BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 27, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
AB
2843 (Chau) - As Amended March 18, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: YesReimbursable:
No
SUMMARY:
This bill extends an existing provision of the California Public
Records Act (PRA) exempting the home addresses and home
telephone numbers of state employees and employees of a school
district or county office of education from public disclosure to
also exempt from the disclosure an employee's personal cellular
phone numbers and personal electronic mail addresses.
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FISCAL EFFECT:
Negligible fiscal impact.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. Existing law exempts from disclosure under the
California Public Records Act (CPRA) the home addresses and home
phone numbers of state employees and employees of a school
district or county office of education, unless the disclosure is
made to a family member, an employee organization or to another
agency or entity for a designated administrative purpose. This
non-controversial bill simply extends this exemption to include
modern forms of employee contact information: personal cell
phone numbers and personal e-mail addresses. The bill would not
apply to work-issued cell phones or e-mail accounts.
The bill is supported by the California Federation of Labor,
SEIU California, and the Peace Officers Research Association of
California (PORAC), who see it as an attempt to "modernize" the
existing exemption, because an employee's personal contact
information is no longer restricted to a home address or its
corresponding "landline" phone number.
Analysis Prepared by:Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
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