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1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Sections 1.2 and 2 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | (5 ILCS 140/1.2) | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 1.2. Presumption. All records in the custody or | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | possession of a public body are presumed to be open to | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | inspection or copying. Any public body that asserts that a | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | record is exempt from disclosure has the burden of proving by | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | clear and convincing evidence that it is exempt.
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12 | (Source: P.A. 96-542, eff. 1-1-10.)
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13 | (5 ILCS 140/2) (from Ch. 116, par. 202)
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14 | Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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15 | (a) "Public body" means all legislative,
executive, | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | administrative, or advisory bodies of the State, state | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | universities
and colleges, counties, townships, cities, | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | villages, incorporated towns,
school districts and all other | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | municipal corporations,
boards, bureaus, committees, or | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | commissions of this State, any
subsidiary
bodies of any of the | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | foregoing including but not limited to committees and
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22 | subcommittees thereof, and a School Finance Authority created |
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1 | under
Article 1E of the School Code.
"Public body" does not | ||||||
2 | include a child death review team
or the Illinois Child Death | ||||||
3 | Review Teams
Executive Council
established under
the Child | ||||||
4 | Death Review Team Act, or a regional youth advisory board or | ||||||
5 | the Statewide Youth Advisory Board established under the | ||||||
6 | Department of Children and Family Services Statewide Youth | ||||||
7 | Advisory Board Act.
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8 | (b) "Person" means any individual, corporation, | ||||||
9 | partnership, firm,
organization
or association, acting | ||||||
10 | individually or as a group.
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11 | (c) "Public records" means all records, reports, forms, | ||||||
12 | writings, letters,
memoranda, books, papers, maps, | ||||||
13 | photographs, microfilms, cards, tapes,
recordings,
electronic | ||||||
14 | data processing records, electronic communications, recorded | ||||||
15 | information and all other
documentary
materials pertaining to | ||||||
16 | the transaction of public business, regardless of physical form | ||||||
17 | or characteristics, having been
prepared by or for the public | ||||||
18 | body , or having been or being used by, received by, in the | ||||||
19 | possession of, or under the
control
of
any public body . | ||||||
20 | (c-5) "Private information" means unique identifiers, | ||||||
21 | including a person's social security number, driver's license | ||||||
22 | number, employee identification number, biometric identifiers, | ||||||
23 | personal financial information, passwords or other access | ||||||
24 | codes, medical records, home or personal telephone numbers, and | ||||||
25 | personal email addresses. Private information also includes | ||||||
26 | home address and personal license plates, except as otherwise |
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1 | provided by law or when compiled without possibility of | ||||||
2 | attribution to any person. | ||||||
3 | (c-10) "Commercial purpose" means the use of any part of a | ||||||
4 | public record or records, or information derived from public | ||||||
5 | records, in any form for sale, resale, or solicitation or | ||||||
6 | advertisement for sales or services. For purposes of this | ||||||
7 | definition, requests made by news media and non-profit, | ||||||
8 | scientific, or academic organizations shall not be considered | ||||||
9 | to be made for a "commercial purpose" when the principal | ||||||
10 | purpose of the request is (i) to access and disseminate | ||||||
11 | information concerning news and current or passing events, (ii) | ||||||
12 | for articles of opinion or features of interest to the public, | ||||||
13 | or (iii) for the purpose of academic, scientific, or public | ||||||
14 | research or education.
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15 | (d) "Copying" means the reproduction of any public record | ||||||
16 | by means of any
photographic, electronic, mechanical or other | ||||||
17 | process, device or means now known or hereafter developed and | ||||||
18 | available to the public body.
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19 | (e) "Head of the public body" means the president, mayor, | ||||||
20 | chairman,
presiding
officer, director, superintendent, | ||||||
21 | manager, supervisor or individual otherwise
holding primary | ||||||
22 | executive and administrative authority for the public
body, or | ||||||
23 | such person's duly authorized designee.
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24 | (f) "News media" means a newspaper or other periodical | ||||||
25 | issued at regular
intervals whether in print or electronic | ||||||
26 | format, a news service whether
in print or electronic format, a |
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1 | radio
station, a television station, a television network, a | ||||||
2 | community
antenna television service, or a person or | ||||||
3 | corporation engaged in making news
reels or other motion | ||||||
4 | picture news for public showing.
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5 | (g) "Recurrent requester", as used in Section 3.2 of this | ||||||
6 | Act, means a person that, in the 12 months immediately | ||||||
7 | preceding the request, has submitted to the same public body | ||||||
8 | (i) a minimum of 50 requests for records, (ii) a minimum of 15 | ||||||
9 | requests for records within a 30-day period, or (iii) a minimum | ||||||
10 | of 7 requests for records within a 7-day period. For purposes | ||||||
11 | of this definition, requests made by news media and non-profit, | ||||||
12 | scientific, or academic organizations shall not be considered | ||||||
13 | in calculating the number of requests made in the time periods | ||||||
14 | in this definition when the principal purpose of the requests | ||||||
15 | is (i) to access and disseminate information concerning news | ||||||
16 | and current or passing events, (ii) for articles of opinion or | ||||||
17 | features of interest to the public, or (iii) for the purpose of | ||||||
18 | academic, scientific, or public research or education. | ||||||
19 | For the purposes of this subsection (g), "request" means a | ||||||
20 | written document (or oral request, if the public body chooses | ||||||
21 | to honor oral requests) that is submitted to a public body via | ||||||
22 | personal delivery, mail, telefax, electronic mail, or other | ||||||
23 | means available to the public body and that identifies the | ||||||
24 | particular public record the requester seeks. One request may | ||||||
25 | identify multiple records to be inspected or copied. | ||||||
26 | (h) "Voluminous request" means a request that: (i) includes |
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1 | more than 5 individual requests for more than 5 different | ||||||
2 | categories of records or a combination of individual requests | ||||||
3 | that total requests for more than 5 different categories of | ||||||
4 | records in a period of 20 business days; or (ii) requires the | ||||||
5 | compilation of more than 500 letter or legal-sized pages of | ||||||
6 | public records unless a single requested record exceeds 500 | ||||||
7 | pages. "Single requested record" may include, but is not | ||||||
8 | limited to, one report, form, e-mail, letter, memorandum, book, | ||||||
9 | map, microfilm, tape, or recording. | ||||||
10 | "Voluminous request" does not include a request made by | ||||||
11 | news media and non-profit, scientific, or academic | ||||||
12 | organizations if the principal purpose of the request is: (1) | ||||||
13 | to access and disseminate information concerning news and | ||||||
14 | current or passing events; (2) for articles of opinion or | ||||||
15 | features of interest to the public; or (3) for the purpose of | ||||||
16 | academic, scientific, or public research or education. | ||||||
17 | For the purposes of this subsection (h), "request" means a | ||||||
18 | written document, or oral request, if the public body chooses | ||||||
19 | to honor oral requests, that is submitted to a public body via | ||||||
20 | personal delivery, mail, telefax, electronic mail, or other | ||||||
21 | means available to the public body and that identifies the | ||||||
22 | particular public record or records the requester seeks. One | ||||||
23 | request may identify multiple individual records to be | ||||||
24 | inspected or copied. | ||||||
25 | (i) "Severance agreement" means a mutual agreement between | ||||||
26 | any public body and its employee for the employee's resignation |
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1 | in exchange for payment by the public body. | ||||||
2 | (Source: P.A. 98-806, eff. 1-1-15; 98-1129, eff. 12-3-14; | ||||||
3 | 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-478, eff. 6-1-16 .)
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