(730 ILCS 175/45-115)
Sec. 45-115.
Recordkeeping; confidentiality.
(a) Every secure residential youth care facility must keep and maintain such
records as the
Department may prescribe pertaining to the admission, progress, health, and
discharge of youth under the care of the facility and shall report
to the Department whenever requested upon forms
prescribed by the Department. All records regarding youth and all facts
learned about youth and their relatives must be kept confidential both
by the youth care facility and by the Department.
(b) Nothing contained in this Act prevents the sharing or
disclosure of information or records relating or pertaining to juveniles
subject to the provisions of the Serious Habitual Offender Comprehensive
Action Program when that information is used to assist the early
identification and treatment of habitual juvenile offenders.
(Source: P.A. 88-680, eff. 1-1-95.)
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