An Act to Limit Public IO Access to or Dissemination of Electronic Citation Information
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 0023
Committee Amendment CA_A_S28 (Senate)
Amends: 29-A MRSA §2601

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "/f " to S.P. 15, L.D. 23, "An Act to Limit Public 
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Access to or Dissemination of Electronic Citation Information" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act to Limit Public Access to or Dissemination of Electronic Citation and 
Electronic Warning Information' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §2601, sub-§3-A, as enacted by PL 2013, c. 112, §9, is 
amended to read: 
3-A. Electronic Violation Summons and Complaint. Notwithstanding subsection 
3, the Chief Judge of the District Court may approve for use an electronic Violation 
Summons and Complaint form. The electronic Violation Summons and Complaint form 
must include, at a minimum, an electronic or digital signature of the officer, a brief 
description of the alleged offense, the time and place of the alleged offense and the date on 
or before which the person is to file a written answer with the violations bureau. Personally 
identifying information that is contained in the electronic citation or the electronic warning 
database maintained, administered or contributed to by the Department of Public Safety, 
Bureau of State Police is confidential, except that personally identifying information that 
is contained in these databases may be shared with another criminal justice agency, 
delivered to the person under subsection 7 and transmitted to the violations bureau as 
required by subsection 9. For the purposes of this subsection, "personally identifying 
information" means an individual's name, residential and post office mailing addresses, 
date of birth and driver's license number, a vehicle registration plate number and any other 
information contained in a data field that may be used to identify a person.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" /-j "to S.P. 15, L.D. 23 ( S ? yj "\ 
SUMMARY 
The bill provides that personally identifying information that is located within the 
electronic citation database maintained, administered or contributed to by the Department 
of Public Safety, Bureau of State Police is confidential. This amendment, which is the 
majority report of the committee, provides similar protection to information in the bureau's 
electronic warnings database. It also clarifies that the bil1 does not prevent a law 
enforcement officer from sharing this information with another criminal justice agency, 
serving the Violation Summons and Complaint on the person charged with having 
committed the traffic infraction or transmitting the electronic Violation Summons and 
Complaint to the violations bureau of the District Court. Public access to violations bureau 
court records, including personally identifying information contained in a Violation 
Summons and Complaint, is governed by the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 80F. 
The amendment also adds a definition of "personally identifying information." 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT