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CO HB1028

CO HB1028
Modifications to Address Confidentiality Program

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Introduced
01/08/2025
In Committee
02/12/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
03/10/2025

Introduced Session

Potential new amendment
2025 Regular Session

Bill Summary

The bill modifies the address confidentiality program (program), which is intended to protect the confidentiality of the actual address of a relocated protected health-care worker or a relocated victim of domestic violence, a sexual offense, human trafficking, or stalking. The modifications to the program are: ! Expanding the requirement to use a substitute address for a program participant from applying only to government agencies to applying to private entities, upon request of the program participant; ! Removing work and school addresses from the definition of actual address, such that an actual address only covers a residential address; ! Allowing a program participant to apply with their actual address and either a telephone number or an email address, rather than requiring a telephone number; ! Clarifying that entities and agencies must use a substitute address in the place of the name of a school or employer or for a program participant's home-based business, if requested; ! Increasing the court fine applied to convictions for certain offenses, which is used to fund the program, from $28 to $33 and expanding this fine by applying it to convictions for sexual assault and municipal offenses for domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, and human trafficking; ! Creating a process to allow program participants to shield real property records from public inspection; and ! Allowing a criminal justice official or government agency that has requested and been approved for expedited disclosure of a program participant's actual address to share the actual address with a law enforcement agency for the purpose of conducting a welfare check. The bill also makes technical and conforming amendments.

AI Summary

This bill proposes modifications to Colorado's Address Confidentiality Program (ACP), a program designed to protect victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and stalking by providing them with a substitute address to keep their actual location confidential. The bill expands the program's protections by introducing several key changes, including adding new provisions for shielding real property records, expanding the types of documentation acceptable for program application, and broadening the definition of unique location information. Specifically, the bill allows program participants to request that their real property records be removed from public inspection, adds more flexibility in documenting eligibility for the program (such as previous enrollment in confidential address programs or documentation from reproductive health-care providers), and clarifies the process for protecting participants' personal information across various government agencies. The bill also updates language to be gender-neutral, adds email addresses to the types of contact information that can be protected, and increases the surcharge for certain criminal convictions from $28 to $33 starting in July 2025, with the funds supporting the Address Confidentiality Program. The modifications aim to provide more comprehensive protection for vulnerable individuals by creating additional barriers to potential abusers or stalkers who might try to locate program participants through public records.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance, Justice

Sponsors (2)

Last Action

House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely (on 03/10/2025)

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