Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB3112

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that no provision of the Act shall be construed to afford any rights to any person: (i) incarcerated in a State, local, or federal correctional facility; or (ii) in the custody of the Department of Human Services as unfit to stand trial or under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act. Provides that the new provisions shall not be construed to prevent a person from exercising his or her constitutionally-protected rights. Exempts from disclosure under the Act records requested by persons committed to a county jail if those materials are available in the library of the jail. Exempts from inspection and copying information or materials received, generated, or maintained by a State's Attorney or county sheriff as part of the criminal discovery process that the disclosure of which would violate the Supreme Court Rule concerning the disclosure of discovery materials in felony cases. Provides that the exemption applies regardless of whether the case has concluded. Effective immediately.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the bill as introduced with the following changes: provides for the exemption from inspection and copying of additional specified records requested by persons committed to the Department of Corrections; and removes a Section concerning persons in custody.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a public body shall respond to a request for records from a person committed to the Department of Corrections or a county jail within 21 working days after receipt. Exempts from disclosure under the Act specified records requested by a person in a county jail or committed to the Department of Corrections. Exempts from inspection and copying, while the case is pending at the trial level, information or materials received, generated, or maintained by a State's Attorney or county sheriff as part of the criminal discovery process that the disclosure of which would violate the Supreme Court Rule concerning the disclosure of discovery materials in felony cases. Effective immediately.

Deletes language providing that a public body shall respond to a request for records from a person committed to the Department of Corrections or a county jail within 21 working days after receipt. To provisions exempting disclosure of certain documents while a case is pending at the trial level, adds information and materials of other prosecutors.

Deletes language exempting from inspection and copying records requested by a person committed to the Department of Corrections or a county jail if those materials include law enforcement records of other persons in the custody of or committed to the Department of Corrections or a county jail, except as these records may be relevant to the requester's current or potential case or claim. Exempts instead law enforcement records of other persons requested by a person committed to the Department of Corrections or a county jail, including, but not limited to, arrest and booking records, mug shots, and crime scene photographs, except as these records may be relevant to the requester's current or potential case or claim. Deletes language exempting from inspection and copying certain information or materials that the disclosure of which would violate the Supreme Court Rule concerning the disclosure of discovery materials in felony cases. Exempts instead certain information or materials that relate to a criminal case pending at the trial level.

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