https://illinoisfoia.org/exemptions/7-1-s/ 2025-02-14T00:00:00Z https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-82252/ 2025-02-14T00:00:00Z

A citizen requested a risk assessment report regarding stable buildings from the Palatine Park District, but the District refused to release it. The Attorney General's office reviewed the document and agreed that it is exempt from disclosure under state law. Consequently, the District was not required to provide the record.

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-80023/ 2024-06-06T00:00:00Z

A citizen requested emails from a Village, but the Village withheld some of them, claiming they were protected by legal and insurance-related exemptions. The Attorney General's office reviewed the records and agreed that the Village was legally allowed to keep those specific emails private. As a result, the case is closed with no further action required.

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/2011-pac-11946/ 2011-04-18T00:00:00Z

The requester, a newspaper reporter, sought a sample of de-identified nerve-conduction-velocity test results submitted in support of state employees' workers' compensation claims, which a state agency withheld in full as proprietary risk-management information. The Public Access Counselor held that the agency's self-insurance workers' compensation program was not an intergovernmental risk-management pool and that the exemption protects only proprietary claims-management policies and procedures,

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/2011-pac-12406/ 2011-04-15T00:00:00Z

The requester, a newspaper editor, sought copies of settlement agreements resolving two employee lawsuits against a city, and the city disclosed the agreements but redacted the specific settlement dollar amounts as risk-management claims information. The Public Access Counselor held that the exemption protects only an insurance pool's proprietary claims-management policies and procedures, not the amount paid to settle an individual claim, and that settlement agreements must otherwise be disclose