Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1436
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       la Portilla) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (5) is added to section 409.1678,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         409.1678 Safe harbor for children who are victims of sexual
    8  exploitation.—
    9         (5)(a) Information held by an agency as defined in s.
   10  119.011 about the location of safe houses and safe foster homes
   11  is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art.
   12  I of the State Constitution.
   13         (b) Information about the location of safe houses and safe
   14  foster homes may be provided to an agency, as defined in s.
   15  119.011, as necessary to maintain health and safety standards
   16  and to address emergency situations in the safe house and safe
   17  foster home.
   18         (c) This subsection is subject to the Open Government
   19  Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand
   20  repealed on October 2, 2019, unless reviewed and saved from
   21  repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
   22         Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
   23  necessity that information about the location of safe houses and
   24  safe foster homes held by an agency, as defined in s. 119.011,
   25  Florida Statutes, be made confidential and exempt from s.
   26  119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and s. 24(a), Article I of the
   27  State Constitution. Safe houses and safe foster homes are
   28  intended as refuges for sexually exploited victims from those
   29  who exploited them. If the individuals who victimized these
   30  people were able to learn the location of such safe houses, they
   31  may attempt to contact their victims, exploit their
   32  vulnerabilities, and return them to the situations in which they
   33  were victimized. Even without the return of these victims to
   34  their former situations, additional contact with those who
   35  victimized them would have the effect of continuing their
   36  victimization and inhibiting their recoveries. Additionally,
   37  knowledge about the location of safe houses and safe foster
   38  homes could enable other individuals to locate and attempt to
   39  victimize the residents. Therefore, it is the finding of the
   40  Legislature that such information must be made confidential and
   41  exempt from public disclosure.
   42         Section 3. This act shall take effect on the same date that
   43  SB 1440 or similar legislation relating to human trafficking
   44  takes effect, if such legislation is adopted in the same
   45  legislative session or an extension thereof and becomes a law.
   46  
   47  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   48  And the title is amended as follows:
   49         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   50  and insert:
   51                        A bill to be entitled                      
   52         An act relating to public records; amending s.
   53         409.1678, F.S.; providing an exemption from public
   54         records requirements for information about the
   55         location of safe houses and safe foster homes held by
   56         an agency; providing for future legislative review and
   57         repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of
   58         public necessity; providing a contingent effective
   59         date.