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This bill amends the Judicial Privacy Act to expand the definition of "judicial officer" to include administrative law judges. Specifically, the bill adds a new category (7) to the existing list of judicial officers, which previously included Supreme Court justices, federal and state appellate judges, district court judges, bankruptcy judges, and circuit court judges. Administrative law judges, as defined in the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, would now be covered under the privacy protections of the Act. This means that administrative law judges would receive the same privacy safeguards as other judicial officers, which include protecting personal information such as home addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, and other sensitive personal details from public disclosure. The bill represents an effort to extend privacy protections to a category of judicial professionals who play an important role in interpreting and applying administrative regulations but were not previously explicitly included in the Act's definition of judicial officers.

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1898&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=114&GA=104