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AL SB329
Bill
Status
5/26/2023
Primary Sponsor
Will Barfoot
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AI Summary
SB329 - Judicial Privacy Act
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Prohibits government agencies, individuals, businesses, and associations from publicly posting judges' or justices' personal information online after receiving a written request to refrain, with government agencies required to remove information within 10 business days.
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Prohibits commercial data brokers from knowingly selling, trading, licensing, transferring, or purchasing judicial officers' personal information.
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Allows judges to submit written requests directly to entities or through the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts to protect personal information including home addresses, phone numbers, email, social security numbers, driver's license numbers, and vehicle/residence photographs.
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Makes it a Class C felony to knowingly post personal information online when the poster knows or should know it poses an imminent and serious threat to a judge's health and safety and the posting proximately causes bodily injury or death.
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Provides judicial officers the right to pursue injunctive or declaratory relief in court for violations, with violators required to pay court costs and reasonable attorney's fees; becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval.
Legislative Description
Relating to judges and justices; to prohibit government agencies, individuals, businesses, and associations from publicly posting or displaying judge's or justice's personal information on the Internet, provided they have received a written request from the judge or justice to refrain from doing so; to prohibit commercial data collectors from knowingly selling, trading, licensing, transferring, or purchasing judges' personal information; to provide for a process for a judge or justice to request their personal information not be made public; to provide for penalties for violations; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022.
Last Action
Referred to Committee to House Judiciary
5/26/2023