No. SB 376
Filed under Local Government.
Public Records/Sexual Assault Counselors; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of sexual assault counselors; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDSexual assault counselors, as defined by Florida's evidence code, gain a public-records exemption for their home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs, removing this information from disclosure under the state's right-to-know law and constitution.
The Legislature justifies the exemption by pointing to counselors' personal information surfacing in police reports handed to defendants during discovery, which then becomes subject to public-records requests and has led to harassment and threats.
Like other exemptions of this kind, it is not permanent: mandatory legislative sunset review applies, and the protection automatically expires on October 2, 2031, unless lawmakers renew it by then.
AIRemoves public access to the home address, telephone number, date of birth, and photograph of any person who qualifies as a sexual assault counselor under Florida's evidence code.
AIThe exemption is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act and automatically repeals five years after taking effect unless the Legislature reviews and reenacts it first.