FL S0144

Creates public records exemption for home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former impaired practitioner consultants retained by agencies and their employees whose duties involve evaluating practitioners' skill and safety to practice licensed professions.

Exempts names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of spouses and children of such consultants and employees, as well as names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by their children.

Exemption applies only if the consultant or employee has made reasonable efforts to protect the information from being publicly accessible through other means.

Exemption is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act and shall be repealed on October 2, 2020, unless the Legislature reviews and reenacts it.

Legislature finds that disclosure of consultant and employee identifying and location information could endanger them and their families due to hostile reactions from practitioners facing license suspension or denial, citing 2013 incidents involving program participant confrontations and threats.