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Committee hears bill to extend demographic-data privacy to local government employees

Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs and Elections Committee · January 23, 2026
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Summary

SB6123 would expand an existing public-records exemption to protect voluntarily supplied demographic information of local government employees from disclosure; local HR officials testified that the change would preserve employee trust while allowing aggregate reporting.

Committee staff and witnesses described Senate Bill 6,123 on Jan. 23 as an expansion of an existing exemption that currently protects voluntarily supplied personal demographic information for state employees. The proposed change would extend the exemption to county and city employees when demographic details (race, ethnicity, sexual orientation,…

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