| | Docket NO. 98712, Southern Illinoisian v. IDPH |
 | | The appellate court held that in answering this question, the circuit court was to read in a "reasonableness" requirement in determining whether the requested information constituted a "group of facts which tends to lead to the identity" of cancer patients, within the meaning of section 4(d) of the Registry Act. |
 | | Thus, the Department argues, the record establishes that the three data elements requested by plaintiff-the patient's type of cancer, the date of diagnosis and the patient's ZIP code-tend to lead to the identity of cancer patients and therefore violates section 4(d) of the Registry Act. |
 | | The Department also states that even though Dr. Sweeney testified that the Cancer Registry information only assisted her in confirming the identity of the individuals, this testimony is sufficient to establish that the information requested by plaintiff under the FOIA "tends to lead" to the identities of the patients listed in the Registry. |
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