95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1244

 

Introduced 2/15/2007, by Rep. James H. Meyer

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
750 ILCS 60/Art. V heading new
750 ILCS 60/501 new
750 ILCS 60/505 new
750 ILCS 60/510 new
750 ILCS 60/515 new
5 ILCS 140/7   from Ch. 116, par. 207

    Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Creates the Domestic Violence Prevention Review Board. Authorizes the Board to create Domestic Violence Fatality Review Teams to gather and review information concerning fatal and near-fatal violence incidents, including suicides. Provides that information relevant to the investigation of a crime may be disclosed by a Team only to the prosecuting attorney or to a law enforcement agency or may be made available to the Attorney General, upon request. Limits the liability for a Team member or a person providing information to a Team for civil damages arising out of an official act or an omission during the gathering or processing of information by a Team, except for acts or omissions that constitute willful or wanton misconduct on the part of the member or person providing information or acts performed outside the scope of the authority of the Team. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Exempts information gathered by a Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team from the requirements of the Act. Effective immediately.


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1     AN ACT concerning domestic violence.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 is
5 amended by adding Article V as follows:
 
6     (750 ILCS 60/Art. V heading new)
7
ARTICLE V
8
FATALITY REVIEW TEAMS

 
9     (750 ILCS 60/501 new)
10     Sec. 501. Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment
11 Board.
12     (a) There is hereby created the Domestic Violence
13 Prevention and Treatment Board.
14     (b) The Board shall consist of 9 members appointed as soon
15 as possible after this amendatory Act of the 95th General
16 Assembly takes effect. The members shall be appointed as
17 follows: one member appointed by the Speaker of the House of
18 Representatives; one member appointed by the Minority Leader of
19 the House of Representatives; one member appointed by the
20 President of the Senate; one member appointed by the Minority
21 Leader of the Senate; and 5 members appointed by the Governor
22 with one member representing domestic violence groups within

 

 

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1 the State, one member from the Illinois State Police, one
2 member representing rape crisis counselors, one member from the
3 Department of Children and Family Services, and one member
4 representing the general public.
5     (c) At its first meeting, the Board shall elect from among
6 its members a Chairperson and other officers it considers
7 necessary or appropriate. After its first meeting, the Board
8 shall meet at least quarterly, or more frequently at the call
9 of the Chairperson or if requested by 5 or more members.
10     (d) A majority of the members of the Board constitute a
11 quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of the
12 Board. A majority of the members present and serving is
13 required for official action of the Board.
14     (e) Members of the Board shall serve without compensation.
15 However, members of the Board may be reimbursed for their
16 actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of
17 their official duties as members of the Board.
18     (f) The Board shall do the following:
19         (1) Authorize the State and a county or counties to
20     establish inter-agency Domestic Violence Fatality Review
21     Teams.
22         (2) Develop guidelines, rules, and protocols under
23     which the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Teams shall
24     operate.
25         (3) Require the Domestic Violence Fatality Review
26     Teams to report annually to the Board concerning the

 

 

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1     information gathered.
2         (4) Provide guidelines concerning the content and
3     format of the reports to the Board.
4         (5) Provide for ongoing training for the Domestic
5     Violence Fatality Review Teams.
 
6     (750 ILCS 60/505 new)
7     Sec. 505. Domestic Violence Fatality Review Teams. The
8 Board shall create Domestic Violence Fatality Review Teams. The
9 Teams shall gather and review information concerning fatal and
10 near-fatal violence incidents, including suicides, and shall
11 report to the Board concerning this information.
 
12     (750 ILCS 60/510 new)
13     Sec. 510. Information; confidentiality.
14     (a) Information obtained or created by the Teams shall be
15 confidential and shall not be subject to civil discovery of the
16 Freedom of Information Act.
17     (b) Documents created by a Team shall not be subject to
18 subpoena, discovery, or introduction into evidence, unless the
19 document would otherwise be available from an alternate source.
20     (c) Information relevant to the investigation of a crime
21 may be disclosed by a Team only to the prosecuting attorney or
22 to a law enforcement agency. Information may also be made
23 available to the Attorney General, upon request.
 

