Florida Senate - 2015 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 552 Ì673588^Î673588 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 03/17/2015 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability (Hays) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment 2 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12 (4) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset 13 Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed 14 on October 2, 2020, unless reviewed and saved from repeal 15 through reenactment by the Legislature. 16 Section 2.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.