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Legislative research office seeks confidentiality protections; committee hears divided testimony
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The Senate Committee on Rules held a public hearing on Senate Bill 555 about confidentiality for research data collected by the Legislative Policy and Research Office.
The Senate Committee on Rules held a public hearing on Senate Bill 555, a proposal to allow the Legislative Policy and Research Office (LPRO) to maintain confidentiality for unpublished personally identifiable information gathered during legislative research.
LPRO director Misty Mason Freeman told the committee, "LPRO does not have the ability to safeguard unpublished personally identifiable information that's gathered in response to a research inquiry." Freeman said that limitation reduces LPRO's ability to collect certain types of field data and could undermine public trust in the office's research. Oliver Droppers, LPRO deputy director for policy research, described the office's growing workload: since 2021 LPRO has staffed task forces and…
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