# Home-address privacy in Illinois, 2026

Illinois judicial privacy distinguishes five-business-day agency removal and 72-hour private removal. ACP property limits and biometric rules address separate records.

Source: https://golowprofile.com/states/illinois (updated 2026-10-24)

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# Home-address privacy in Illinois, 2026

Last updated October 24, 2026

Illinois judicial privacy uses different deadlines for government agencies and private Internet recipients. The 2026 administrative-law-judge expansion also requires checking beyond a stale compiled definition. [[1]](#source-1) [[2]](#source-2) [[3]](#source-3)

General information, not legal advice. Individual eligibility depends on the cited provision.

## Which records and offices are covered?

Illinois record routes and their limits, checked October 24, 2026
| Record or recipient | Published mechanism | Important limit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Government agency | After a proper judicial request, remove personal information within five business days. | The covered information then remains FOIA-exempt unless the officer consents. [[1]](#source-1) |
| Private Internet recipient | A qualifying written judicial request carries a 72-hour removal rule. | The request must satisfy the Act's notice procedure. [[2]](#source-2)[[4]](#source-4) |
| Protected judicial category | P.A. 104-0278 added administrative law judges on January 1, 2026. | A cached compiled definition omitted that enacted amendment. [[3]](#source-3)[[5]](#source-5) |
| ACP property records | The Attorney General says ACP cannot ensure property-record confidentiality. | Program enrollment should not be described as confidential ownership. [[6]](#source-6) |
| State voter data | The election authority describes access for registered political committees for bona fide political purposes. | Commercial solicitation and other business uses are prohibited. [[7]](#source-7) |

## Which judicial definition is current?

The Judicial Privacy Act identifies specified active, former and deceased judicial officers. Its base definition includes federal and Illinois judicial classes. Public Act 104-0278 added administrative law judges effective January 1, 2026. The retained compiled definition had not incorporated that amendment. Reading the enacted public act alongside the compiled section avoids excluding a category because of a stale source display. [[3]](#source-3) [[5]](#source-5)

The government rule reaches publicly available content rather than a parcel-specific form. The definition includes government records available online, on request or under FOIA. After a proper request, the agency has five business days to remove the personal information. The Act then treats the protected information as exempt from FOIA unless the judicial officer gives the required consent. [[1]](#source-1) [[4]](#source-4)

## How does the private request differ?

A private recipient of a qualifying written judicial request has 72 hours to remove the personal information from the Internet. The reviewed notice provision allows signature by the judicial officer or an employer representative. Full section 2-10 requirements must still be satisfied. The source review supporting this page does not resolve every notice-detail question, so the short deadline should not become a substitute for the complete statutory request. [[2]](#source-2) [[4]](#source-4)

Illinois's Address Confidentiality Program follows another procedure through the Attorney General. Applicants can use the secure online application or the downloadable application and its submission instructions. The program expressly says it cannot provide confidentiality for property records. That published limitation matters before describing a substitute mailing address as protection for a deed, ownership index or county property search. [[6]](#source-6)

## What do voter and biometric rules establish?

The State Board of Elections describes voter-data access for registered political committees for bona fide political purposes. It prohibits commercial solicitation and other business uses, while its guidance also addresses limited NVRA-related access. Those recipient and purpose restrictions are separate from judicial Internet-removal deadlines. A record-access question should identify the requested election dataset and the requesting party's legal purpose. [[7]](#source-7)

Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act addresses another defined category of information. Section 15 requires a publicly available retention and destruction policy for covered biometrics. Its time limit relates to the initial purpose or three years after the last interaction. That rule does not itself establish removal of an ordinary home address from a property record. The dataset labels it as biometric-specific protection. [[8]](#source-8)

[Open the Illinois privacy-rights tool](https://golowprofile.com/tools/state-privacy-rights?state=illinois). Compare the [home-address laws](https://golowprofile.com/reference/home-address-laws), [address confidentiality programs](https://golowprofile.com/reference/address-confidentiality-programs), [consumer privacy rights](https://golowprofile.com/reference/privacy-rights-by-state) and [voter-record rules](https://golowprofile.com/reference/voter-record-confidentiality) behind this page.

Related state references. [New York](https://golowprofile.com/states/new-york) and [New Jersey](https://golowprofile.com/states/new-jersey). Return to the [state directory](https://golowprofile.com/states).

## Which sources were reviewed?

Checked October 24, 2026. Scheduled source review January 24, 2027. Each linked provision governs its own record channel and statutory conditions.

- [90/2-1(a)](https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext?DocName=070500900K2-1).
- [90/2-5(b)(1)](https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext?DocName=070500900K2-5).
- [90/1-10 as amended by P.A. 104-0278](https://ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/View/104-0278).
- [90/1-10](https://ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/View/104-0278).
- [P.A. 104-0278 effective date](https://ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/View/104-0278).
- [illinoisattorneygeneral.gov official text](https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/safer-communities/supporting-victims-of-crime/address-confidentiality-program/).
- [10 ILCS5/4-8,5-7,6-35 andNVRA, official board guidance](https://www.elections.il.gov/VotingAndRegistrationSystems/ComputerizedVoterData.aspx).
- [740ILCS14/15(a)](https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext?DocName=074000140K15).

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