Amendment S-5135 to HF 2255
Relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders
Never voted on
Filed March 24, 2026 in the Senate by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment expands the list of people who can request to hide their names and addresses from public electronic property records to include members of county boards of supervisors, city councils, and school boards. It also adds a rule that allows officials to ask for proof that a person owns the business whose address they want to hide.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 1, by striking lines 3 through 11 and inserting: “(1) Upon request by a peace officer, as defined in section 801.4 , civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, or state or federal judicial officer or state or federal prosecutor, United States senator, representative to Congress, statewide elected official, member of the general assembly, member of a county board of supervisors, member of a city council, or member of a school board, the county assessor or the county assessor’s staff, or the county recorder or the county recorder’s staff, shall redact the requestor’s name and all references to the requestor’s address and the address of any business owned in whole or in part by the requestor contained in electronic documents that are displayed for public access through an internet site , whether retrievable by searching the requestor’s full or partial name, by searching the requestor’s address or the requestor’s business’s address, or by searching through other means that would normally reveal the address of the requestor or the requestor’s business’s address, including but not limited to searching by the name of the requestor’s spouse . An electronic search of a requestor’s name shall result in no search results. The county assessor or the county assessor’s staff, or the county recorder or the county recorder’s staff, may require reasonable documentation that proves the requestor owns the business in whole or in part when requesting the redaction of the business’s address.”