The Florida Senate

383.412  Public records and public meetings exemptions.--

(1)(a)  Any information that reveals the identity of the surviving siblings, family members, or others living in the home of a deceased child who is the subject of review by, and which information is held by, the State Child Abuse Death Review Committee or local committee, or a panel or committee assembled by the state committee or a local committee pursuant to s. 383.402, is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.

(b)  Information made confidential or exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution that is obtained by the State Child Abuse Death Review Committee or a local committee, or a panel or committee assembled by the state committee or a local committee pursuant to s. 383.402, shall retain its confidential or exempt status.

(2)  Portions of meetings of the State Child Abuse Death Review Committee or local committee, or a panel or committee assembled by the state committee or a local committee pursuant to s. 383.402, at which information made confidential and exempt pursuant to subsection (1) is discussed are exempt from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution.

(3)  The State Child Abuse Death Review Committee and local committees may share with each other any relevant information regarding case reviews involving child death, which information is made confidential and exempt by this section.

(4)  Any person who knowingly or willfully makes public or discloses to any unauthorized person any information made confidential and exempt under this section commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083

(5)  This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2010, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.

History.--s. 1, ch. 2005-190.