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Laws that create prosecutable offenses in the ILCS say things like "Any person failing to comply with $(CLAUSE) shall be guilty of a $(CRIME_LEVEL)". This one obviously does not do that.

The reason for the legislation is that Illinois companies are specifically not permitted to demand credentials for personal social media accounts; it creates an exception to at-will employment in Illinois that would enable you to sue your employer if you were terminated incident to refusing credentials.



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