96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5007

 

Introduced 1/21/2010, by Rep. Arthur L. Turner

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act
5 ILCS 120/2   from Ch. 102, par. 42
5 ILCS 140/7   from Ch. 116, par. 207

    Creates the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review Team Act and amends the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that upon the occurrence of the death of any youth in the Department of Juvenile Justice's custody, the Director of Juvenile Justice shall appoint members and a chairperson to a mortality review team. Provides for membership of the teams. Provides for a team's review of every death of a youth that occurs within a facility of the Department or as the result of an act or incident occurring within a facility of the Department, including as the result of suspected illness, injury, self-harm, or unknown cause. Provides for a team's recommendations to the Director of Juvenile Justice and for the Director's reply; also requires the Director to submit a report to the Executive Inspector General appointed by the Governor under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that team meetings are not subject to the Open Meetings Act and that records and information provided to or maintained by a team are not subject to inspection and copying under the Freedom of Information Act. Provides for indemnification of team members. Effective immediately.


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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review Team Act.
 
6     Section 5. State policy. The following statements are the
7 policy of this State:
8         (1) Understanding that youth have different needs than
9     adults, it is the mission of the Illinois Department of
10     Juvenile Justice to preserve public safety by reducing
11     recidivism. Youth committed to the Department will receive
12     individualized services provided by qualified staff that
13     give them the skills to become productive citizens.
14         (2) When a youth dies while committed to the custody of
15     the Department of Juvenile Justice, the response by the
16     State and the community to the death must include an
17     accurate and complete determination of the cause of death
18     and the development and implementation of measures where
19     necessary and appropriate to prevent future deaths from
20     similar causes.
21         (3) Professionals from diverse disciplines and
22     agencies who have responsibilities for youth and expertise
23     that can promote youth safety and well-being, particularly

 

 

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1     while in State custody, should share their expertise and
2     knowledge so that the goals of determining the causes of
3     youth deaths and preventing future youth deaths can be
4     achieved.
5         (4) A greater understanding of the incidence and causes
6     of deaths of youths in State custody is necessary to aid
7     the prevention of such deaths in the future.
8         (5) Multidisciplinary and multiagency reviews of youth
9     deaths can assist the Department of Juvenile Justice in (i)
10     developing a greater understanding of the incidence and
11     causes of youth deaths and the methods for preventing those
12     deaths, (ii) identifying any deficiencies in services and
13     systems within the Department of Juvenile Justice that may
14     place youth at greater risk for death while in the custody
15     of the Department, and (iii) identifying and implementing
16     improvements to the Department's systems for delivery of
17     such services.
18         (6) Access to information regarding deceased youth and
19     their families by multidisciplinary and multiagency
20     mortality review teams is necessary for those teams to
21     achieve their purposes and duties.
 
22     Section 10. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context
23 requires otherwise:
24     "Department" means the Department of Juvenile Justice.
25     "Director" means the Director of Juvenile Justice.

 

 

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1     "Mortality review team" or "team" means a Department of
2 Juvenile Justice mortality review team appointed pursuant to
3 this Act.
4     "Youth" means any person committed by court order to the
5 custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
 
6     Section 15. Mortality review teams; establishment.
7     (a) Upon the occurrence of the death of any youth in the
8 Department's custody, the Director shall appoint members and a
9 chairperson to a mortality review team. The Director shall make
10 the appointments within 30 days after the youth's death.
11     (b) Each mortality review team shall consist of at least
12 one member from each of the following categories:
13         (1) Pediatrician or other physician.
14         (2) Representative of the Department.
15         (3) State's Attorney or State's Attorney
16     representative.
17         (4) Representative of a local law enforcement agency.
18         (5) Psychologist or psychiatrist.
19         (6) Representative of a local health department.
20         (7) Designee of the Board of Education of the
21     Department of Juvenile Justice School District created
22     under Section 13-40 of the School Code.
23         (8) Coroner or forensic pathologist.
24         (9) Representative of a juvenile justice advocacy
25     organization.

