Florida Senate - 2012                                     SB 878
       
       
       
       By Senator Benacquisto
       
       
       
       
       27-00574-12                                            2012878__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to personnel records; amending s.
    3         1012.81, F.S.; providing that records relating to a
    4         performance evaluation of a president of a Florida
    5         College System institution are not confidential and
    6         exempt from disclosure under s. 119.07(1), F.S.;
    7         providing an effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Section 1012.81, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   12  read:
   13         1012.81 Personnel records.—Rules of the State Board of
   14  Education shall prescribe the content and custody of limited
   15  access records that which a Florida College System institution
   16  may maintain on its employees. The Such records must shall be
   17  limited to information reflecting evaluations of employee
   18  performance and may shall be open to inspection only by the
   19  employee and by officials of the college who are responsible for
   20  supervision of the employee. Such Limited-access employee
   21  records are confidential and exempt from the provisions of s.
   22  119.07(1); however, records relating to a performance evaluation
   23  of a president of a Florida College System institution are not
   24  confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1).
   25  Except as required for use by the president in the discharge of
   26  his or her official responsibilities, the custodian of limited
   27  access employee records may release information from the such
   28  records only upon authorization in writing from the employee or
   29  the president or upon order of a court of competent
   30  jurisdiction.
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.