Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 762
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/23/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Baxley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 34 - 77
    4  and insert:
    5  defender’s office, or any office of criminal conflict and civil
    6  regional counsel which require the activities requiring
    7  concealment of publicly leased or owned motor vehicles or
    8  vessels and a statement of the position classifications of the
    9  individuals who are authorized to use the license plate or
   10  decal. The department may modify its records to reflect the
   11  fictitious identity of the owner or lessee until such time as
   12  the license plate or decal and registration certificate are
   13  surrendered to it.
   14         (3) This section constitutes an exception to other statutes
   15  relating to falsification of public records, false swearing, and
   16  similar matters. All records relating to the registration
   17  application of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control
   18  Unit, a law enforcement agency, or any state public defender’s
   19  office, or any office of criminal conflict and civil regional
   20  counsel, and records necessary to carry out the intended purpose
   21  of this section, are exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1),
   22  and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution as long as the
   23  information is retained by the department. This section does not
   24  prohibit other personations, fabrications, or creations of false
   25  identifications by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control
   26  Unit, or law enforcement or public defender’s officers, or any
   27  office of criminal conflict and civil regional counsel in the
   28  official performance of covert operations.
   29         (4) This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset
   30  Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed
   31  on October 2, 2026, unless reviewed and saved from repeal
   32  through reenactment by the Legislature.
   33  Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public necessity
   34  that all records relating to the application of a confidential
   35  registration certificate and registration license plate or decal
   36  submitted by an office of criminal conflict and civil regional
   37  counsel, and any other records necessary to carry out the
   38  intended purpose of s. 320.025, Florida Statutes, be made exempt
   39  from s. 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and s. 24(a), Article I of
   40  the State Constitution. Investigations by an office of criminal
   41  conflict and civil regional counsel may be jeopardized by the
   42  registration of motor vehicles under the office’s name or under
   43  the names of the office’s investigators in that persons under
   44  investigation may acquire such registration information in order
   45  to seek retaliation against the office or its investigators.
   46  Authorizing offices of criminal conflict and civil regional
   47  counsel to obtain confidential registration certificates and
   48  registration license plates or decals in the same manner as any
   49  state public defender's office
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   51  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   52  And the title is amended as follows:
   53         Delete lines 7 - 10
   54  and insert:
   55         specified activities; expanding a public records
   56         exemption to include all records pertaining to a
   57         registration application submitted by any office of
   58         criminal conflict and civil regional counsel;
   59         providing for