Contact Us NowIf you have a website, a new law requires posting certain trustee, council or board member email addresses
By Joshua D. Herman
The Illinois Local Records Act was amended by the addition of 50 ILCS 205/20, which became effective January 1, 2015. The amendment requires units of local government and school districts that serve a population of less than 1,000,000 and maintain an Internet website (other than a social media or social networking website) to “post to its website for the current calendar year a mechanism, such as a uniform single email address, for members of the public to electronically communicate with elected officials of that unit of local government or school district, unless such officials have an individual email address for that purpose.”
Public bodies must become compliant with the new law by April 1, 2015 (90 days after the Act went into effect).
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