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This bill creates the "Elected Official Protection Act" to safeguard personal information and physical safety for certain elected officials, including legislators, governors, lieutenant governors, attorneys general, and secretaries of state, along with their immediate family members. The bill defines "personal identifying information" broadly, covering details like home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, vehicle identifiers, and school or employment location information. Protected individuals can request that public bodies and other persons remove or refrain from publicly posting their personal identifying information, which must be complied with within five business days. The bill provides exceptions for certain uses of personal information, such as news reporting, information voluntarily published by the individual, health and safety alerts, and financial or credit reporting purposes. If a public body or person fails to comply with a removal request, the protected individual can file a civil action to compel compliance, and if successful, can recover court costs and attorney fees. The act includes provisions for submitting protection requests through a designated contact and specifies that it does not require permanent deletion of protected information, only preventing public access. The bill will take effect 180 days after enactment and is contingent on the passage of another related bill.

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