Florida Senate - 2026                                    SB 1426
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       40-00781A-26                                          20261426__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to accessing personnel files of law
    3         enforcement officers; creating s. 112.537, F.S.;
    4         defining the term “employing agency”; requiring the
    5         employing agency of a law enforcement officer to
    6         maintain in the personnel file or other public record
    7         a log documenting the name, address, and
    8         identification presented of any person requesting and
    9         receiving from the employing agency such files or
   10         records of such officer; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Section 112.537, Florida Statutes, is created
   15  and incorporated into part VI of chapter 112, Florida Statutes,
   16  to read:
   17         112.537 Access to public records.—
   18         (1) As used in this section, the term “employing agency”
   19  has the same meaning as in s. 943.10(4).
   20         (2) The employing agency of a law enforcement officer which
   21  furnishes the personnel file or other public record of such
   22  officer shall maintain in such file or record a log documenting
   23  the name, address, and type of identification presented, if any,
   24  of any person who requests and receives the personnel file or
   25  other public record.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.