HB 1129 — Pub. Rec./Crime Victims

F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S HBCS/HB 1129 2025 A bill to be entitled An act relating to public records;

providing thatdefinitions; specific types of public records that are associated with crime victims are confidential and exempt from public records requirements;

specifyingexpanding conditionsa underpublic whichrecord suchexemption confidentialfor crime victims to include the name and personal identification number of the victim and any other information mustor records that could be released;used to locate, intimidate, harass, or abuse a victim or the victim's family;

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providing penalties;an exception to the public record exemption;

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providing requirements for futurean legislativeextension reviewof andtime repeal of thesuch exemption;period;

authorizing waivers of the exemptions;

providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions;

119.071Page General1 exemptions from inspection or copying of public8 records.—CODING: (2) AGENCY INVESTIGATIONS.— (j)1.

Any public record document that reveals the identity, personal identification number, home or employment Page 1 of 5 CODING:

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For purposes of this subparagraph, the term:

(I) "Employing agency head" means an elected or appointed head official of an employing agency as defined in s.

943.10(4) who is certified under s.

943.13.

(II) "Officer" means any full-time, part-time, or auxiliary law enforcement officer, correctional officer, or correctional probation officer certified under s.

943.13.

(III) "Use of force incident" means any incident that occurs within the scope of an officer's employment or official duties and involves the officer's use of deadly force as defined in s.

776.06, or any other use of force that results in great bodily harm.

(IV) "Victim" means a person who suffers direct or threatened physical, psychological, or financial harm as a result of the commission or attempted commission of a crime or delinquent act or against whom the crime or delinquent act is committed.

The term includes the victim's lawful representative, the parent or guardian of a minor, or the next of kin of a homicide victim, except upon a showing that the interest of such person would be in actual or potential conflict with the interests of the victim.

The term does not include the accused.

b.

Any public record document that reveals the identity, Page 2 of 8 CODING:

Words stricken are deletions;

words underlined are additions.

hb1129-01-c1 F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S CS/HB 1129 2025 including the name or personal identification number, home or employment telephone number, home or employment address, or personal assets of the victim, or any other information or records that could be used to locate, intimidate, harass, or abuse the victim or the victim's family, of a crime and identifies that person as the victim of a crime, which public record is generated or document is received by any agency that regularly generates or receives information from or concerning the victims of crime, is confidential and exempt from s.

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The court may not deny a criminal defendant access to the information if the denial would interfere with the defendant's constitutional rights.

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This subparagraph does not restrict the contempt powers of any court or a court's inherent authority to regulate the conduct of the parties in any judicial proceeding.

Any information not otherwise held confidential or exempt from s.

119.07(1) which reveals the home or employment telephone number, home or Page 2 of 5 CODING:

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119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2030, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.

If after review this sub-subparagraph is not reenacted, the text of this sub-subparagraph shall revert to that in existence on June 30, 2025, except that any amendments to this sub-subparagraph enacted other than by this act shall be preserved and continue to operate to the extent that such amendments are not dependent upon the amendments to the sub-subparagraph made by this act.