 

 

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1         (10) Representative of a local hospital, trauma
2     center, or provider of emergency medical services.
3         (11) Representative of the Department of State Police.
4     A mortality review team may make recommendations to the
5 Director concerning additional appointments.
6     (c) Each mortality review team member must have
7 demonstrated experience or an interest in welfare of youth in
8 State custody.
9     (d) The mortality review teams shall be funded in the
10 Department's annual budget to provide for the travel expenses
11 of team members and professional services engaged by the team.
12     (e) If a death of a youth in the Department's custody
13 occurs while a prior youth death is under review by a team
14 pursuant to this Act, the Director shall request that the team
15 review the subsequent death.
16     (f) Upon the conclusion of all reporting required under
17 Sections 20, 25, and 30 with respect to a death reviewed by a
18 team, all appointments to the team shall expire.
 
19     Section 20. Reviews of youth deaths.
20     (a) A mortality review team shall review every death of a
21 youth that occurs within a facility of the Department or as the
22 result of an act or incident occurring within a facility of the
23 Department, including deaths resulting from suspected illness,
24 injury, or self-harm or from an unknown cause.
25     (b) If the coroner of the county in which a youth died

 

 

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1 determines that the youth's death was the direct or proximate
2 result of alleged or suspected criminal activity, the mortality
3 review team's investigation shall be in addition to any
4 criminal investigation of the death but shall be limited to a
5 review of systems and practices of the Department. In the
6 course of conducting its review, the team shall obtain
7 assurance from law enforcement officials that acts taken in
8 furtherance of the review will not impair any criminal
9 investigation or prosecution.
10     (c) A mortality review team's purpose in conducting a
11 review of a youth death is to do the following:
12         (1) Assist in determining the cause and manner of the
13     youth’s death, if requested.
14         (2) Evaluate any means by which the death might have
15     been prevented, including evaluation of the Department's
16     systems for the following:
17             (A) Training.
18             (B) Assessment and referral for services.
19             (C) Communication.
20             (D) Housing.
21             (E) Supervision of youth.
22             (F) Intervention in critical incidents.
23             (G) Reporting.
24             (H) Follow-up and mortality review following
25         critical incidents or youth deaths.
26         (3) Promote continuing education and training for

 

 

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1     Department staff.
2         (4) Make specific recommendations to the Director
3     concerning the prevention of deaths of youth in the
4     Department's custody.
5     (d) A mortality review team shall review a youth death as
6 soon as practicable and not later than within 90 days after a
7 law enforcement agency's completion of its investigation if the
8 death is the result of alleged or suspected criminal activity.
9 If there has been no investigation by a law enforcement agency,
10 the mortality review team shall review a youth's death within
11 90 days after obtaining the information necessary to complete
12 the review from the coroner, pathologist, medical examiner, or
13 law enforcement agency, depending on the nature of the case.
14 The team shall meet as needed in person or via teleconference
15 or video conference following appointment of the team members.
16 When necessary and upon request of the team, the Director may
17 extend the deadline for a review up to an additional 90 days.
 
18     Section 25. Director's reply and additional report.
19     (a) As soon as practicable, but not later than 90 days
20 after receipt of the recommendations made by a team pursuant to
21 subdivision (c)(4) of Section 20, the Director shall review and
22 reply to each such recommendation. With respect to each
23 recommendation made by a team, the Director shall submit his or
24 her reply to the chairperson of that team. The Director's reply
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1 the Director intends to implement the recommendation. The
2 Director shall implement a team's recommendations as feasible
3 and appropriate and shall respond in writing to explain the
4 implementation or non-implementation of each recommendation.
5     (b) Within 90 days after the Director submits a reply with
6 respect to a recommendation as required by subsection (a), the
7 Director must submit an additional report to the chairperson of
8 the team that sets forth in detail the way, if any, in which
9 the Director will implement the recommendation and the schedule
10 for implementing the recommendation.
 
