Florida Senate - 2011                                     SB 600
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Criminal Justice
       
       
       
       
       591-00935-11                                           2011600__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government
    3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 119.071, F.S., which
    4         provides an exemption from public-records requirements
    5         for certain records relating to current and former
    6         employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice and
    7         their family members, including juvenile probation
    8         officers and supervisors, detention and assistant
    9         detention superintendents, juvenile justice detention
   10         officers and supervisors, juvenile justice residential
   11         officers and supervisors, juvenile justice counselors
   12         and supervisors, human service counselor
   13         administrators, senior human services counselor
   14         administrators, rehabilitation therapists, and social
   15         services counselors; requiring a written statement
   16         indicating reasonable efforts to protect such
   17         information from being accessible through other means
   18         available to the public; saving the exemption from
   19         repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act;
   20         removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption;
   21         providing an effective date.
   22  
   23  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   24  
   25         Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subsection (4) of section
   26  119.071, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   27         119.071 General exemptions from inspection or copying of
   28  public records.—
   29         (4) AGENCY PERSONNEL INFORMATION.—
   30         (d)1.a. The home addresses, telephone numbers, social
   31  security numbers, and photographs of active or former law
   32  enforcement personnel, including correctional and correctional
   33  probation officers, personnel of the Department of Children and
   34  Family Services whose duties include the investigation of abuse,
   35  neglect, exploitation, fraud, theft, or other criminal
   36  activities, personnel of the Department of Health whose duties
   37  are to support the investigation of child abuse or neglect, and
   38  personnel of the Department of Revenue or local governments
   39  whose responsibilities include revenue collection and
   40  enforcement or child support enforcement; the home addresses,
   41  telephone numbers, social security numbers, photographs, and
   42  places of employment of the spouses and children of such
   43  personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care
   44  facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt
   45  from s. 119.07(1).
   46         b. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
   47  of firefighters certified in compliance with s. 633.35; the home
   48  addresses, telephone numbers, photographs, and places of
   49  employment of the spouses and children of such firefighters; and
   50  the names and locations of schools and day care facilities
   51  attended by the children of such firefighters are exempt from s.
   52  119.07(1).
   53         c. The home addresses and telephone numbers of justices of
   54  the Supreme Court, district court of appeal judges, circuit
   55  court judges, and county court judges; the home addresses,
   56  telephone numbers, and places of employment of the spouses and
   57  children of justices and judges; and the names and locations of
   58  schools and day care facilities attended by the children of
   59  justices and judges are exempt from s. 119.07(1).
   60         d. The home addresses, telephone numbers, social security
   61  numbers, and photographs of current or former state attorneys,
   62  assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or assistant
   63  statewide prosecutors; the home addresses, telephone numbers,
   64  social security numbers, photographs, and places of employment
   65  of the spouses and children of current or former state
   66  attorneys, assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or
   67  assistant statewide prosecutors; and the names and locations of
   68  schools and day care facilities attended by the children of
   69  current or former state attorneys, assistant state attorneys,
   70  statewide prosecutors, or assistant statewide prosecutors are
   71  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
   72  Constitution.
   73         e. The home addresses and telephone numbers of general
   74  magistrates, special magistrates, judges of compensation claims,
   75  administrative law judges of the Division of Administrative
   76  Hearings, and child support enforcement hearing officers; the
   77  home addresses, telephone numbers, and places of employment of
   78  the spouses and children of general magistrates, special
   79  magistrates, judges of compensation claims, administrative law
   80  judges of the Division of Administrative Hearings, and child
   81  support enforcement hearing officers; and the names and
   82  locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the
   83  children of general magistrates, special magistrates, judges of
   84  compensation claims, administrative law judges of the Division
   85  of Administrative Hearings, and child support enforcement
   86  hearing officers are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art.
   87  I of the State Constitution if the general magistrate, special
   88  magistrate, judge of compensation claims, administrative law
   89  judge of the Division of Administrative Hearings, or child
   90  support hearing officer provides a written statement that the
   91  general magistrate, special magistrate, judge of compensation
   92  claims, administrative law judge of the Division of
   93  Administrative Hearings, or child support hearing officer has
   94  made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being
   95  accessible through other means available to the public. This
   96  sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review
   97  Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed on
   98  October 2, 2013, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through
   99  reenactment by the Legislature.
  100         f. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
  101  of current or former human resource, labor relations, or
  102  employee relations directors, assistant directors, managers, or
  103  assistant managers of any local government agency or water
  104  management district whose duties include hiring and firing
  105  employees, labor contract negotiation, administration, or other
  106  personnel-related duties; the names, home addresses, telephone
  107  numbers, and places of employment of the spouses and children of
  108  such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day
  109  care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are
  110  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
  111  Constitution.
  112         g. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
  113  of current or former code enforcement officers; the names, home
  114  addresses, telephone numbers, and places of employment of the
  115  spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and
  116  locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the
  117  children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s.
  118  24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
  119         h. The home addresses, telephone numbers, places of
  120  employment, and photographs of current or former guardians ad
  121  litem, as defined in s. 39.820; the names, home addresses,
  122  telephone numbers, and places of employment of the spouses and
  123  children of such persons; and the names and locations of schools
  124  and day care facilities attended by the children of such persons
  125  are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
  126  Constitution, if the guardian ad litem provides a written
  127  statement that the guardian ad litem has made reasonable efforts
  128  to protect such information from being accessible through other
  129  means available to the public. This sub-subparagraph is subject
  130  to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s.
  131  119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2015, unless
  132  reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the
  133  Legislature.
  134         i. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
  135  of current or former juvenile probation officers, juvenile
  136  probation supervisors, detention superintendents, assistant
  137  detention superintendents, senior juvenile justice detention
  138  officers I and II, juvenile justice detention officer
  139  supervisors, juvenile justice residential officers, juvenile
  140  justice residential officer supervisors I and II, juvenile
  141  justice counselors, juvenile justice counselor supervisors,
  142  human services counselor administrators, senior human services
  143  counselor administrators juvenile detention officers, house
  144  parents I and II, house parent supervisors, group treatment
  145  leaders, group treatment leader supervisors, rehabilitation
  146  therapists, and social services counselors of the Department of
  147  Juvenile Justice; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers,
  148  and places of employment of spouses and children of such
  149  personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care
  150  facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt
  151  from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State
  152  Constitution, if any such personnel of the Department of
  153  Juvenile Justice provides a written statement that he or she has
  154  made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being
  155  accessible through other means available to the public. This
  156  sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review
  157  Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on
  158  October 2, 2011, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through
  159  reenactment by the Legislature.
  160         j. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs
  161  of current or former public defenders, assistant public
  162  defenders, criminal conflict and civil regional counsel, and
  163  assistant criminal conflict and civil regional counsel; the home
  164  addresses, telephone numbers, and places of employment of the
  165  spouses and children of such defenders or counsel; and the names
  166  and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the
  167  children of such defenders or counsel are exempt from s.
  168  119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This
  169  sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review
  170  Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on
  171  October 2, 2015, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through
  172  reenactment by the Legislature.
  173         2. An agency that is the custodian of the information
  174  specified in subparagraph 1. and that is not the employer of the
  175  officer, employee, justice, judge, or other person specified in
  176  subparagraph 1. shall maintain the exempt status of that
  177  information only if the officer, employee, justice, judge, other
  178  person, or employing agency of the designated employee submits a
  179  written request for maintenance of the exemption to the
  180  custodial agency.
  181         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.