Illinois Administrative Code › Title 2 - GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION › Part 5376 - INFORMATION REQUESTS › Subpart A - INTRODUCTION › Section 5376.102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Terms not defined in this Section shall have the same meaning
				  as in the Freedom of Information Act [5 ILCS 140 ]. The following definitions
				  are applicable for purposes of this Part:
"Act" means the Higher Education Student Assistance [110 ILCS
				  947 ].
"Agency" means Illinois Student Assistance Commission as
				  established by the Act.
"Commercial purpose" means the use of any part of a record or
				  records, or information derived from records, in any form for sale, resale, or
				  solicitation or advertisement for sales or services. For purposes of this
				  definition, requests made by news media and non-profit, scientific, or academic
				  organizations shall not be considered to be made for a "commercial purpose"
				  when the principal purpose of the request is:
to access and disseminate information concerning news and
				  current or passing events;
for articles of opinion or features of interest to the
				  public; or
for the purpose of academic, scientific, or public research
				  or education. (Section 2(c-10) of FOIA)
"Copying" means the reproduction of any record by means of
				  any photographic, electronic, mechanical, or other process, device or means now
				  known or hereafter developed and available to the Agency. (Section 2(d) of
				  FOIA)
"Director" means the Executive Director of the Agency.
"FOIA" means the Freedom of Information Act [5 ILCS 140
				  ].
"Freedom of Information Officer" or "FOI Officer" means an
				  individual or individuals responsible for receiving and responding to requests
				  for public records.
"News media" means a newspaper or other periodical issued at
				  regular intervals, news service in paper or electronic form, radio station,
				  television station, television network, community antenna television service,
				  or person or corporation engaged in making news reels or other motion picture
				  news for public showing. (Section 2(f) of FOIA)
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership,
				  firm, organization or association, acting individually or as a group. (Section
				  2(b) of FOIA)
"Private information" means unique identifiers, including a
				  person's Social Security number, driver's license number, employee
				  identification number, biometric identifiers, personal financial information,
				  passwords or other access codes, medical records, home or personal telephone
				  numbers, and personal email addresses. Private information also includes home
				  address and personal license plates, except as otherwise provided by law or
				  when compiled without possibility of attribution to any person. (Section 2(c-5)
				  of FOIA)
"Public Access Counselor" means an individual appointed to
				  that office by the Attorney General under Section 7 of the Attorney General Act
				  [15 ILCS 205 ].
"Public body" means all legislative, executive,
				  administrative, or advisory bodies of the State, State universities and
				  colleges, counties, townships, cities, villages, incorporated towns, school
				  districts and all other municipal corporations, boards, bureaus, committees or
				  commissions of this State, any subsidiary bodies of any of the foregoing,
				  including but not limited to committees and subcommittees thereof, and a School
				  Finance Authority created under Article 1E of the School Code [105 ILCS 5 ].
				  (Section 2(a) of FOIA)
"Records" means all records, reports, forms, writings,
				  letters, memoranda, books, papers, maps, photographs, microfilms, cards, tapes,
				  recordings, electronic data processing records, electronic communications,
				  recorded information and all other documentary materials pertaining to the
				  transaction of public business, regardless of physical form or characteristics,
				  having been prepared by or for, or having been or being used by, received by,
				  in the possession of or under the control of the Agency. (Section 2(c) of
				  FOIA)
"Requester" is any person who has submitted to the Agency a
				  written request, electronically or on paper, for records.
"Unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" means the
				  disclosure of information that is highly personal or objectionable to a
				  reasonable person and in which the subject's right to privacy outweighs any
				  legitimate public interest in obtaining the information. (Section 7(1)(c) of
				  FOIA)