11     Section 30. Report to Executive Inspector General. Within
12 180 days after the Director submits a reply under subsection
13 (a) of Section 25 concerning the implementation of a team's
14 recommendation, the Director shall submit a further report to
15 the chairperson of the team that made the recommendation and to
16 the Executive Inspector General appointed by the Governor under
17 Section 20-10 of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act.
18 The Director's report shall set forth any specific changes in
19 the Department's policies and procedures that have been made in
20 response to the team's recommendation.
 
21     Section 35. Team access to information.
22     (a) The Department shall provide to a mortality review
23 team, on the request of the team's chairperson, all records and
24 information in the Department's possession that are relevant to

 

 

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1 the team's review of a youth death.
2     (b) The mortality review team shall have access to all
3 records and information that are relevant to its review of a
4 youth death and in the possession of a State or local
5 governmental agency, including, without limitation, birth
6 certificates, all relevant medical and mental health records,
7 records of law enforcement agency investigations, records of
8 coroner or medical examiner investigations, records of a
9 probation and court services department regarding the youth,
10 and records of a social services agency that provided services
11 to the youth or the youth's family.
12     (c) Each appointed member of a mortality review team shall
13 sign an acknowledgement upon appointment and before
14 participating in meetings or review of records acknowledging
15 the confidentiality of information obtained in the course of
16 the team's review and containing the member's agreement not to
17 reproduce or distribute confidential information obtained in
18 the course of the review.
 
19     Section 40. Public access to information.
20     (a) Meetings of a mortality review team shall be closed to
21 the public. Meetings of the mortality review teams are not
22 subject to the Open Meetings Act, as provided in that Act.
23     (b) Records and information provided to a mortality review
24 team and records maintained by a team are confidential and not
25 subject to inspection and copying under the Freedom of

 

 

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1 Information Act, as provided in that Act.
2     (c) Members of a mortality review team are not subject to
3 examination, in any civil or criminal proceeding, concerning
4 information presented to members of the team or opinions formed
5 by members of the team based on that information. A team member
6 may, however, be examined concerning information provided to
7 the team that is otherwise available to the public.
8     (d) Records and information produced by a mortality review
9 team are not subject to discovery or subpoena and are not
10 admissible as evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding.
11 Those records and information are, however, subject to
12 discovery or a subpoena, and are admissible as evidence, to the
13 extent they are otherwise available to the public.
 
14     Section 45. Indemnification of team members. The State
15 shall indemnify and hold harmless members of a mortality review
16 team for all their acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct
17 arising out of the scope of their service on the team, except
18 for acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct involving
19 willful or wanton misconduct. The method of providing
20 indemnification shall be as provided in the State Employee
21 Indemnification Act.
 
22     Section 90. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
23 Section 2 as follows:
 

 

 

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1     (5 ILCS 120/2)  (from Ch. 102, par. 42)
2     Sec. 2. Open meetings.
3     (a) Openness required. All meetings of public bodies shall
4 be open to the public unless excepted in subsection (c) and
5 closed in accordance with Section 2a.
6     (b) Construction of exceptions. The exceptions contained
7 in subsection (c) are in derogation of the requirement that
8 public bodies meet in the open, and therefore, the exceptions
9 are to be strictly construed, extending only to subjects
10 clearly within their scope. The exceptions authorize but do not
11 require the holding of a closed meeting to discuss a subject
12 included within an enumerated exception.
13     (c) Exceptions. A public body may hold closed meetings to
14 consider the following subjects:
15         (1) The appointment, employment, compensation,
16     discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific
17     employees of the public body or legal counsel for the
18     public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint
19     lodged against an employee of the public body or against
20     legal counsel for the public body to determine its
21     validity.
22         (2) Collective negotiating matters between the public
23     body and its employees or their representatives, or
24     deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more
25     classes of employees.
26         (3) The selection of a person to fill a public office,

 

 

