Sen. Deanna Demuzio

Filed: 4/25/2007

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 399

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 399 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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

 

 

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1     that bears on the public duties of public employees and
2     officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal
3     privacy. Information exempted under this subsection (b)
4     shall include but is not limited to:
5             (i) files and personal information maintained with
6         respect to clients, patients, residents, students or
7         other individuals receiving social, medical,
8         educational, vocational, financial, supervisory or
9         custodial care or services directly or indirectly from
10         federal agencies or public bodies;
11             (ii) personnel files and personal information
12         maintained with respect to employees, appointees or
13         elected officials of any public body or applicants for
14         those positions;
15             (iii) files and personal information maintained
16         with respect to any applicant, registrant or licensee
17         by any public body cooperating with or engaged in
18         professional or occupational registration, licensure
19         or discipline;
20             (iv) information required of any taxpayer in
21         connection with the assessment or collection of any tax
22         unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
23         statute;
24             (v) information revealing the identity of persons
25         who file complaints with or provide information to
26         administrative, investigative, law enforcement or

 

 

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1         penal agencies; provided, however, that identification
2         of witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
3         reports, and rescue reports may be provided by agencies
4         of local government, except in a case for which a
5         criminal investigation is ongoing, without
6         constituting a clearly unwarranted per se invasion of
7         personal privacy under this subsection; and
8             (vi) the names, addresses, or other personal
9         information of participants and registrants in park
10         district, forest preserve district, and conservation
11         district programs.
12         (c) Records compiled by any public body for
13     administrative enforcement proceedings and any law
14     enforcement or correctional agency for law enforcement
15     purposes or for internal matters of a public body, but only
16     to the extent that disclosure would:
17             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
18         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
19         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
20         agency;
21             (ii) interfere with pending administrative
22         enforcement proceedings conducted by any public body;
23             (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an
24         impartial hearing;
25             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
26         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

 

 

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1         Section.
2         "Criminal history record information" means data
3     identifiable to an individual and consisting of
4     descriptions or notations of arrests, detentions,
5     indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
6     or other formal events in the criminal justice system or
7     descriptions or notations of criminal charges (including
8     criminal violations of local municipal ordinances) and the
9     nature of any disposition arising therefrom, including
10     sentencing, court or correctional supervision,
11     rehabilitation and release. The term does not apply to
12     statistical records and reports in which individuals are
13     not identified and from which their identities are not
14     ascertainable, or to information that is for criminal
15     investigative or intelligence purposes.
16         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
17     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
18         (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
19     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
20     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
21     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
22     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
23     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
24     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
25     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
26     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.

 

 

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1         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
2     information obtained from a person or business where the
3     trade secrets or information are proprietary, privileged
4     or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
5     or information may cause competitive harm, including:
6             (i) All information determined to be confidential
7         under Section 4002 of the Technology Advancement and
8         Development Act.
9             (ii) All trade secrets and commercial or financial
10         information obtained by a public body, including a
11         public pension fund, from a private equity fund or a
12         privately held company within the investment portfolio
13         of a private equity fund as a result of either
14         investing or evaluating a potential investment of
15         public funds in a private equity fund. The exemption
16         contained in this item does not apply to the aggregate
17         financial performance information of a private equity
18         fund, nor to the identity of the fund's managers or
19         general partners. The exemption contained in this item
20         does not apply to the identity of a privately held
21         company within the investment portfolio of a private
22         equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
23         privately held company may cause competitive harm.
24     Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be construed
25 to prevent a person or business from consenting to disclosure.
26         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or

 

 

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1     agreement, including information which if it were
2     disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
3     to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
4     agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
5     is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
6     preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
7     award or final selection is made.
8         (i) (Blank.) Valuable formulae, computer geographic
9     systems, designs, drawings and research data obtained or
10     produced by any public body when disclosure could
11     reasonably be expected to produce private gain or public
12     loss. The exemption for "computer geographic systems"
13     provided in this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests
14     made by news media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when
15     the requested information is not otherwise exempt and the
16     only purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
17     information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
18     legal rights of the general public.
19         (j) Test questions, scoring keys and other examination
20     data used to administer an academic examination or
21     determined the qualifications of an applicant for a license
22     or employment.
23         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
24     submissions, and other construction related technical
25     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
26     whole or in part with public funds and the same for

 

 

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1     projects constructed or developed with public funds, but
2     only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
3     security, including but not limited to water treatment
4     facilities, airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention
5     centers, and all government owned, operated, or occupied
6     buildings.
7         (l) Library circulation and order records identifying
8     library users with specific materials.
9         (m) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
10     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
11     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
12     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
13         (n) Communications between a public body and an
14     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
15     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
16     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
17     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
18     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
19     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
20     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
21         (o) Information received by a primary or secondary
22     school, college or university under its procedures for the
23     evaluation of faculty members by their academic peers.
24         (p) Administrative or technical information associated
25     with automated data processing operations, including but
26     not limited to software, operating protocols, computer

 

 

