HB 2695 — address confidentiality program

REFERENCEFifty-seventh TITLE:Legislature Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections Second Regular Session H.B.

address confidentiality program State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session HB 2695 IntroducedPROPOSED byHOUSE RepresentativeOF WilloughbyREPRESENTATIVES ANAMENDMENTS ACTTO AMENDINGH.B. SECTIONS 16-153, 41-162 AND 41-166, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES;

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The bill as proposed to be amended is reprinted as follows:

The reasons for reasonably believing that the person's life or safety or that of another person is in danger and that sealing the identifyingHouse informationAmendments and voting precinct number of the person's voting record will serve to reduceH.B. the danger.

2695 identifying information and voting precinct number of the person's voting record will serve to reduce the danger.

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The county recorder shall send by mail one notice to either the health professional, election officer, public official, former public official, peace officer, spouse of a peace officer, spouse or minor child of a deceased peace officer, public defender, prosecutor, code enforcement officer, corrections or detention officer, corrections support staff member, law enforcement support staff member, employee of the department of child safety or employee of adult protective services who has direct contact with families in the course of employment or the employing agency of the peace officer, public defender, prosecutor, code enforcement officer, corrections or detention officer, corrections support staff member or law enforcement support staff member who was granted an order pursuant to this section of the order's expiration-2- dateHouse atAmendments leastto sixH.B. months before the January 5 removal date.

2695 expiration date at least six months before the January 5 removal date.

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IF A PROGRAM PARTICIPANT PURSUANT TO TITLE 41, CHAPTER 1, ARTICLE 3 DIES, THE VOTER REGISTRATION RECORDS AT[AT] [OF] THE OTHER REGISTERED VOTERS WHO RESIDE AT THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF THE PROGRAM PARTICIPANT SHALL CONTINUE TO REMAIN SEALED.

The[THE informationRECORD inSHALL theBE registrationRELEASED shallAS notDIRECTED beBY disclosedTHE andCOURT isOR notPURSUANT aTO publicTHE record.PRIVACY ACT OF 1974 (5 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 552a) -3- House Amendments to H.B.

2695 RELATING TO A FRAUD INVESTIGATION.] The information in the registration shall not be disclosed and is not a public record.

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"Law enforcement support staff member" means a person who serves in the role of an investigator or prosecutorial assistant in an agency that investigates or prosecutes crimes, who is integral to the investigation-4- orHouse prosecutionAmendments ofto crimesH.B. and whose name or identity will be revealed in the course of public proceedings.

2695 investigation or prosecution of crimes and whose name or identity will be revealed in the course of public proceedings.

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Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by court rule, a program participant may be served by registered mail or by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the program participant at the program participant's substitute address with any process,-5- noticeHouse orAmendments demand required or allowed by law to beH.B. served on the program participant.

2695 process, notice or demand required or allowed by law to be served on the program participant.

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The state or local government entity may make a photocopy of the card for the records of the state-6- orHouse localAmendments government entity and shall immediately return the card to theH.B. program participant.

2695 state or local government entity and shall immediately return the card to the program participant.

The substitute address given to the court is considered the last known address for the program participant used by the - 6 - HB 2695 court until the time that the court receives notification pursuant to section 41-164.

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For any public record created within ninety days before the date that a program participant applied to be certified in the program, a state or local government entity shall redact the actual address from a public record or change the actual address to the substitute address in the public record, if a program participant who presents a current and valid program authorization card requests the entity that maintains the public-8- recordHouse Amendments to useH.B. the substitute address instead of the actual address on the public record.

-2695 8public -record to use the substitute address instead of the actual address on the public record.

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