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1     as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public
2     office, when the public body is given power to appoint
3     under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or
4     removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public
5     body is given power to remove the occupant under law or
6     ordinance.
7         (4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or
8     in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law, to
9     a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided
10     that the body prepares and makes available for public
11     inspection a written decision setting forth its
12     determinative reasoning.
13         (5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use
14     of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose
15     of discussing whether a particular parcel should be
16     acquired.
17         (6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of
18     property owned by the public body.
19         (7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or
20     investment contracts.
21         (8) Security procedures and the use of personnel and
22     equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a
23     reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees,
24     students, staff, the public, or public property.
25         (9) Student disciplinary cases.
26         (10) The placement of individual students in special

 

 

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1     education programs and other matters relating to
2     individual students.
3         (11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or
4     on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and
5     is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or
6     when the public body finds that an action is probable or
7     imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be
8     recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed
9     meeting.
10         (12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of
11     claims as provided in the Local Governmental and
12     Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the
13     disposition of a claim or potential claim might be
14     prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or
15     risk management information, records, data, advice or
16     communications from or with respect to any insurer of the
17     public body or any intergovernmental risk management
18     association or self insurance pool of which the public body
19     is a member.
20         (13) Conciliation of complaints of discrimination in
21     the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings are
22     authorized by the law or ordinance prescribing fair housing
23     practices and creating a commission or administrative
24     agency for their enforcement.
25         (14) Informant sources, the hiring or assignment of
26     undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing, prior or

 

 

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1     future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public
2     body with criminal investigatory responsibilities.
3         (15) Professional ethics or performance when
4     considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
5     licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the
6     advisory body's field of competence.
7         (16) Self evaluation, practices and procedures or
8     professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of
9     a statewide association of which the public body is a
10     member.
11         (17) The recruitment, credentialing, discipline or
12     formal peer review of physicians or other health care
13     professionals for a hospital, or other institution
14     providing medical care, that is operated by the public
15     body.
16         (18) Deliberations for decisions of the Prisoner
17     Review Board.
18         (19) Review or discussion of applications received
19     under the Experimental Organ Transplantation Procedures
20     Act.
21         (20) The classification and discussion of matters
22     classified as confidential or continued confidential by
23     the State Government Suggestion Award Board.
24         (21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed
25     under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the
26     body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as

 

 

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1     mandated by Section 2.06.
2         (22) Deliberations for decisions of the State
3     Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board.
4         (23) The operation by a municipality of a municipal
5     utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or
6     municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves
7     (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale, or delivery
8     of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or
9     conclusions of load forecast studies.
10         (24) Meetings of a residential health care facility
11     resident sexual assault and death review team or the
12     Executive Council under the Abuse Prevention Review Team
13     Act.
14         (25) Meetings of a mortality review team appointed
15     under the Department of Juvenile Justice Mortality Review
16     Team Act.
17     (d) Definitions. For purposes of this Section:
18     "Employee" means a person employed by a public body whose
19 relationship with the public body constitutes an
20 employer-employee relationship under the usual common law
21 rules, and who is not an independent contractor.
22     "Public office" means a position created by or under the
23 Constitution or laws of this State, the occupant of which is
24 charged with the exercise of some portion of the sovereign
25 power of this State. The term "public office" shall include
26 members of the public body, but it shall not include

 

 

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1 organizational positions filled by members thereof, whether
2 established by law or by a public body itself, that exist to
3 assist the body in the conduct of its business.
4     "Quasi-adjudicative body" means an administrative body
5 charged by law or ordinance with the responsibility to conduct
6 hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make
7 determinations based thereon, but does not include local
8 electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition
9 challenges.
10     (e) Final action. No final action may be taken at a closed
11 meeting. Final action shall be preceded by a public recital of
12 the nature of the matter being considered and other information
13 that will inform the public of the business being conducted.
14 (Source: P.A. 94-931, eff. 6-26-06; 95-185, eff. 1-1-08.)
 
