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Committee hears bill to shield cannabis workers’ home addresses and phone numbers from public records
Summary
The House Committee on Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade held a public hearing on Senate Bill 870, which would exempt residential addresses and personal phone numbers of cannabis permit holders from public disclosure to protect workers after reports of burglaries and safety concerns.
The House Committee on Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade opened a public hearing Monday on Senate Bill 870, a proposal to exempt the residential addresses and personal phone numbers of people who hold permits to work in the cannabis industry from public-records disclosure. The committee opened the hearing at the start of its April 21 meeting and closed it after testimony and questions.
The bill was presented by Craig Prinz, executive director of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC), who said the exemption is intended to protect employees after a “raft of robberies and burglaries” at licensed cannabis premises and instances where permit-holder contact information has been produced through…
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