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AB966-ASA2,4,1714 19.36 (14) Privacy protections for judicial officers. An authority shall not
15provide access under s. 19.35 (1) to a certification of residence under s. 8.10 (7) or to
16the personal information, as defined in s. 757.07 (1) (g), of a judicial officer, as defined
17in s. 757.07 (1) (e), except as provided under s. 8.10 (7) (b).
AB966-ASA2,4 18Section 4. 19.55 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB966-ASA2,5,419 19.55 (1) Except as provided in s. 19.36 (14) and subs. (2) to (4), all records
20under ch. 11, this subchapter, or subch. III of ch. 13 in the possession of the
21commission are open to public inspection at all reasonable times. The commission
22shall require an individual wishing to examine a statement of economic interests or
23the list of persons who inspect any statements which are in the commission's
24possession to provide his or her full name and address, and if the individual is
25representing another person, the full name and address of the person which he or she

1represents. Such identification may be provided in writing or in person. The
2commission shall record and retain for at least 3 years information obtained by it
3pursuant to this subsection. No individual may use a fictitious name or address or
4fail to identify a principal in making any request for inspection.
AB966-ASA2,5 5Section 5 . 19.55 (2) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:
AB966-ASA2,5,146 19.55 (2) (cm) The personal information, as defined in s. 757.07 (1) (g), of a
7judicial officer, as defined in s. 757.07 (1) (e), contained in statements of economic
8interests, reports of economic transactions, and campaign finance reports that are
9filed with the commission by judicial officers or the candidate committees of judicial
10officers. The commission shall quarterly review the electronic campaign finance
11information system for the personal information of judicial officers and remove such
12information from the system. In addition, before providing, upon a request, a
13statement of economic interests of a judicial officer, the commission shall remove the
14personal information of the judicial officer.
AB966-ASA2,6 15Section 6. 59.43 (1r) of the statutes is created to read:
AB966-ASA2,5,2416 59.43 (1r) Personal information of judicial officers. (a) The register of
17deeds shall shield from disclosure and keep confidential documents containing
18information covered by a written request of a judicial officer under s. 757.07, if the
19judicial officer specifically identifies the document number of any document to be
20shielded under this subsection. This paragraph applies only to electronic images of
21documents specifically identified by a judicial officer as covered by a written request
22under s. 757.07. The register of deeds may allow access to a document subject to
23protection under this paragraph only if the judicial officer consents to the access or
24access is otherwise permitted as provided under s. 757.07 (4) (e).
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1(b) The register of deeds shall establish a process for judicial officers and
2immediate family members of judicial officers to opt out from the display and search
3functions of their names on public-facing land records websites.
AB966-ASA2,7 4Section 7. 757.07 of the statutes is created to read:
AB966-ASA2,6,6 5757.07 Privacy protections for judicial officers. (1) Definitions. In this
6section:
AB966-ASA2,6,107 (a) “Data broker” means a commercial entity that collects, assembles, or
8maintains personal information concerning an individual who is not a customer or
9an employee of that entity in order to sell the information or provide 3rd-party access
10to the information. “Data broker” does not include any of the following:
AB966-ASA2,6,1411 1. A commercial entity using personal information internally, providing access
12to businesses under common ownership or affiliated by corporate control, or selling
13or providing data for a transaction or service requested by or concerning the
14individual whose personal information is being transferred.
AB966-ASA2,6,1615 2. A commercial entity providing publicly available information through
16real-time or near real-time alert services for health or safety purposes.
AB966-ASA2,6,2217 3. A commercial entity using information that is lawfully made available
18through federal, state, or local government records, or information that a business
19has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public
20through widely distributed media, by the consumer, or by a person to whom the
21consumer has disclosed the information, unless the consumer has restricted the
22information to a specific audience.
