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 10 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 remove, within 10 business
days, the publicly posted or displayed personal information identified in the request;
ensure that the information is not publicly posted or displayed on any website or
subsidiary website controlled by that person, business, or association; and identify
any other publicly posted or displayed instances of the identified information that
should 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, provided that the judicial officer has made a written request to the
data broker. Under the bill, the data broker must cease knowingly selling, licensing,
trading, purchasing, or otherwise making available personal information for
consideration pursuant to the written request within 10 business days of the written
request.

The bill requires the register of deeds to shield from disclosure and keep
confidential certain documents covered by a judicial officer's written request for
protection of personal information, if the documents to be protected are specifically
identified by the judicial officer. The bill also requires that any provider of a
public-facing land records website must establish a process for judicial officers and
immediate family members of judicial officers to opt out from the display and search
functions of their names on the provider's public-facing land records websites.

Under the bill, certain judicial officers may designate the director of state
courts as the judicial officer's agent for purposes of service of process. If the director
of state courts receives service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted
by law to be served on a judicial officer who has designated the director of state courts
as his or her agent, the director of state courts must forward the process, notice, or
demand to the judicial officer's home address.

The bill also provides that 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 nonpartisan office, or signing nomination papers supporting a

---

candidate for a nonpartisan office, may similarly file a certification of residence with
the Elections Commission before circulating or signing nomination papers. The bill
requires the commission, by rule, to verify the address provided in the certification
of residence. Under current law, generally, a candidate for a state or local elective
office must file nomination papers with the commission or, for a local office, with the
appropriate municipal clerk. The top of each nomination paper must list the
candidate's full name, including any nickname or former surname, and his or her
residential street address. Under current law, a person circulating nomination
papers on behalf of a candidate for a judicial office must also provide a certification
at the bottom of each nomination paper stating his or her residential street address.