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Committee hears judges urge bill to bar data brokers from selling their personal information
Summary
The Committee on State Affairs considered Senate Bill 2459, which would bar data brokers from selling or posting certain personal information about judges and court staff at the request of those employees. Two judges who survived threats and an assassination attempt urged passage; committee accepted a substitute and left the measure pending.
The Committee on State Affairs opened the meeting by taking up Senate Bill 2459, which would restrict data brokers from selling, licensing or otherwise making available the personal information of judges and certain court personnel when those individuals request that information be kept private. The measure drew personal testimony from two judges who said publicly available data had made them and their families the targets of threats and violent attacks.
Judge Julie Kocurek of the 390th District Court described a 2015 assassination attempt and the role of online data in enabling it: “I remember it like it was yesterday. My assailant was in my…
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