15     Section 92. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
16 changing Section 7 as follows:
 
17     (5 ILCS 140/7)  (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
18     (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 96-736)
19     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
20     (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
21 record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
22 under this Section, but also contains information that is not
23 exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
24 information that is exempt. The public body shall make the

 

 

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1 remaining information available for inspection and copying.
2 Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
3 inspection and copying:
4         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
5     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
6     implementing federal or State law.
7         (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
8     by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
9     a court order.
10         (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
11     maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
12     specifically designed to provide information to one or more
13     law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
14     status of one or more individual subjects.
15         (c) Personal information contained within public
16     records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
17     unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
18     disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
19     subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
20     personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
21     is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
22     and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
23     legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
24     The disclosure of information that bears on the public
25     duties of public employees and officials shall not be
26     considered an invasion of personal privacy.

 

 

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1         (d) Records in the possession of any public body
2     created in the course of administrative enforcement
3     proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
4     agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
5     that disclosure would:
6             (i) interfere with pending or actually and
7         reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
8         conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
9         agency that is the recipient of the request;
10             (ii) interfere with active administrative
11         enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
12         that is the recipient of the request;
13             (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
14         person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
15         hearing;
16             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
17         confidential source, confidential information
18         furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
19         who file complaints with or provide information to
20         administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
21         penal agencies; except that the identities of
22         witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
23         reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
24         agencies of local government, except when disclosure
25         would interfere with an active criminal investigation
26         conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the

 

 

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1         request;
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, and disclosure would
7         result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
8         body that is the recipient of the request;
9             (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
10         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
11             (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
12         by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
13         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
14     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
15         (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
16     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
17     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
18     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
19     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
20     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
21     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
22     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
23     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
24         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
25     information obtained from a person or business where the
26     trade secrets or commercial or financial information are

 

 

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1     furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
2     privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
3     trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
4     cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
5     insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
6     requested.
7         The information included under this exemption includes
8     all (i) All trade secrets and commercial or financial
9     information obtained by a public body, including a public
10     pension fund, from a private equity fund or a privately
11     held company within the investment portfolio of a private
12     equity fund as a result of either investing or evaluating a
13     potential investment of public funds in a private equity
14     fund. The exemption contained in this item does not apply
15     to the aggregate financial performance information of a
16     private equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's
17     managers or general partners. The exemption contained in
18     this item does not apply to the identity of a privately
19     held 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
23     construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
24     to disclosure.
25         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
26     agreement, including information which if it were

 

 

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1     disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
2     to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
3     agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
4     is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
5     preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
6     award or final selection is made.
7         (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
8     designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
9     any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
10     expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
11     exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
12     this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
13     media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
14     requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
15     purpose of the request is to access and disseminate
16     information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
17     legal rights of the general public.
18         (j) The following information pertaining to
19     educational matters:
20             (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
21         examination data used to administer an academic
22         examination;
23             (ii) information received by a primary or
24         secondary school, college, or university under its
25         procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
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1             (iii) information concerning a school or
2         university's adjudication of student disciplinary
3         cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
4         unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
5             (iv) course materials or research materials used
6         by faculty members.
7         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
8     submissions, and other construction related technical
9     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
10     whole or in part with public funds and the same for
11     projects constructed or developed with public funds,
12     including but not limited to power generating and
13     distribution stations and other transmission and
14     distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
15     airport facilities, sport stadiums, convention centers,
16     and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
17     but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
18     security.
19         (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
20     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
21     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
22     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
23         (m) Communications between a public body and an
24     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
25     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
26     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in

 

 

