https://illinoisfoia.org/exemptions/7-1-l/ 2025-03-07T00:00:00Z https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-85548/ 2025-03-07T00:00:00Z

A requester asked a school district for several years of closed session meeting minutes. The PAC ruled that the district was allowed to keep these records private because the district had not yet voted to make them public, as required by law. Consequently, the PAC closed the case without requiring the district to release the documents.

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-81399/ 2024-05-20T00:00:00Z

A library patron requested records from a closed-door meeting regarding an investigation into their own conduct. The library refused to release the meeting minutes and audio recording, citing laws that keep such records confidential. The Attorney General's office agreed with the library, noting that these records are protected and no further action will be taken.

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/2017-pac-49564/ 2017-11-07T00:00:00Z

The requester, a newspaper reporter, sought audio recordings of the housing authority board's open meetings from a given year, and the housing authority withheld them as preliminary, deliberative material. The Public Access Counselor held that a verbatim recording of a meeting that was open to the public is inherently subject to public scrutiny and is not the kind of predecisional record the deliberative-process exemption protects, regardless of the purpose for which the recording was made. The