Illinois State Senate District 53 issued the following announcement on July 26.
Secretary of State's Office for a Mobile Driver Service Facility this Wednesday, July 24th, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Carrollton City Hall.
On July 15th, the Governor asked Illinois residents to assess local flood damage and report it to their county’s emergency management agencies before August 3rd. The information will be used to assess whether the state receives Federal Recovery Assistance.Residents and business owners can submit their initial damage report online athttps://www2.illinois.gov/sites/2019Floods/Pages/default.aspx. Once reported via the website, the submission is forwarded to the appropriate county emergency management agency for follow-up reporting.
A quick reminder to parents as the summer heats up. Leaving a child in a car unattended is a misdemeanor for the first offense with the possibility of a felony for additional offenses. Please, take the necessary time and precautions to look in the back seat and not leave your child unattended for even a few minutes.
Finally, 50 years ago this past Saturday, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. The backup commander for that mission was Illinois resident Jim Lovell who is now 91. He would have taken Neil Armstrong’s spot had Armstrong not been able to take the trip. Lovell went on to command Apollo 13, and the rest is history. I was proud to be the chief sponsor of Senate Resolution 277 which declared July 20, 2019 “Apollo 11 Day” in Illinois.
Illinois schools now have more options for long-term student records that could save taxpayer funds, due to legislation sponsored by State Sen. Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington) and signed into law on July 27.
“This is a common-sense answer to a problem that many schools face, that could potentially save the districts money,” said Sen. Barickman. “This will actually make it easier for schools to comply with record-keeping rules by updating the process and requirements.”
Senate Bill 117 provides an updated set of rules for how schools handle, store, and potentially destroy long-term student records.
Under the old law, many records are required to be kept by schools for certain periods of time, often a period of 60 years. After that, they could’ve been disposed of or moved to electronic copies unless the district was able to contact the parent and offer them a chance to copy the information in the record. The previous standard was communication by US mail to the last known address of the parent, or to publish a notice in a newspaper.
Barickman’s legislation allows school districts to send notice via email with receipt confirmation, and also allows the communications to go to the student, if they are of age (or if the parental rights have been transferred to the student in the case of a student under 18).
“The old rules meant that school districts were stuck spending unnecessary funds on postage and long-term storage of records,” said Barickman. “The new law will help schools devote less time and money to this process, allowing them to devote those resources where they belong, in the classroom.”
The idea for the legislation came from a school in Barickman’s district.
“This legislation will make it easier for school districts to provide timely notice to parents and students prior to the destruction of school student records, and will relieve the burden on school districts of storing a significant amount of documents beyond the statutorily required timeframe,” said Curt Richardson, Attorney for McLean Unit District 5. “Unit 5 thanks Senator Barickman for his efforts in passing this helpful legislation.”
The legislation passed the Senate on March 27 and is now headed to the Illinois House for consideration in that chamber.
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