Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 300
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
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                  04/01/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Rouson) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 442 - 461
    4  and insert:
    5         The Legislature finds that it is a public necessity that
    6  the home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and
    7  photographs of current appellate court clerks, deputy clerks,
    8  and clerk of the appellate court personnel; the names, home
    9  addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of
   10  employment of the spouses and children of such appellate court
   11  clerks, deputy clerks, and clerk of the appellate court
   12  personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care
   13  facilities attended by the children of such appellate court
   14  clerks, deputy clerks, and clerk of the appellate court
   15  personnel, be made exempt from s. 119.07(1), Florida Statutes,
   16  and s. 24(a), Article I of the State Constitution. While
   17  performing their duties to issue court orders, maintain case
   18  dockets, answer telephone calls, respond to correspondence, and
   19  interact with visitors to the courthouse, appellate court
   20  clerks, deputy clerks, and clerk of the appellate personnel, may
   21  incur the ill will of litigants and their associates and
   22  families. As a result, current appellate court clerks, deputy
   23  clerks, and clerk of the appellate court personnel, and their
   24  spouses and children may be targets for acts of revenge. If such
   25  identifying and location information is released, the safety of
   26  current appellate court clerks, deputy clerks, and clerk of the
   27  appellate court personnel, and their spouses and children could
   28  be seriously jeopardized. For this reason, the Legislature finds
   29  that it is a public necessity that such information be made
   30  exempt from public records.