FOIA section 2(c-10)
FOIA5 ILCS 140/2(c-10). Section 2 overview: Defines the Act's key terms: what counts as a “public body” (state agencies, counties, cities, school districts, and their subcommittees), who counts as a “requester,” what a “public record” is, what makes a request a “commercial purpose” or “recurrent” request (which get different response rules), and other terms used throughout the Act.
3 issues across 3 determination letters:1 violation found · 2 no violation.
Counts are per issue, not per letter, and come from automated extraction checked against sampled letters. Determination letters are not binding precedent.
Authorities the Bureau cites most on this issue
- Cellular phone bills and credit card expenditures (PAC Req. Rev. Ltr. 44649) cited 1 times
Drafting brief for an AI assistant
Copy this into your assistant to help draft a request, appeal, or challenge to a denial that turns on this issue. It carries the rules and decisions, not your facts: add those yourself. Machine-readable version: foia-2-c-10.json.
Violation found (1)
Commercial purpose classification of FOIA request
Rule: Using information derived from records to provide business services is not selling or reselling the information itself.
Violation found A fire department's fee for search and retrieval of a fire report · October 26, 2018
No violation (2)
Commercial purpose designation of SpotCrime
Rule: Requests from news media are exempt from commercial purpose, but SpotCrime's data compilation and sale to subscribers lacks journalistic standards, so it is commercial.
No violation A data-aggregation website's classification for daily crime data requests · April 4, 2017
Request qualifies as commercial purpose
Rule: Seeking information derived from public records to sell access to paying members falls within the definition of a commercial purpose.
No violation PTAX-203 real estate transfer declaration forms · March 27, 2015