AB966-ASA2,7,423 4. A commercial entity engaged in the collection, maintenance, disclosure, sale,
24communication, or use of any personal information bearing on a consumer's credit
25worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal

1characteristics, or mode of living by a consumer reporting agency, furnisher, or user
2that provides information for use in a consumer report, and by a user of a consumer
3report, but only to the extent that such activity is regulated by and authorized under
4the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 USC 1681, et seq.
AB966-ASA2,7,65 5. A consumer reporting agency subject to the federal Fair Credit Reporting
6Act, 15 USC 1681, et seq.
AB966-ASA2,7,97 6. A commercial entity using personal information collected, processed, sold,
8or disclosed in compliance with the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994,
918 USC 2721, et seq.
AB966-ASA2,7,1010 7. A commercial entity using personal information to do any of the following:
AB966-ASA2,7,1211 a. Prevent, detect, protect against, or respond to security incidents, identity
12theft, fraud, harassment, malicious or deceptive activities, or any illegal activity.
AB966-ASA2,7,1313 b. Preserve the integrity or security of systems.
AB966-ASA2,7,1514 c. Investigate, report, or prosecute any person responsible for an action
15described under subd. 7. a. or b.
AB966-ASA2,7,1716 8. A financial institution, affiliate of a financial institution, or data subject to
17title V of the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 15 USC 6801, et seq.
AB966-ASA2,7,2018 9. A covered entity for purposes of the federal privacy regulations promulgated
19under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,
20specifically 42 USC 1320d-2 note.
AB966-ASA2,7,2321 10. A commercial entity engaging in the collection and sale or licensing of
22personal information incidental to conducting the activities described in subds. 1. to
239.
AB966-ASA2,7,2424 11. Insurance and insurance support organizations.
AB966-ASA2,8,2
112. Law enforcement agencies or law enforcement support organizations and
2vendors.
AB966-ASA2,8,63 (b) “Government agency” includes any association, authority, board,
4department, commission, independent agency, institution, office, society, or other
5body corporate and politic in state or local government created or authorized to be
6created by the constitution or any law.
AB966-ASA2,8,97 (c) “Home address” includes a judicial officer's permanent residence and any
8secondary residences affirmatively identified by the judicial officer. “ Home address”
9does not include a judicial officer's work address.
AB966-ASA2,8,1010 (d) “Immediate family” includes any of the following:
AB966-ASA2,8,1111 1. A judicial officer's spouse.
AB966-ASA2,8,1412 2. A minor child of the judicial officer or of the judicial officer's spouse, including
13a foster child, or an adult child of the judicial officer or of the judicial officer's spouse
14whose permanent residence is with the judicial officer.
AB966-ASA2,8,1515 3. A parent of the judicial officer or the judicial officer's spouse.
AB966-ASA2,8,1616 4. Any other person who resides at the judicial officer's residence.
AB966-ASA2,8,2017 (e) “Judicial officer” means a person who currently is or who formerly was a
18supreme court justice, court of appeals judge, circuit court judge, municipal judge,
19tribal judge, temporary or permanent reserve judge, or circuit, supplemental, or
20municipal court commissioner.
AB966-ASA2,8,2321 (f) “Permanent residence” means the place where a person's habitation is fixed,
22without any present intent to move, and to which, when absent, the person intends
23to return.
AB966-ASA2,9,3
1(g) “Personal information” means any of the following with regard to a judicial
2officer or any immediate family member of a judicial officer, but does not include
3information regarding employment with a government agency:
AB966-ASA2,9,44 1. A home address.
AB966-ASA2,9,55 2. A home or personal mobile telephone number.
AB966-ASA2,9,66 3. A personal email address.
AB966-ASA2,9,87 4. A social security number, driver's license number, federal tax identification
8number, or state tax identification number.
AB966-ASA2,9,109 5. Except as required under ch. 11, a bank account or credit or debit card
10information.
AB966-ASA2,9,1311 6. A license plate number or other unique identifiers of a vehicle owned, leased,
12or regularly used by a judicial officer or an immediate family member of a judicial
13officer.