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1     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
2     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
3     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
4     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
5         (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
6     employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this
7     exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
8     which discipline is imposed.
9         (o) Administrative or technical information associated
10     with automated data processing operations, including but
11     not limited to software, operating protocols, computer
12     program abstracts, file layouts, source listings, object
13     modules, load modules, user guides, documentation
14     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
15     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other
16     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
17     security of the system or its data or the security of
18     materials exempt under this Section.
19         (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
20     between public bodies and their employees or
21     representatives, except that any final contract or
22     agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
23         (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
24     examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
25     applicant for a license or employment.
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1     to real estate purchase negotiations until those
2     negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
3     With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
4     and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
5     under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
6     information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
7     as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
8     Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
9     information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
10     until a sale is consummated.
11         (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
12     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
13     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
14     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
15     Insurance or self insurance (including any
16     intergovernmental risk management association or self
17     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
18     information, records, data, advice or communications.
19         (t) Information contained in or related to
20     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
21     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
22     for the regulation or supervision of financial
23     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
24     otherwise required by State law.
25         (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
26     the disclosure of secret or confidential information,

 

 

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1     codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
2     used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
3     Electronic Commerce Security Act.
4         (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
5     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
6     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
7     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
8     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
9     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
10     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
11     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
12     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
13     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
14     include such things as details pertaining to the
15     mobilization or deployment of personnel or equipment, to
16     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
17     tactical operations.
18         (w) (Blank).
19         (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
20     security of generation, transmission, distribution,
21     storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
22     owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
23     Illinois Power Agency.
24         (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
25     bids, or negotiations related to electric power
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1     Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
2     is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
3     Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
4     Commission.
5         (z) (tt) Information about students exempted from
6     disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
7     School Code, and information about undergraduate students
8     enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
9     from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
10     Card Marketing Act of 2009.
11         (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
12     review team and records maintained by a mortality review
13     team appointed under the Department of Juvenile Justice
14     Mortality Review Team Act.
15     (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
16 public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
17 agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
18 behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
19 governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
20 Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
21 for purposes of this Act.
22     (3) 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.
26 (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07;

 

 

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1 95-941, eff. 8-29-08; 95-988, eff. 6-1-09; 96-261, eff. 1-1-10;
2 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10;
3 revised 9-25-09.)
 
