Bill > SB121

This bill establishes protections for public servants and their families by creating a Public Servant Address Confidentiality Program, administered by the Secretary of State, which allows eligible individuals to use a substitute address for official purposes and shield their actual home address from public records. "Protected individuals" include various law enforcement officials, prosecutors, elected officials, and their immediate family members, and the bill outlines procedures for requesting the non-publication or removal of their personal information, defined broadly to include home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and other sensitive data, from public view on the internet or social media. Governmental entities and private individuals are required to comply with these removal requests within 72 hours, and violations can lead to legal action, including injunctions and damages, with criminal penalties for knowingly publishing personal information that results in harm. The bill also amends existing law to include this new Public Servant Address Confidentiality Program alongside other address confidentiality programs for victims of domestic violence and judicial personnel, and it specifies that while substitute addresses can be used for most purposes, actual addresses must still be used for voter registration, candidacy filings, and campaign finance reporting, with limited exceptions for disclosure to law enforcement or by court order.