Illinois Gambling Self-exclusion List
Chapter iv: illinois gaming board part 3000 riverboat gambling section 3000.787 placement on the self-exclusion list following removal. Once you’re on the exclusion list, it’s your responsibility to stay out of gambling spaces and off gambling websites. However, the program involves gambling licensees as well. If you’re on the exclusion list and enter a gambling facility, the gaming facility must notify your presence to law enforcement. Illinois Gaming Board officials acknowledge the technology to create a self-exclusion list exists but said that implementing it across the state’s 6,800 video gambling locations poses a huge hurdle and would likely lead to steep revenue declines. The new gambling bill calls for the creation of a self-exclusion list for sports bettors, too. But there still is no self-exclusion list for people who bet at the state's 7,000-plus locations of.
Section 3000.760 Distribution and Availability of Confidential Self-Exclusion List
a) The Board shall maintain and keep current the Self-Exclusion List. The List shall be updated and distributed in its entirety to each riverboat casino on a regular basis.
b) Upon placement on the Self-Exclusion List by the Administrator, the name and identifying information of the self-excluded person shall be distributed to each riverboat gaming operation.
c) No riverboat gaming operation may disclose the name of any person on the Self-Exclusion List to any third party unless specifically authorized by this Part or required by a court order specifically requiring the release of mental health records and information.
d) No owner licensee, occupational licensee or applicant or approved Key Person or Key Person applicant who obtains identifying information about a person on the Self-Exclusion List from any source may discloses the name or identifying information of the self-excluded person, except as necessary to effectuate, or as specifically permitted by, this Part.
e) Any licensee or applicant for license and any approved Key Person or Key Person applicant who knowingly discloses, authorizes disclosure, permits a disclosure, or otherwise assists in the disclosure of the identity of a person on the Self-Exclusion List shall be subject to discipline for each disclosure, including but not limited to any disclosure by any of its officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents and contractors, unless the disclosure complies with the following provisions:
1) The disclosure is made on the same need to know basis restriction applicable to mental health information to staff for the sole purpose of effectuating the approved Internal Control responsibilities.
2) The disclosure is made for the sole purpose of effectuating the Self-Exclusion program and this Part as to any customer tracking system, customer identification system, chips and token exchange system, financial transactions system, or check and credit system.
3) The disclosure is made in compliance with the approved Internal Controls.
f) Disclosure may be made to affiliate gaming operations with the prior written approval of the Administrator. A licensee seeking such approval must provide to the Administrator an explanation of the manner in which the identity of the self-excluded persons will be maintained confidentially by the affiliate gaming operations.
g) Nothing in this Section prohibits disclosure of the name of a person on the Self-Exclusion List to the Board or its staff or to a person authorized in writing by the self-excluded person on the Self-Exclusion List to receive such information.
Illinois Gambling Self-exclusion Listing
(Source: Added at 26 Ill. Reg. 9307, effective June 14, 2002)