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5 ILCS 140/8.5 (2026)

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(5 ILCS 140/8.5)
    Sec. 8.5. Records maintained online.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary, a public body is not required to copy a public record that is published on the public body's website. The public body shall notify the requester that the public record is available online and direct the requester to the website where the record can be reasonably accessed.
    (b) If the person requesting the public record is unable to reasonably access the record online after being directed to the website pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section, the requester may re-submit his or her request for the record stating his or her inability to reasonably access the record online, and the public body shall make the requested record available for inspection or copying as provided in Section 3 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-1129, eff. 12-3-14.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 2017–2018 · leading case: Garlick v. Bloomingdale Twp., 2018 IL App (2d) 171013 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018).
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Garlick v. Bloomingdale Twp., 2018 IL App (2d) 171013 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “5 ILCS 140/8.5(a) (West 2016). The township wrote to plaintiff, stating that copyright law and proprietary claims prohibited furnishing the data in its native file format.”
Garlick v. Naperville Twp., 2017 IL App (2d) 170025 (Ill. App. Ct. 2017). · cites it 2× “5 ILCS 140/8.5 (West 2016). Plaintiff, pro se, filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief, arguing that access to the data on a parcel-by-parcel basis on the website did not constitute reasonable access.”
Garlick v. Naperville Twp., 2017 IL App (2d) 170025 (Ill. App. Ct. 2017). · cites it 2× “5 ILCS 140/8.5 (West 2016). Plaintiff, pro se, filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief, arguing that access to the data on a parcel-by-parcel basis on the website did not constitute reasonable access.”
5 ILCS 140/8.5(a): 1 case
Garlick v. Bloomingdale Twp., 2018 IL App (2d) 171013 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “5 ILCS 140/8.5(a) (West 2016). The township wrote to plaintiff, stating that copyright law and proprietary claims prohibited furnishing the data in its native file format.”
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