AB966-ASA2,9,1514 7. The identification of children under the age of 18 of a judicial officer or an
15immediate family member of a judicial officer.
AB966-ASA2,9,1616 8. The full date of birth.
AB966-ASA2,9,1717 9. Marital status.
AB966-ASA2,9,2318 (h) “Publicly available content” means any written, printed, or electronic
19document or record that provides information or that serves as a document or record
20maintained, controlled, or in the possession of a government agency that may be
21obtained by any person or entity, from the Internet, from the government agency
22upon request either free of charge or for a fee, or in response to a public records
23request under ch. 19.
AB966-ASA2,9,2524 (i) “Publicly post or display” means to intentionally communicate or otherwise
25make available to the general public.
AB966-ASA2,10,3
1(j) “Transfer” means to sell, license, trade, or exchange for consideration the
2personal information of a judicial officer or a judicial officer's immediate family
3member.
AB966-ASA2,10,84 (k) “Written request” means written notice signed by a judicial officer or a
5representative of the judicial officer's employer requesting a government agency,
6business, association, or other person to refrain from publicly posting or displaying
7publicly available content that includes the personal information of the judicial
8officer or judicial officer's immediate family.
AB966-ASA2,10,21 9(2) Publicly posting or displaying a judicial officer's personal information
10by a government agency.
(a) A government agency may not publicly post or display
11publicly available content that includes a judicial officer's personal information,
12provided that the government agency has received a written request in accordance
13with sub. (4) that it refrain from disclosing the judicial officer's personal information.
14After a government agency has received a written request, that agency shall remove
15the judicial officer's personal information from publicly available content within 10
16business days. After the government agency has removed the judicial officer's
17personal information from publicly available content, the agency may not publicly
18post or display the information, and the judicial officer's personal information shall
19be exempt from inspection and copying under s. 19.35 unless the government agency
20has received consent as provided under sub. (4) (e) to make the personal information
21available to the public.
AB966-ASA2,10,2422 (b) Nothing in this subsection prohibits a government agency from providing
23access to records containing the personal information of a judicial officer to a 3rd
24party if the 3rd party meets any of the following criteria:
AB966-ASA2,10,2525 1. Possesses a signed consent document, as provided under sub. (4) (e).
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12. Is subject to the requirements of 15 USC 6801, et seq.
AB966-ASA2,11,22 3. Executes a confidentiality agreement with the government agency.
AB966-ASA2,11,6 3(3) Data brokers and other persons and businesses. (a) No data broker may
4knowingly sell, license, trade, purchase, or otherwise make available for
5consideration the personal information of a judicial officer or a judicial officer's
6immediate family.
AB966-ASA2,11,117 (b) 1. No person, business, or association may publicly post or display on the
8Internet publicly available content that includes the personal information of a
9judicial officer or the judicial officer's immediate family, provided that the judicial
10officer has made a written request to the person, business, or association that it
11refrain from disclosing or acquiring the personal information.
AB966-ASA2,11,1212 2. Subdivision 1. does not apply to any of the following:
AB966-ASA2,11,1513 a. Personal information that the judicial officer or an immediate family
14member of the judicial officer voluntarily publishes on the Internet after the effective
15date of this subd. 2. a. .... [LRB inserts date].
AB966-ASA2,11,1716 b. Personal information lawfully received from a state or federal government
17source, including from an employee or agent of the state or federal government.
AB966-ASA2,11,2518 (c) 1. After a person, business, or association has received a written request
19from a judicial officer to protect the privacy of the personal information of the judicial
20officer and the judicial officer's immediate family, the person, business, or
21association shall remove from the Internet, within 10 days, the personal information
22identified in the request; ensure that the information is not made available on any
23website or subsidiary website controlled by that person, business, or association; and
24identify any other instances of the identified information that should also be
25removed.
