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May 24, 2013 |
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On
August 17, 2009 a comprehensive rewrite of the Illinois
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 5 ILCS 140/1 et
seq was signed into law. The General Assembly declares
that providing records in compliance with the requirements
of this Act is a primary duty of public bodies to
the people of the State. However, this Act is not
intended to cause an unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy, nor to allow the requests of a commercial
enterprise to unduly burden public resources, or
to disrupt the duly-undertaken work of any public
body independent of the fulfillment of any of the
fore-mentioned rights of the people to access information.
The amended statute retains the prefatory statement
that it does not oblige public bodies to maintain
or prepare any record that was not maintained or
prepared before the FOIA took effect. In other words,
the public body need not create a record in order
to satisfy a request for public information.
All FOIA requests made for commercial purposes
shall be submitted in writing on the Village's
standard FOIA request form and shall disclose
that the request is being made for a commercial
purpose. It is a violation of the FOIA for a person
to knowingly obtain a public record for a commercial
purpose without disclosing
that it is for a commercial purpose. The Village
shall respond to a request for records to be used
for a commercial purpose within 21 business days
after receipt. All other written requests shall
be responded to within 5 business days. There
is no fee for the duplication of the first fifty
8 ½ x 11 black and white copies.
Freedom of Information Request Form
Freedom of Information Administrative Procedures
Building and Demolition Permit reports can be found
here
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Updated:
Monday, March 26, 2012 14:10
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