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1     program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
2     modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
3     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
4     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
5     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
6     security of the system or its data or the security of
7     materials exempt under this Section.
8         (q) Documents or materials relating to collective
9     negotiating matters between public bodies and their
10     employees or representatives, except that any final
11     contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
12     copying.
13         (r) Drafts, notes, recommendations and memoranda
14     pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
15     the public body. The records of ownership, registration,
16     transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
17     of persons to whom payment with respect to these
18     obligations is made.
19         (s) The records, documents and information relating to
20     real estate purchase negotiations until those negotiations
21     have been completed or otherwise terminated. With regard to
22     a parcel involved in a pending or actually and reasonably
23     contemplated eminent domain proceeding under the Eminent
24     Domain Act, records, documents and information relating to
25     that parcel shall be exempt except as may be allowed under
26     discovery rules adopted by the Illinois Supreme Court. The

 

 

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1     records, documents and information relating to a real
2     estate sale shall be exempt until a sale is consummated.
3         (t) Any and all proprietary information and records
4     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
5     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
6     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
7         (u) Information concerning a university's adjudication
8     of student or employee grievance or disciplinary cases, to
9     the extent that disclosure would reveal the identity of the
10     student or employee and information concerning any public
11     body's adjudication of student or employee grievances or
12     disciplinary cases, except for the final outcome of the
13     cases.
14         (v) Course materials or research materials used by
15     faculty members.
16         (w) Information related solely to the internal
17     personnel rules and practices of a public body.
18         (x) Information contained in or related to
19     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
20     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
21     for the regulation or supervision of financial
22     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
23     otherwise required by State law.
24         (y) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
25     under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities Act.
26         (z) Manuals or instruction to staff that relate to

 

 

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1     establishment or collection of liability for any State tax
2     or that relate to investigations by a public body to
3     determine violation of any criminal law.
4         (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical
5     records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
6     Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
7     prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
8     Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
9     has received.
10         (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any
11     intergovernmental risk management association or self
12     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
13     information, records, data, advice or communications.
14         (cc) Information and records held by the Department of
15     Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
16     to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
17     disease or any information the disclosure of which is
18     restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
19     Disease Control Act.
20         (dd) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
21     under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
22         (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
23     the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
24     Qualifications Based Selection Act.
25         (ff) Security portions of system safety program plans,
26     investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or

 

 

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1     information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
2     Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of
3     the Regional Transportation Authority Act or the St. Clair
4     County Transit District under the Bi-State Transit Safety
5     Act.
6         (gg) Information the disclosure of which is restricted
7     and exempted under Section 50 of the Illinois Prepaid
8     Tuition Act.
9         (hh) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
10     under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
11         (ii) Beginning July 1, 1999, information that would
12     disclose or might lead to the disclosure of secret or
13     confidential information, codes, algorithms, programs, or
14     private keys intended to be used to create electronic or
15     digital signatures under the Electronic Commerce Security
16     Act.
17         (jj) Information contained in a local emergency energy
18     plan submitted to a municipality in accordance with a local
19     emergency energy plan ordinance that is adopted under
20     Section 11-21.5-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
21         (kk) Information and data concerning the distribution
22     of surcharge moneys collected and remitted by wireless
23     carriers under the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety
24     Act.
25         (ll) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
26     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,

 

 

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1     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
2     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
3     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
4     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
5     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
6     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
7     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
8     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
9     include such things as details pertaining to the
10     mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
11     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
12     tactical operations.
13         (mm) Maps and other records regarding the location or
14     security of a utility's generation, transmission,
15     distribution, storage, gathering, treatment, or switching
16     facilities.
17         (nn) Law enforcement officer identification
18     information or driver identification information compiled
19     by a law enforcement agency or the Department of
20     Transportation under Section 11-212 of the Illinois
21     Vehicle Code.
22         (oo) Records and information provided to a residential
23     health care facility resident sexual assault and death
24     review team or the Executive Council under the Abuse
25     Prevention Review Team Act.
26         (pp) Information provided to the predatory lending

 

 

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1     database created pursuant to Article 3 of the Residential
2     Real Property Disclosure Act, except to the extent
3     authorized under that Article.
4         (qq) Defense budgets and petitions for certification
5     of compensation and expenses for court appointed trial
6     counsel as provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital
7     Crimes Litigation Act. This subsection (qq) shall apply
8     until the conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the
9     prosecution chooses not to pursue the death penalty prior
10     to trial or sentencing.
11     (2) This Section does not authorize withholding of
12 information or limit the availability of records to the public,
13 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
14 Act.
15 (Source: P.A. 93-43, eff. 7-1-03; 93-209, eff. 7-18-03; 93-237,
16 eff. 7-22-03; 93-325, eff. 7-23-03, 93-422, eff. 8-5-03;
17 93-577, eff. 8-21-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 94-280, eff.
18 1-1-06; 94-508, eff. 1-1-06; 94-664, eff. 1-1-06; 94-931, eff.
19 6-26-06; 94-953, eff. 6-27-06; 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07; revised
20 8-3-06.)".