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House approves nondisclosure option for certain public servants' personal information after heated debate
Summary
H.342 would let judges, law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates and other covered public servants request that data brokers cease disclosing protected personal information such as home addresses; the House adopted committee amendments and ordered third reading after a 99–45 roll-call on the floor.
The Vermont House on Wednesday amended and advanced H.342, a nondisclosure bill giving a defined set of public servants and their immediate family members the right to send a notice to private data brokers requesting cessation of disclosure of specified "protected information," including home addresses, personal email and phone numbers, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and vehicle identifiers.
Representative Priestley, member from Bradford and sponsor of the bill on the floor, framed H.342 as a narrow, targeted response to documented threats and violent incidents in which publicly available personal information has been used to locate and attack public servants or their families. "This bill is a direct…
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