Title: OGSR/Stalking Victims Identifying Information

Summary: Transferring, renumbering, and amending provisions relating to an exemption from public records requirements for certain information of persons who are victims of stalking or aggravated stalking; removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to a review under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; transferring, renumbering, and amending s. 97.0585(3) and (5), F.S., relating to an exemption from public records requirements for certain information of persons who are victims of stalking or aggravated stalking; removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Present subsection (4) of section 97.0585, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (3) of that section, and present subsections (3) and (5) of that section are transferred and renumbered as section 741.4651, Florida Statutes, and amended, to read: 741.4651 Public records exemption; victims of stalking or aggravated stalking.  (3)  The names, addresses, and telephone numbers of persons who are victims of stalking or aggravated stalking are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution in the same manner that the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of participants in the Address Confidentiality Program for Victims of Domestic Violence which are held by the Attorney General under s. 741.465 are exempt from disclosure, provided that the victim files a sworn statement of stalking with the Office of the Attorney General and otherwise complies with the procedures in ss. 741.401-741.409. (5) Subsection (3) is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2015, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature. Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2015.