4     (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 96-736)
5     Sec. 7. Exemptions.
6     (1) When a request is made to inspect or copy a public
7 record that contains information that is exempt from disclosure
8 under this Section, but also contains information that is not
9 exempt from disclosure, the public body may elect to redact the
10 information that is exempt. The public body shall make the
11 remaining information available for inspection and copying.
12 Subject to this requirement, the following shall be exempt from
13 inspection and copying:
14         (a) Information specifically prohibited from
15     disclosure by federal or State law or rules and regulations
16     implementing federal or State law.
17         (b) Private information, unless disclosure is required
18     by another provision of this Act, a State or federal law or
19     a court order.
20         (b-5) Files, documents, and other data or databases
21     maintained by one or more law enforcement agencies and
22     specifically designed to provide information to one or more
23     law enforcement agencies regarding the physical or mental
24     status of one or more individual subjects.
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1     records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
2     unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, unless the
3     disclosure is consented to in writing by the individual
4     subjects of the information. "Unwarranted invasion of
5     personal privacy" means the disclosure of information that
6     is highly personal or objectionable to a reasonable person
7     and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
8     legitimate public interest in obtaining the information.
9     The disclosure of information that bears on the public
10     duties of public employees and officials shall not be
11     considered an invasion of personal privacy.
12         (d) Records in the possession of any public body
13     created in the course of administrative enforcement
14     proceedings, and any law enforcement or correctional
15     agency for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent
16     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 that is the recipient of the request;
21             (ii) interfere with active administrative
22         enforcement proceedings conducted by the public body
23         that is the recipient of the request;
24             (iii) create a substantial likelihood that a
25         person will be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial
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1             (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
2         confidential source, confidential information
3         furnished only by the confidential source, or persons
4         who file complaints with or provide information to
5         administrative, investigative, law enforcement, or
6         penal agencies; except that the identities of
7         witnesses to traffic accidents, traffic accident
8         reports, and rescue reports shall be provided by
9         agencies of local government, except when disclosure
10         would interfere with an active criminal investigation
11         conducted by the agency that is the recipient of the
12         request;
13             (v) disclose unique or specialized investigative
14         techniques other than those generally used and known or
15         disclose internal documents of correctional agencies
16         related to detection, observation or investigation of
17         incidents of crime or misconduct, and disclosure would
18         result in demonstrable harm to the agency or public
19         body that is the recipient of the request;
20             (vi) endanger the life or physical safety of law
21         enforcement personnel or any other person; or
22             (vii) obstruct an ongoing criminal investigation
23         by the agency that is the recipient of the request.
24         (e) Records that relate to or affect the security of
25     correctional institutions and detention facilities.
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1     memoranda and other records in which opinions are
2     expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
3     that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
4     shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
5     identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
6     provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those records
7     of officers and agencies of the General Assembly that
8     pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
9         (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
10     information obtained from a person or business where the
11     trade secrets or commercial or financial information are
12     furnished under a claim that they are proprietary,
13     privileged or confidential, and that disclosure of the
14     trade secrets or commercial or financial information would
15     cause competitive harm to the person or business, and only
16     insofar as the claim directly applies to the records
17     requested.
18         The information included under this exemption includes
19     all (i) All trade secrets and commercial or financial
20     information obtained by a public body, including a public
21     pension fund, from a private equity fund or a privately
22     held company within the investment portfolio of a private
23     equity fund as a result of either investing or evaluating a
24     potential investment of public funds in a private equity
25     fund. The exemption contained in this item does not apply
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1     private equity fund, nor to the identity of the fund's
2     managers or general partners. The exemption contained in
3     this item does not apply to the identity of a privately
4     held company within the investment portfolio of a private
5     equity fund, unless the disclosure of the identity of a
6     privately held company may cause competitive harm.
7         Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
8     construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
9     to disclosure.
10         (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
11     agreement, including information which if it were
12     disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an advantage
13     to any person proposing to enter into a contractor
14     agreement with the body, until an award or final selection
15     is made. Information prepared by or for the body in
16     preparation of a bid solicitation shall be exempt until an
17     award or final selection is made.
18         (i) Valuable formulae, computer geographic systems,
19     designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by
20     any public body when disclosure could reasonably be
21     expected to produce private gain or public loss. The
22     exemption for "computer geographic systems" provided in
23     this paragraph (i) does not extend to requests made by news
24     media as defined in Section 2 of this Act when the
25     requested information is not otherwise exempt and the only
26     purpose of the request is to access and disseminate

 

 

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1     information regarding the health, safety, welfare, or
2     legal rights of the general public.
3         (j) The following information pertaining to
4     educational matters:
5             (i) test questions, scoring keys and other
6         examination data used to administer an academic
7         examination;
8             (ii) information received by a primary or
9         secondary school, college, or university under its
10         procedures for the evaluation of faculty members by
11         their academic peers;
12             (iii) information concerning a school or
13         university's adjudication of student disciplinary
14         cases, but only to the extent that disclosure would
15         unavoidably reveal the identity of the student; and
16             (iv) course materials or research materials used
17         by faculty members.
18         (k) Architects' plans, engineers' technical
19     submissions, and other construction related technical
20     documents for projects not constructed or developed in
21     whole or in part with public funds and the same for
22     projects constructed or developed with public funds,
23     including but not limited to power generating and
24     distribution stations and other transmission and
25     distribution facilities, water treatment facilities,
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1     and all government owned, operated, or occupied buildings,
2     but only to the extent that disclosure would compromise
3     security.
4         (l) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to the
5     public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
6     public body makes the minutes available to the public under
7     Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
8         (m) Communications between a public body and an
9     attorney or auditor representing the public body that would
10     not be subject to discovery in litigation, and materials
11     prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
12     anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
13     proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
14     public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
15     respect to internal audits of public bodies.
16         (n) Records relating to a public body's adjudication of
17     employee grievances or disciplinary cases; however, this
18     exemption shall not extend to the final outcome of cases in
19     which discipline is imposed.
20         (o) 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
25     pertaining to all logical and physical design of
26     computerized systems, employee manuals, and any other

