(5 ILCS 347/20)
    Sec. 20. Publicly posting a public official's personal information on the Internet by persons, businesses, and associations.
    (a) Prohibited Conduct.
        (1) All persons, businesses, and associations shall
    
refrain from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet publicly available content that includes a public official's personal information, provided that the public official has made a written request to the person, business, or association that it refrain from disclosing the personal information.
        (2) No person, business, or association shall
    
solicit, sell, or trade on the Internet a public official's personal information with the intent to pose an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the public official or the public official's immediate family.
        (3) This subsection includes, but is not limited to,
    
Internet phone directories, Internet search engines, Internet data aggregators, and Internet service providers.
    (b) Required Conduct.
        (1) After a person, business, or association has
    
received a written request from a public official to protect the privacy of the public official's personal information, that person, business, or association shall have 72 hours to remove the personal information from the Internet.
        (2) After a person, business, or association has
    
received a written request from a public official, that person, business, or association shall ensure that the public official's personal information is not made available on any website or subsidiary website controlled by that person, business, or association.
        (3) After receiving a public official's written
    
request, no person, business, or association shall transfer the public official's personal information to any other person, business, or association through any medium.
    (c) Redress. A public official whose personal information is made public as a result of a violation of this Act may bring an action seeking injunctive or declaratory relief in any court. If the court grants injunctive or declaratory relief, the person, business, or association responsible for the violation shall be required to pay the public official's costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
(Source: P.A. 104-443, eff. 1-1-26.)