HB 0453, Engrossed 1 2003
   
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2 A bill to be entitled
3          An act relating to public records; amending s. 119.07,
4    F.S.; providing an exemption from public records
5    requirements for criminal intelligence information or
6    criminal investigative information which is a photograph,
7    videotape, or image of any part of the body of a victim of
8    a sexual offense; providing for retroactive effect of the
9    exemption; providing for future legislative review and
10    repeal; providing a statement of public necessity;
11    providing an effective date.
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13          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15          Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subsection (3) of section
16    119.07, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
17          119.07 Inspection, examination, and duplication of
18    records; exemptions.--
19          (3)
20          (f)1.Any criminal intelligence information or criminal
21    investigative information including the photograph, name,
22    address, or other fact or information which reveals the identity
23    of the victim of the crime of sexual battery as defined in
24    chapter 794; the identity of the victim of a lewd or lascivious
25    offense committed upon or in the presence of a person less than
26    16 years of age, as defined in chapter 800; or the identity of
27    the victim of the crime of child abuse as defined by chapter 827
28    and any criminal intelligence information or criminal
29    investigative information or other criminal record, including
30    those portions of court records and court proceedings, which may
31    reveal the identity of a person who is a victim of any sexual
32    offense, including a sexual offense proscribed in chapter 794,
33    chapter 800, or chapter 827, is exempt from the provisions of
34    subsection (1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
35          2. In addition to subparagraph 1., any criminal
36    intelligence information or criminal investigative information
37    which is a photograph, videotape, or image of any part of the
38    body of the victim of a sexual offense prohibited under chapter
39    794, chapter 800, or chapter 827, regardless of whether the
40    photograph, videotape, or image identifies the victim, is
41    confidential and exempt from subsection (1) and s. 24(a), Art. I
42    of the State Constitution. This exemption applies to
43    photographs, videotapes, or images held as criminal intelligence
44    information or criminal investigative information before, on, or
45    after the effective date of the exemption.
46          Section 2. Subparagraph 2. of paragraph (f) of subsection
47    (3) of section 119.07, Florida Statutes, is subject to the Open
48    Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s.
49    119.15, Florida Statutes, and shall stand repealed on October 2,
50    2008, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment
51    by the Legislature.
52          Section 3. The Legislature finds that it is a public
53    necessity that criminal intelligence information or criminal
54    investigative information which is a photograph, videotape, or
55    image of any part of the body of a victim of a sexual offense
56    prohibited under chapter 794, chapter 800, or chapter 827,
57    Florida Statutes, be made confidential and exempt from the
58    requirements of s. 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and s. 24(a),
59    Art. I of the State Constitution. The Legislature finds that
60    such photographs, videotapes, or images often depict the victim
61    in a graphic and disturbing fashion, frequently nude, bruised,
62    or bloodied. Such highly sensitive photographs, videotapes, or
63    images of a victim of a sexual offense, if viewed, copied, or
64    publicized, could result in trauma, sorrow, humiliation, or
65    emotional injury to the victim and the victim’s family. The
66    Legislature further finds that the exemption provided in this
67    act should be given retroactive application because it is
68    remedial in nature.
69          Section 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.