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OH HB103
Bill
Status
2/15/2011
Primary Sponsor
Lorraine Fende
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AI Summary
HB 103 Summary
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Establishes an address confidentiality program allowing individuals who fear threats or physical harm to apply through the Secretary of State to have a confidential address designated for use with governmental entities instead of their real residential, school, or work address.
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Creates application requirements including a sworn statement of fear, proof of qualifying circumstances (prior crime victimization, protection orders, or reasonable fear of harm), and designation of the Secretary of State as agent for service of process and mail receipt.
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Extends address confidentiality protections to federal law enforcement officers in addition to state/local law enforcement, prosecutors, and other government employees, allowing them to redact personal addresses from public records and replace names with initials on tax documents.
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Exempts program participants' voter registration records from public disclosure while allowing the Secretary of State to maintain and process their voting registrations, and permits program participants to vote by absent ballot through the Secretary of State's office.
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Includes penalties for false application statements (removal from program), allows court petitions in Franklin County to compel address disclosure upon clear and convincing evidence of no increased safety risk, and requires certification renewal every four years.
Legislative Description
To establish an address confidentiality program for individuals who reasonably believe that they are in danger of being threatened or physically harmed by another person, to exclude the residential and familial information of a federal law enforcement officer from the definition of a public record, to include federal law enforcement officers among the protected individuals who are authorized to request a public office other than the county auditor to redact the person's address from any record made available to the general public on the internet, and to include those officers among the protected individuals who may request the county auditor to replace the person's name with the person's initials on the general tax list and duplicate.
Confidentiality of personal information
Last Action
To Judiciary & Ethics
2/15/2011