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Lawmakers Chip Away at New FOIA Law
(IRN)-This year's expansions to public records laws in Illinois are starting to unravel.

The Illinois House Tuesday approved keeping performance reviews for public employees under wraps. Governor Pat Quinn had vetoed the bill, but the House over rode it and sent it to the Senate.

State Representative Linda Chapa LaVia sponsored the exemption, saying performance reviews cross the line into personal privacy, a principle protected under the Freedom of Information Act. She says there are plenty of other ways to find out, for example, if your child's teacher is doing a bad job without going into his or her performance reviews.

Emily Miller, policy and government affairs coordinator for the Better Government Association, disagrees. She says supervisors could now be motivated to put damaging information in a place where nobody can find it.

Lauding FOIA reforms and then un-doing them? "Leave it to Illinois to do something like that," says Miller.

The House voted to override the governor's veto of HB 5154, 77-36. It now goes to the Senate.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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