Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 552
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/17/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Hays) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 30 - 70
    4  and insert:
    5  is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
    6  Constitution. This exemption applies to such information held
    7  before, on, or after the effective date of this section.
    8         (3) This section does not preclude the release, in the
    9  aggregate, of information from a Point-In-Time Count and Survey
   10  or data in a Homeless Management Information System which does
   11  not disclose individual identifying information of a person.
   12         (4) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   13  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   14  on October 2, 2020, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   15  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   16         Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
   17  necessity that individual identifying information of a person
   18  contained in a Point-In-Time Count and Survey or data in a
   19  Homeless Management Information System collected pursuant to 42
   20  U.S.C. chapter 119, subchapter IV, and related regulations be
   21  made exempt from public records requirements. The public release
   22  of such sensitive information could lead to discrimination
   23  against or ridicule of such individuals and could make them
   24  reluctant to seek assistance for themselves or their family
   25  members. The public release of such information may put affected
   26  individuals at greater risk of injury as a significant
   27  proportion of such individuals are survivors of domestic
   28  violence or suffer from mental illness or substance abuse.
   29  Additionally, public access to such information may put affected
   30  individuals at a heightened risk for fraud and identity theft.
   31  The harm from disclosing such information outweighs any public
   32  benefit that can be derived from widespread and unfettered
   33  access to such information. This exemption is narrowly drawn so
   34  that aggregate information may be disclosed, but does not
   35  disclose the individual identifying information of a person from
   36  the Point-In-Time Count and Survey and data in a Homeless
   37  Management Information System collected pursuant to 42 U.S.C.
   38  chapter 119, subchapter IV, and related regulations.