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Bill would expand records exemptions for survivors and student surveys; supporters and transparency advocates clash
Summary
Substitute Senate Bill 6049 would expand exemptions under the Public Records Act to include certain survivors and anonymous student survey responses; the Office of Financial Management supported the privacy protections while open-government advocates urged caution and opposed additional exemptions.
A hearing on substitute Senate Bill 6049 on Feb. 25 focused on expanding exemptions under the Public Records Act and on protections for survey data.
Staff explained three main changes: expanding employment-information exemptions to include survivors of hate crimes when the employee or a dependent provides a sworn statement and indicates continuing risk; permitting disclosure of anonymized demographic survey data (versus de-identified data), and creating a new exemption for individual-level responses to the Healthy…
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