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Committee advances bill to let judges redact contact details from some public sites to reduce safety risks
Summary
The Judiciary Committee approved House Bill 199 to let judges submit a form through the Administrative Office of the Courts and local governments to restrict personally identifiable information from public websites; sponsors said the change reduces cybersecurity and cost concerns from an earlier centralized database approach.
Representative Kelly, a sponsor of House Bill 199, told the Judiciary Committee that the bill would allow judges to submit a form to the Administrative Office of the Courts and local governments so certain personally identifiable information would be removed from public websites. "We've seen in our country instances where our judges and their closest family members have been attacked, threatened, and lives been put at danger," Representative Kelly said.
The bill aims to modify a process established last year under Senate Bill 580 that would have maintained a single database of…
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