assault and Death Review Team Act.
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11 | (pp) Information provided to the predatory lending | ||||||
12 | database created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential | ||||||
13 | Real Property Disclosure Act, except to the extent | ||||||
14 | authorized under that Article.
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15 | (qq)
(pp) Defense budgets and petitions for | ||||||
16 | certification of compensation and expenses for court | ||||||
17 | appointed trial counsel as provided under Sections 10 and | ||||||
18 | 15 of the Capital Crimes Litigation Act. This subsection | ||||||
19 | (qq)
(pp) shall apply until the conclusion of the trial and | ||||||
20 | appeal of the case, even if the prosecution chooses not to | ||||||
21 | pursue the death penalty prior to trial or sentencing.
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22 | (2) This Section does not authorize withholding of | ||||||
23 | information or limit the
availability of records to the public, | ||||||
24 | except as stated in this Section or
otherwise provided in this | ||||||
25 | Act.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 93-43, eff. 7-1-03; 93-209, eff. 7-18-03; 93-237, | ||||||
27 | eff. 7-22-03; 93-325, eff. 7-23-03, 93-422, eff. 8-5-03; | ||||||
28 | 93-577, eff. 8-21-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 94-280, eff. | ||||||
29 | 1-1-06; 94-508, eff. 1-1-06; 94-664, eff. 1-1-06; revised | ||||||
30 | 8-29-05.)
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31 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
32 | becoming law.
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