No. SB 884
Filed under Local Government.
Public Records/Owners and Operators of Family Foster Homes; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current and former owners and operators of family foster homes and the names and personal identifying and location information of the spouses and children of such owners and operators; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCurrent and former owners and operators of family foster homes gain a public-records exemption for their home addresses, phone numbers, places of employment, dates of birth, and photographs, removing this information from public disclosure.
The exemption's definition of "children" covers not just an owner's or operator's own kids but any child the Department of Children and Families has placed in that foster home, extending the same address and identity shield to foster children themselves.
The same protection covers spouses of owners and operators too, plus the names and locations of schools and day cares the children attend -- details that could reveal where a placed child now lives.
The Legislature says the goal is to hide a foster child's location from biological parents only until a case concludes and custody is restored, but the exemption's own text has no such time limit.
AIThe exemption's own definitions cover not only an owner's or operator's children by blood, marriage, or adoption, but also any child the Department of Children and Families has placed in that foster home, extending the shield to unrelated foster children.
AIRemoves public access to the home address, telephone number, place of employment, date of birth, and photograph of any current or former owner or operator of a family foster home.
AIExtends the exemption to the names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and employers of spouses and children of covered owners and operators, plus the names and locations of schools and day care facilities the children attend.
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.