HB5374 Summary

• Amends Open Meetings Act to allow public bodies to hold closed meetings to discuss school building safety, security procedures, personnel, equipment, reporting to law enforcement, and legal actions in response to actual or threatened dangers to employees, students, staff, or the public.

• Exempts from public disclosure under Freedom of Information Act records concerning school employee determinations about whether individuals pose a clear and present danger, school district threat reports to law enforcement, and school district actions under the Firearms Restraining Order Act.

• Requires Illinois State Police to determine whether to file Firearms Restraining Order actions and revoke Firearm Owner's Identification Cards when notified that a person has been determined to pose a clear and present danger.

• Allows school district boards to authorize designees to file firearms restraining order petitions with or without prior board approval, requiring board ratification within 30 days of filing if advance approval was not obtained.

• Expands petitioners eligible to file firearms restraining orders to include school district boards of directors or boards of education, and allows petitions to be filed in counties where incidents involving immediate danger occurred.