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Committee hears debate over ERIC, hashing and data-sharing costs after Georgia opt-out of EBU mailings
Summary
The committee pressed state staff on ERIC membership, hashed-data transfers, and the August 2024 exemption from ERICs eligible-but-unregistered mailings; the state said hashed strings (not raw Social Security numbers) are exchanged and that the EBU mailing was waived due to cost and coverage by DDS.
Committee members spent substantial time on cross-state data sharing through ERIC, how Georgias hashed-data process works, and why the state requested an exemption from ERICs eligible-but-unregistered (EBU) mailing program in 2024.
What state staff said: Blake Evans said Georgia joins ERIC under authority granted in House Bill 316 (2019) and that an exemption to the EBU mailings was approved by ERIC members after the state concluded the cost of that outreach did not justify the…
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