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Committee debates A2799 privacy redactions for officials’ home addresses
Summary
Witnesses and members clashed over A2799’s requirement that custodians redact elected officials’ and candidates’ home addresses; advocates for open government warned it would impede election challenges under Title 19, while an assembly member said safety concerns for families justify redaction.
A State Assembly committee discussed A2799, a bill that would require custodians to redact the primary or secondary home addresses of elected officials, candidates for public office and immediate family members unless a redaction request is approved by the Office of Information Privacy in the Department of Community Affairs.
Supporters of redaction framed the measure as a safety and privacy protection. An assembly…
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