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Illinois Statutes Chapter 775. Human Rights § 5/5A-102. Civil Rights Violations--Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

§ 5A-102. Civil Rights Violations-Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education. It is a civil rights violation:

(A) Sexual Harassment; Elementary, Secondary, or Higher Education Representative. For any elementary, secondary, or higher education representative to commit or engage in sexual harassment in elementary, secondary, or higher education.

(B) Sexual Harassment; Institution of Elementary, Secondary, or Higher Education. For any institution of elementary, secondary, or higher education to fail to take remedial action, or to fail to take appropriate disciplinary action against an elementary, secondary, or higher education representative employed by such institution, when such institution knows that such elementary, secondary, or higher education representative was committing or engaging in or committed or engaged in sexual harassment in elementary, secondary, or higher education.

(C) Harassment; Elementary, Secondary, or Higher Education Representative. For any elementary, secondary, or higher education representative to commit or engage in harassment in elementary, secondary, or higher education.

(D) Harassment; Institution of Elementary, Secondary, or Higher Education. For any institution of elementary, secondary, or higher education to fail to take appropriate corrective action to stop harassment if the institution knows that an elementary, secondary, or higher education representative was committing or engaging in or committed or engaged in harassment in elementary, secondary, or higher education.

(E) Failure to Report. For any school district established under the School Code or institutions of elementary or secondary education covered by this Act to fail to disclose information as required by Section 2-3.196 of the School Code.

(F) Exemptions. Nothing in Article 5A shall be construed to limit jurisdiction under Section 5-102.2. Subsections (C), (D), and (E) shall apply solely to nonsectarian institutions of elementary, secondary or higher education and elementary, secondary, or higher education representatives employed by such nonsectarian institutions.

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