 

 

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1     (750 ILCS 60/515 new)
2     Sec. 515. Liability. No member of a Team and no person
3 providing information to a Team shall be liable for civil
4 damages arising out of an official act or an omission during
5 the gathering or processing of information by a Team, except
6 for acts or omissions that constitute willful or wanton
7 misconduct on the part of the member or person providing
8 information or acts performed outside the scope of the
9 authority of the Team.
 
10     Section 10. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
11 changing Section 7 as follows:
 
12     (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
13     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
14     (1) The following shall be exempt from inspection and
15 copying:
16         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
17     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
18     adopted under federal or State law.
19         (b) Information that, if disclosed, would constitute a
20     clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless
21     the disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
22     subjects of the information. The disclosure of information
23     that bears on the public duties of public employees and
24     officials shall not be considered an invasion of personal

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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1         techniques other than those generally used and known or
2         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
3         related to detection, observation or investigation of
4         incidents of crime or misconduct;
5             (vi) constitute an invasion of personal privacy
6         under subsection (b) of this Section;
7             (vii) endanger the life or physical safety of law
8         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
9             (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation.
10         (d) Criminal history record information maintained by
11     State or local criminal justice agencies, except the
12     following which shall be open for public inspection and
13     copying:
14             (i) chronologically maintained arrest information,
15         such as traditional arrest logs or blotters;
16             (ii) the name of a person in the custody of a law
17         enforcement agency and the charges for which that
18         person is being held;
19             (iii) court records that are public;
20             (iv) records that are otherwise available under
21         State or local law; or
22             (v) records in which the requesting party is the
23         individual identified, except as provided under part
24         (vii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this
25         Section.
26         "Criminal history record information" means data

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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1     determine violation of any criminal law.
2         (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical
3     records received by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
4     Procedures Board and any and all documents or other records
5     prepared by the Experimental Organ Transplantation
6     Procedures Board or its staff relating to applications it
7     has received.
8         (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any
9     intergovernmental risk management association or self
10     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
11     information, records, data, advice or communications.
12         (cc) Information and records held by the Department of
13     Public Health and its authorized representatives relating
14     to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible
15     disease or any information the disclosure of which is
16     restricted under the Illinois Sexually Transmissible
17     Disease Control Act.
18         (dd) Information the disclosure of which is exempted
19     under Section 30 of the Radon Industry Licensing Act.
20         (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55 of
21     the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
22     Qualifications Based Selection Act.
23         (ff) Security portions of system safety program plans,
24     investigation reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or
25     information compiled, collected, or prepared by or for the
26     Regional Transportation Authority under Section 2.11 of

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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1     authorized under that Article.
2         (qq) Defense budgets and petitions for certification
3     of compensation and expenses for court appointed trial
4     counsel as provided under Sections 10 and 15 of the Capital
5     Crimes Litigation Act. This subsection (qq) shall apply
6     until the conclusion of the trial of the case, even if the
7     prosecution chooses not to pursue the death penalty prior
8     to trial or sentencing.
9     (rr) Information gathered by a Domestic Violence Fatality
10 Review Team under Article V of the Illinois Domestic Violence
11 Act of 1986.
12     (2) This Section does not authorize withholding of
13 information or limit the availability of records to the public,
14 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
15 Act.
16 (Source: P.A. 93-43, eff. 7-1-03; 93-209, eff. 7-18-03; 93-237,
17 eff. 7-22-03; 93-325, eff. 7-23-03, 93-422, eff. 8-5-03;
18 93-577, eff. 8-21-03; 93-617, eff. 12-9-03; 94-280, eff.
19 1-1-06; 94-508, eff. 1-1-06; 94-664, eff. 1-1-06; 94-931, eff.
20 6-26-06; 94-953, eff. 6-27-06; 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07; revised
21 8-3-06.)
 
22     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23 becoming law.