Senate Bill sb1466

    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 1466

    By Senator Constantine





    9-209A-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to electronic access to public

  3         records; amending s. 28.2221, F.S.; requiring

  4         each county recorder to ensure that social

  5         security numbers, financial account numbers,

  6         and the names and addresses of minors are

  7         concealed from official records and information

  8         made available to the public through the

  9         Internet; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Section 28.2221, Florida Statutes, is

14  amended to read:

15         28.2221  Electronic access to official records.--

16         (1)  The Legislature finds that a proper and legitimate

17  state purpose is served by providing the public with access to

18  public records and information on the Internet and hereby

19  determines that the provisions of this section fulfill and

20  further an important state interest.

21         (2)  No later than January 1, 2002, the county recorder

22  in each county shall provide a current index of documents

23  recorded in the official records of the county for the period

24  beginning no later than January 1, 1990, on a publicly

25  available Internet website that which shall also contain a

26  document requisition point for obtaining images or copies of

27  the documents reflected in the index and which has the

28  capability of electronically providing the index data to a

29  central statewide search site.

30         (3)  Each county recorder shall use appropriate

31  Internet security measures to ensure that a no person has the

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    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 1466
    9-209A-02




  1  ability to alter or to modify any public record cannot be

  2  altered or modified.

  3         (4)  Unless otherwise provided by law, no information

  4  retrieved electronically pursuant to this section may not

  5  shall be admitted admissible in court as an authenticated

  6  document.

  7         (5)  By January 1, 2006, each county recorder shall

  8  provide for electronic retrieval, at a minimum, of images of

  9  documents referenced as the index required to be maintained on

10  the county's official records website by this section.

11         (6)  In order to protect the public from the theft of

12  personal identification information, each county recorder

13  shall use the most practical means available to conceal from

14  each copy of records made available through the Internet any

15  social security number, financial account number, or name and

16  address of a minor.

17         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

18  law.

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21                          SENATE SUMMARY

22    Requires that the county recorder conceal a social
      security number, financial account number, or name and
23    address of a minor contained in any copy of an official
      record made available to the public through the Internet.
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