No. SB 210
Filed under Local Government.
Public Records/Petitions for Injunctions for Protection Against Serious Violence by a Known Person; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for petitions, and the contents thereof, for injunctions for protection against serious violence by a known person; providing an exemption from public records requirements for information that can be used to identify a petitioner or respondent in such a petition for an injunction; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDFlorida law already exempts petitions for domestic-violence, stalking, and similar injunctions from public disclosure once dismissed for insufficiency, and keeps identifying information confidential until the respondent is served.
A new injunction category, protection against serious violence by a known person, now receives the very same records treatment as every other listed injunction type.
A dismissed petition of this kind stays exempt from disclosure, and information identifying either party stays confidential until the respondent has been personally served with the petition.
The change only takes effect if SB 32 or similar legislation creating this new injunction becomes law in the same legislative session; without that companion measure, this exemption never activates.
AIA petition for an injunction against serious violence by a known person that is dismissed without a hearing, for insufficiency, or for lack of jurisdiction is now exempt from public disclosure, on the same terms as domestic-violence and stalking petitions.
AIInformation identifying a petitioner or respondent in a serious-violence-by-a-known-person injunction case, along with supporting affidavits and orders, becomes confidential and exempt from disclosure until the respondent is served.
AIThe exemption only takes effect if SB 32 or similar legislation creating the serious-violence-by-a-known-person injunction is adopted in the same legislative session and becomes law; otherwise it never activates.