Title: Consumer Protection

Summary: Requires the Department of Corrections to provide each inmate in a correctional facility the opportunity to place a security freeze on his or her consumer report. Requires the department, at the request of the inmate, to provide the appropriate forms to the inmate to initiate the security freeze process. Requires that the inmate pay all fees and expenses incurred in the application for a security freeze.

Full Text:
An act relating to consumer protection; amending s. 501.005, F.S.; requiring the Department of Corrections to provide each inmate in a correctional facility the opportunity to place a security freeze on his or her consumer report; requiring the department, at the request of the inmate, to provide the appropriate forms to the inmate to initiate the security freeze process; requiring that the inmate pay all fees and expenses incurred in the application for a security freeze; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (18) is added to section 501.005, Florida Statutes, to read: 501.005 Consumer report security freeze.  (18)   The Department of Corrections shall provide each inmate in a correctional facility the opportunity to place a security freeze on his or her consumer report pursuant to this section. The department shall, at the request of the inmate, provide the appropriate forms to the inmate to initiate the security freeze process. All fees and expenses incurred in the application for a security freeze shall be paid by the inmate. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.