Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 1096
       
       
       
       By Senator Crist
       
       
       
       
       12-00980A-09                                          20091096__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to color photographic or digital
    3         imaged licenses; amending s. 322.142, F.S.;
    4         authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
    5         Vehicles to release to a law enforcement agency
    6         multiple reproductions of images or updated images
    7         from the print files or digital records for inclusion
    8         in a facial-recognition biometrics database; providing
    9         that the images continue to be exempt from public
   10         disclosure while contained in the database; providing
   11         an effective date.
   12         
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14         
   15         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 322.142, Florida
   16  Statutes, is amended to read:
   17         322.142 Color photographic or digital imaged licenses.—
   18         (4) The department may maintain a film negative or print
   19  file. The department shall maintain a record of the digital
   20  image and signature of the licensees, together with other data
   21  required by the department for identification and retrieval.
   22  Reproductions from the file or digital record are exempt from
   23  the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and shall be made and issued only
   24  for departmental administrative purposes; for the issuance of
   25  duplicate licenses; in response to law enforcement agency
   26  requests; in a timely response to a request from a law
   27  enforcement agency for multiple reproductions of images, or
   28  updated images in the database, for the purpose of including the
   29  images in the law enforcement agency's facial-recognition
   30  biometrics database, within which such images shall remain
   31  exempt from public disclosure; to the Department of State
   32  pursuant to an interagency agreement to facilitate
   33  determinations of eligibility of voter registration applicants
   34  and registered voters in accordance with ss. 98.045 and 98.075;
   35  to the Department of Revenue pursuant to an interagency
   36  agreement for use in establishing paternity and establishing,
   37  modifying, or enforcing support obligations in Title IV-D cases;
   38  to the Department of Children and Family Services pursuant to an
   39  interagency agreement to conduct protective investigations under
   40  part III of chapter 39; or to the Department of Financial
   41  Services pursuant to an interagency agreement to facilitate the
   42  location of owners of unclaimed property, the validation of
   43  unclaimed property claims, and the identification of fraudulent
   44  or false claims.
   45         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.