Bill Text: FL S0888 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: OGSR/Information Held by Guardians Ad Litem [SPSC]

Spectrum: Unknown

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2010-04-21 - Read 3rd time -SJ 00665; Substituted HB 7111 -SJ 00665; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 7111(Ch. 2010-75) -SJ 00665 [S0888 Detail]

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Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 888 
 
By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs 
586-00910-10                                           2010888__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to a review under the Open Government 
3         Sunset Review Act; amending s. 39.0132, F.S., relating 
4         to an exemption from public-records requirements for 
5         information held by guardians ad litem; saving the 
6         exemption from repeal under the Open Government Sunset 
7         Review Act; deleting provisions providing for repeal 
8         of the exemption; providing an effective date. 
9 
10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
11 
12         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section 
13  39.0132, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
14         39.0132 Oaths, records, and confidential information.— 
15         (4)(a)1. All information obtained pursuant to this part in 
16  the discharge of official duty by any judge, employee of the 
17  court, authorized agent of the department, correctional 
18  probation officer, or law enforcement agent is confidential and 
19  exempt from s. 119.07(1) and may not be disclosed to anyone 
20  other than the authorized personnel of the court, the department 
21  and its designees, correctional probation officers, law 
22  enforcement agents, guardian ad litem, and others entitled under 
23  this chapter to receive that information, except upon order of 
24  the court. 
25         2. Any information related to the best interests of a 
26  child, as determined by a guardian ad litem, which is held by a 
27  guardian ad litem, including but not limited to medical, mental 
28  health, substance abuse, child care, education, law enforcement, 
29  court, social services, and financial records; and any other 
30  information maintained by a guardian ad litem which is 
31  identified as confidential information under this chapter; is 
32  confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I 
33  of the State Constitution. Such confidential and exempt 
34  information may not be disclosed to anyone other than the 
35  authorized personnel of the court, the department and its 
36  designees, correctional probation officers, law enforcement 
37  agents, guardians ad litem, and others entitled under this 
38  chapter to receive that information, except upon order of the 
39  court. This subparagraph is subject to the Open Government 
40  Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand 
41  repealed on October 2, 2010, unless reviewed and saved from 
42  repeal through reenactment by the Legislature. 
43         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2010.