AB 966

This bill establishes privacy protections for judicial officers and a procedure for

a judicial officer to complete a written request for protection of the personal

information of the judicial officer and the judicial officer's immediate family.

Under the bill, a government agency may not publicly post or display publicly

available content that includes a judicial officer's personal information, provided

that the government agency has received a written request from the officer that the

agency refrain from disclosing the personal information. Upon receipt of the written

request, the agency must remove the personal information within five business days

and may not publicly post or display the information. The personal information is

also exempt from public records requests unless the agency has received consent to

make the information available to the public.

The bill also provides that, upon receipt of a written request for privacy

protections from a judicial officer, all persons, businesses, and associations must

refrain from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet publicly available content

that includes the personal information of the judicial officer or the judicial officer's

immediate family. The prohibition does not apply to personal information that the

judicial officer or an immediate family member of the judicial officer voluntarily

publishes on the Internet after the bill goes into effect or personal information

lawfully received from a state or federal government source, including from an

employee or agent of the state or federal government.

After a person, business, or association has received a written request from a

judicial officer, the person, business, or association must, within 72 hours of the

request, remove the personal information from the Internet; ensure that the judicial

officer's personal information is not made available on any website or subsidiary

website controlled by that person, business, or association; and identify any other

instances of the identified information that should also be removed. Under the bill,

once a written request is received, no person, business, or association may transfer

the judicial officer's personal information to any other person, business, or

association through any medium, except for personal information that the judicial

officer or an immediate family member of the judicial officer voluntarily publishes

on the Internet after the bill goes into effect, or if a transfer is made at the request

of the judicial officer or is necessary to effectuate a request to the person, business,

or association from the judicial officer. The bill also expressly prohibits a data broker,

as defined in the bill, from knowingly selling, licensing, trading, purchasing, or

otherwise making available for consideration the personal information of a judicial

officer or a judicial officer's immediate family.

Under the bill, a candidate for a judicial office may, instead of having his or her

name and residential address listed on nomination papers, file a certification of

residence with the Elections Commission before circulating nomination papers. A

judicial officer circulating nomination papers on behalf of a candidate for a