No. CS/SB 350
Filed under Local Government.
Public Records/Crime Victims; Expanding a public records exemption for crime victims to include the name and personal identification number of a victim and any other information that could be used to locate, intimidate, harass, or abuse the victim; providing that such exemption includes the portions of records generated by any agency that regularly generates or receives information from or concerning victims of crime; providing for a public records exemption for the identity of a victim’s family member, lawful representative, or next of kin and any other information that could be used to locate, intimidate, harass, or abuse these individuals; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDFlorida already shields a crime victim's identity, contact information, and assets from public disclosure; the exemption now also covers any other detail that could be used to locate, intimidate, harass, or abuse the victim.
The same protection newly extends to a victim's family member, lawful representative, or next of kin, unless that person's interests actually or potentially conflict with the victim's.
A law enforcement officer victimized on duty gets a shorter timeline: the officer's name stays confidential for 72 hours, stays merely exempt for 60 more days, then becomes public, unlike the general victim protection.
If lawmakers let this exemption expire in 2031 without renewing it, the law does not disappear; it reverts to the narrower version that existed before this bill, on June 30, 2026.
AIThe exemption no longer requires an entire document to reveal a victim's identity; it now covers any portion of a public record that does, and reaches records an agency generates itself, not only ones it receives.
AIThe protected categories now explicitly include the victim's name and personal identification number, plus any other information that could be used to locate, intimidate, harass, or abuse the victim, beyond the previously listed contact and asset details.
AIA victim's lawful representative, family member, or next of kin now gets the same identity and location protection as the victim, covering the same broad catch-all of information that could be used against them.
AIAn officer who becomes a crime victim on duty gets the name held confidential and exempt for 72 hours, then merely exempt for 60 more days; after that the name is no longer exempt, unlike an ordinary victim's identity.
AIThe family-member exemption does not apply to the accused, or to a relative whose interests actually or potentially conflict with the victim's, once that conflict is shown.
AIThe officer-name carve-out does not override the existing, separate exemption that protects sexual battery victims, so that stronger protection continues to apply where the two overlap.
AIIf the Legislature does not reenact this section after its 2031 sunset review, the law does not vanish; it reverts to the narrower text that existed on June 30, 2026, the day before this act took effect.