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1     AN ACT concerning government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing
5 Section 2.06 as follows:
 
6     (5 ILCS 120/2.06)  (from Ch. 102, par. 42.06)
7     Sec. 2.06. Minutes; right to speak.
8     (a) All public bodies shall keep written minutes of all
9 their meetings, whether open or closed, and a verbatim record
10 of all their closed meetings in the form of an audio or video
11 recording. Minutes shall include, but need not be limited to:
12         (1) the date, time and place of the meeting;
13         (2) the members of the public body recorded as either
14     present or absent and whether the members were physically
15     present or present by means of video or audio conference;
16     and
17         (3) a summary of discussion on all matters proposed,
18     deliberated, or decided, and a record of any votes taken.
19     (b) A public body shall approve the minutes of its open
20 meeting within 30 days after that meeting or at the public
21 body's second subsequent regular meeting, whichever is later.
22 The minutes of meetings open to the public shall be available
23 for public inspection within 10 7 days after of the approval of

 

 

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1 such minutes by the public body. Beginning July 1, 2006, at the
2 time it complies with the other requirements of this
3 subsection, a public body that has a website that the full-time
4 staff of the public body maintains shall post the minutes of a
5 regular meeting of its governing body open to the public on the
6 public body's website within 10 7 days after of the approval of
7 the minutes by the public body. Beginning July 1, 2006, any
8 minutes of meetings open to the public posted on the public
9 body's website shall remain posted on the website for at least
10 60 days after their initial posting.
11     (c) The verbatim record may be destroyed without
12 notification to or the approval of a records commission or the
13 State Archivist under the Local Records Act or the State
14 Records Act no less than 18 months after the completion of the
15 meeting recorded but only after:
16         (1) the public body approves the destruction of a
17     particular recording; and
18         (2) the public body approves minutes of the closed
19     meeting that meet the written minutes requirements of
20     subsection (a) of this Section.
21     (d) Each public body shall periodically, but no less than
22 semi-annually, meet to review minutes of all closed meetings.
23 At such meetings a determination shall be made, and reported in
24 an open session that (1) the need for confidentiality still
25 exists as to all or part of those minutes or (2) that the
26 minutes or portions thereof no longer require confidential

 

 

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1 treatment and are available for public inspection. The failure
2 of a public body to strictly comply with the semi-annual review
3 of closed session written minutes, whether before or after the
4 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
5 Assembly, shall not cause the written minutes or related
6 verbatim record to become public or available for inspection in
7 any judicial proceeding, other than a proceeding involving an
8 alleged violation of this Act, if the public body, within 60
9 days of discovering its failure to strictly comply with the
10 technical requirements of this subsection, reviews the closed
11 session minutes and determines and thereafter reports in open
12 session that either (1) the need for confidentiality still
13 exists as to all or part of the minutes or verbatim record, or
14 (2) that the minutes or recordings or portions thereof no
15 longer require confidential treatment and are available for
16 public inspection.
17     (e) Unless the public body has made a determination that
18 the verbatim recording no longer requires confidential
19 treatment or otherwise consents to disclosure, the verbatim
20 record of a meeting closed to the public shall not be open for
21 public inspection or subject to discovery in any administrative
22 or judicial proceeding other than one brought to enforce this
23 Act. In the case of a civil action brought to enforce this Act,
24 the court, if the judge believes such an examination is
25 necessary, must conduct such in camera examination of the
26 verbatim record as it finds appropriate in order to determine

 

 

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1 whether there has been a violation of this Act. In the case of
2 a criminal proceeding, the court may conduct an examination in
3 order to determine what portions, if any, must be made
4 available to the parties for use as evidence in the
5 prosecution. Any such initial inspection must be held in
6 camera. If the court determines that a complaint or suit
7 brought for noncompliance under this Act is valid it may, for
8 the purposes of discovery, redact from the minutes of the
9 meeting closed to the public any information deemed to qualify
10 under the attorney-client privilege. The provisions of this
11 subsection do not supersede the privacy or confidentiality
12 provisions of State or federal law.
13     (f) Minutes of meetings closed to the public shall be
14 available only after the public body determines that it is no
15 longer necessary to protect the public interest or the privacy
16 of an individual by keeping them confidential.
17     (g) Any person shall be permitted an opportunity to address
18 public officials at meetings subject to this Act under the
19 rules established and recorded by the public body.
20 (Source: P.A. 93-523, eff. 1-1-04; 93-974, eff. 1-1-05; 94-28,
21 eff. 1-1-06; 94-542, eff. 8-10-05; 94-1058, eff. 1-1-07.)