Illinois SB 2172: FOIA-PUBLIC INFORMATION

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
State of Illinois 
2025 and 2026
SB2172

Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

5 ILCS 140/4 from Ch. 116, par. 204

 Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides the each public body shall post a brief description of itself and other specified information on its website (rather than at each of its administrative or regional offices). Provides that, if a public body does not maintain a website, it shall also post that information at each of its administrative or regional offices.

LRB104 08953 BDA 19008 b

A BILL FOR

SB2172LRB104 08953 BDA 19008 b

1 AN ACT concerning government.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 

3represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by 

5changing Section 4 as follows:

6 (5 ILCS 140/4) (from Ch. 116, par. 204)

7 Sec. 4. Each public body shall prominently display on its 

8website at each of its administrative or regional offices, 

9make available for inspection and copying, and send through 

10the mail if requested, each of the following:

11 (a) A brief description of itself, which will include, 

12 but not be limited to, a short summary of its purpose, a 

13 block diagram giving its functional subdivisions, the 

14 total amount of its operating budget, the number and 

15 location of all of its separate offices, the approximate 

16 number of full and part-time employees, and the 

17 identification and membership of any board, commission, 

18 committee, or council which operates in an advisory 

19 capacity relative to the operation of the public body, or 

20 which exercises control over its policies or procedures, 

21 or to which the public body is required