 

 

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1     information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the
2     security of the system or its data or the security of
3     materials exempt under this Section.
4         (p) Records relating to collective negotiating matters
5     between public bodies and their employees or
6     representatives, except that any final contract or
7     agreement shall be subject to inspection and copying.
8         (q) Test questions, scoring keys, and other
9     examination data used to determine the qualifications of an
10     applicant for a license or employment.
11         (r) The records, documents, and information relating
12     to real estate purchase negotiations until those
13     negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
14     With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
15     and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
16     under the Eminent Domain Act, records, documents and
17     information relating to that parcel shall be exempt except
18     as may be allowed under discovery rules adopted by the
19     Illinois Supreme Court. The records, documents and
20     information relating to a real estate sale shall be exempt
21     until a sale is consummated.
22         (s) Any and all proprietary information and records
23     related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
24     management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
25     self-administered health and accident cooperative or pool.
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1     intergovernmental risk management association or self
2     insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
3     information, records, data, advice or communications.
4         (t) Information contained in or related to
5     examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
6     on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
7     for the regulation or supervision of financial
8     institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
9     otherwise required by State law.
10         (u) Information that would disclose or might lead to
11     the disclosure of secret or confidential information,
12     codes, algorithms, programs, or private keys intended to be
13     used to create electronic or digital signatures under the
14     Electronic Commerce Security Act.
15         (v) Vulnerability assessments, security measures, and
16     response policies or plans that are designed to identify,
17     prevent, or respond to potential attacks upon a community's
18     population or systems, facilities, or installations, the
19     destruction or contamination of which would constitute a
20     clear and present danger to the health or safety of the
21     community, but only to the extent that disclosure could
22     reasonably be expected to jeopardize the effectiveness of
23     the measures or the safety of the personnel who implement
24     them or the public. Information exempt under this item may
25     include such things as details pertaining to the
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1     the operation of communication systems or protocols, or to
2     tactical operations.
3         (w) (Blank).
4         (x) Maps and other records regarding the location or
5     security of generation, transmission, distribution,
6     storage, gathering, treatment, or switching facilities
7     owned by a utility, by a power generator, or by the
8     Illinois Power Agency.
9         (y) Information contained in or related to proposals,
10     bids, or negotiations related to electric power
11     procurement under Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency
12     Act and Section 16-111.5 of the Public Utilities Act that
13     is determined to be confidential and proprietary by the
14     Illinois Power Agency or by the Illinois Commerce
15     Commission.
16         (z) (tt) Information about students exempted from
17     disclosure under Sections 10-20.38 or 34-18.29 of the
18     School Code, and information about undergraduate students
19     enrolled at an institution of higher education exempted
20     from disclosure under Section 25 of the Illinois Credit
21     Card Marketing Act of 2009.
22         (aa) (tt) Information the disclosure of which is
23     exempted under the Viatical Settlements Act of 2009.
24         (bb) Records and information provided to a mortality
25     review team and records maintained by a mortality review
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1     Mortality Review Team Act.
2     (2) A public record that is not in the possession of a
3 public body but is in the possession of a party with whom the
4 agency has contracted to perform a governmental function on
5 behalf of the public body, and that directly relates to the
6 governmental function and is not otherwise exempt under this
7 Act, shall be considered a public record of the public body,
8 for purposes of this Act.
9     (3) This Section does not authorize withholding of
10 information or limit the availability of records to the public,
11 except as stated in this Section or otherwise provided in this
12 Act.
13 (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-481, eff. 8-28-07;
14 95-941, eff. 8-29-08; 95-988, eff. 6-1-09; 96-261, eff. 1-1-10;
15 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-542, eff. 1-1-10; 96-558, eff. 1-1-10;
16 96-736, eff. 7-1-10; revised 9-25-09.)
 
17     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18 becoming law.