Illinois Statutes Chapter 50. Local Government § 205/3c. Severance agreements due to sexual harassment and sexual discrimination

(a) When a unit of local government, school district, community college district, or other local taxing body enters a severance agreement with an employee or contractor because the employee or contractor was found to have engaged in sexual harassment or sexual discrimination, as defined by the Illinois Human Rights Act  1 or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,  2 the public body shall publish on its Internet website, if one is maintained, and make available to the news media for inspection and copying within 72 hours of the taxing body's approval of the severance agreement the following information:

For the purposes of this subsection (a), “news media” means personnel of a newspaper or other periodical issued at regular intervals whether in print or electronic format, a news service whether in print or electronic format, a radio station, a television station, a television network, a community antenna television service, or a person or corporation engaged in making news reels or other motion picture news for public showing.

(b) The information required to be provided by this Section may be withheld if it is determined that disclosure would:

(c) No unit of local government, school district, community college district, or other local taxing body shall incur liability as a result of its compliance with this Section, except for willful or wanton misconduct.

(d) The requirements of subsection (a) of this Section do not supersede the confidentiality provisions of the severance agreement.

(e) Nothing in this Section shall limit disclosure of public records required to be disclosed under this Act or the Freedom of Information Act.