Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 68
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/16/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Garcia) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 273 - 320
    4  and insert:
    5  staff and domestic violence advocates, as defined in s.
    6  90.5036(1)(b), of domestic violence centers certified by the
    7  Department of Children and Families under chapter 39; the names,
    8  home addresses, telephone numbers, places of employment, dates
    9  of birth, and photographs of the spouses and children of such
   10  personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care
   11  facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt
   12  from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   13  Constitution.
   14         3. An agency that is the custodian of the information
   15  specified in subparagraph 2. and that is not the employer of the
   16  officer, employee, justice, judge, or other person specified in
   17  subparagraph 2. shall maintain the exempt status of that
   18  information only if the officer, employee, justice, judge, other
   19  person, or employing agency of the designated employee submits a
   20  written request for maintenance of the exemption to the
   21  custodial agency.
   22         4. An officer, an employee, a justice, a judge, or other
   23  person specified in subparagraph 2. may submit a written request
   24  for the release of his or her exempt information to the
   25  custodial agency. The written request must be notarized and must
   26  specify the information to be released and the party that is
   27  authorized to receive the information. Upon receipt of the
   28  written request, the custodial agency shall release the
   29  specified information to the party authorized to receive such
   30  information.
   31         5. The exemptions in this paragraph apply to information
   32  held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of the
   33  exemption.
   34         6. This paragraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   35  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   36  on October 2, 2024, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   37  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   38         Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
   39  necessity that the home addresses, telephone numbers, places of
   40  employment, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former
   41  staff and domestic violence advocates, as defined in s.
   42  90.5036(1)(b), of domestic violence centers certified by the
   43  Department of Children and Families under chapter 39; the names,
   44  home addresses, telephone numbers, places of employment, dates
   45  of birth, and photographs of the spouses and children of such
   46  personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care
   47  facilities attended by the children of such personnel be exempt
   48  from public records requirements. Such personnel and their
   49  family members are at a heightened risk of physical and
   50  emotional harm from perpetrators of domestic violence who have
   51  contentious reactions to actions taken by such personnel to
   52  house and protect victims of domestic violence and limit further
   53  harm to such victims. The Legislature further finds that it is
   54  necessary to provide safeguards to staff and domestic violence
   55  advocates who are
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   58  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   59  And the title is amended as follows:
   60         Delete line 5
   61  and insert:
   62         domestic violence advocates of domestic violence
   63         centers certified by