Bill > S1291

Introduced Session

This bill expands "Daniel's Law" to prohibit the disclosure of personal identifying information of a victim support advocate and victim support care provider. Under current law, Daniel's Law protects the personal identifying information of active, formerly active, or retired judicial officers, law enforcement officers, child protective investigators in the Division of Child Protection and Permanency and prosecutors, as well as the personal information of immediate family members who reside in the same household as those individuals. Public and private parties are forbidden from publishing the home address and telephone number of a person covered by Daniel's Law. This bill expands Daniel's Law to prohibit the disclosure of personal identifying information of victim support advocates and victim support care providers. A "victim support advocate" is defined as a victim witness coordinator or a victim witness advocate in the State Office of Victim-Witness Advocacy in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety or in a county prosecutor's office. A "victim support care provider" is defined as a program coordinator or forensic sexual assault nurse examiner appointed or designated to serve in the Statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program, or a member of the Sexual Assault Response Team. Victim support advocates and victim support care providers are sources of critical care and assistance to victims of sexual assault. Because victim support advocates and victim support care providers work directly with victims of sexual assault, they are vulnerable to harassment and retaliation by perpetrators of sexual assault. Extending the protection of Daniel's Law to victim support advocates and victim support care providers is intended to protect and provide a measure of comfort to those in this vital profession.

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Linda Greenstein (D)*,  Patrick Diegnan (D), 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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