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Senate adopts amendment to extend judges' privacy protections to online property records; counties raise cost and scope concerns
Summary
The Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee on March 17 adopted an amendment to extend privacy protections for judges and judicial staff so certain online real property records can be treated as private upon request.
The Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee on March 17 adopted an author's amendment (A1) to a judicial-safety bill that would extend existing privacy protections for judges and judicial staff to specified online property records. The committee then laid Senate File 2039 over for possible inclusion in the committee's omnibus package.
Supporters, including state and federal judges, told the committee that most violent attacks or threats against judges have occurred at judges' homes and that property records are a common way attackers find home addresses online. "If we judges could protect only one category of our personal information, only one, it would be our home addresses," said Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schultz, who described high-profile attacks in other states in recent years.
Judge John Guthman of Ramsey County, a member of the Judicial District Judges Association and the Legislative…
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