AB966-ASA2,12,3
12. After receiving a judicial officer's written request, no person, business, or
2association may transfer the judicial officer's personal information to any other
3person, business, or association through any medium, except as follows:
AB966-ASA2,12,74 a. The person, business, or association may transfer personal information that
5the judicial officer or an immediate family member of the judicial officer voluntarily
6publishes on the Internet after the effective date of this subd. 2. a. .... [LRB inserts
7date].
AB966-ASA2,12,108 b. The person, business, or association may transfer the judicial officer's
9personal information at the request of the judicial officer if the transfer is necessary
10to effectuate a request to the person, business, or association from the judicial officer.
AB966-ASA2,12,15 11(4) Procedure for completing a written request for protection of personal
12information.
(a) No government agency, person, business, or association may be
13found to have violated any provision of this section if the judicial officer fails to
14submit a written request calling for the protection of the personal information of the
15judicial officer or the judicial officer's immediate family.
AB966-ASA2,12,1716 (b) 1. A written request under this subsection is valid if the request meets the
17requirements of par. (d) and if the judicial officer does any of the following:
AB966-ASA2,12,1918 a. Sends the written request directly to a government agency, person, business,
19or association.
AB966-ASA2,12,2220 b. If the director of state courts has a policy and procedure for a judicial officer
21to file the written request with the director of state court's office to notify government
22agencies, the judicial officer sends the written request to the director of state courts.
AB966-ASA2,13,423 2. In each quarter of a calendar year, the director of state courts shall provide
24to the appropriate officer with ultimate supervisory authority for a government
25agency a list of all judicial officers who have submitted a written request under subd.

11. b. The officer shall promptly provide a copy of the list to the government agencies
2under his or her supervision. Receipt of the written request list compiled by the
3director of state courts office by a government agency shall constitute a written
4request to that agency for purposes of this subsection.
AB966-ASA2,13,95 (c) A representative from the judicial officer's employer may submit a written
6request on the judicial officer's behalf, provided that the judicial officer has given
7written consent to the representative and provided that the representative agrees
8to furnish a copy of that consent when the written request is made. The
9representative shall submit the written request as provided under par. (b).
AB966-ASA2,13,1910 (d) A judicial officer's written request shall be made on a form prescribed by the
11director of state courts and shall specify what personal information shall be
12maintained as private. If a judicial officer wishes to identify a secondary residence
13as a home address, the designation shall be made in the written request. A judicial
14officer's written request shall disclose the identity of the officer's immediate family
15and indicate that the personal information of these family members shall also be
16excluded to the extent that it could reasonably be expected to reveal personal
17information of the judicial officer. Any person receiving a written request form
18submitted by or on behalf of a judicial officer under this paragraph shall treat the
19submission as confidential.
AB966-ASA2,13,2120 (e) 1. A judicial officer's written request is valid for 10 years or until the judicial
21officer's death, whichever occurs first.
AB966-ASA2,13,2422 2. Notwithstanding a judicial officer's written request, a government agency,
23person, business, or association may release personal information otherwise subject
24to the written request under any of the following circumstances:
AB966-ASA2,13,2525 a. As required in response to a court order.
AB966-ASA2,14,3
1b. If a judicial officer or immediate family member of the judicial officer
2consents to the release of his or her own personal information as provided under
3subd. 3.
AB966-ASA2,14,64 c. If the judicial officer provides the government agency, person, business, or
5association with consent to release the personal information as provided under subd.
63.
AB966-ASA2,14,117 3. A judicial officer or immediate family member of the judicial officer may
8consent to release personal information otherwise protected by a judicial officer's
9written request if the consent is made in writing on a form prescribed by the director
10of state courts. An immediate family member of the judicial officer may only consent
11to the release of his or her own personal information.
AB966-ASA2,14,17 12(5) (a) A judicial officer whose personal information is made public as a result
13of a violation of this section may bring an action seeking injunctive or declaratory
14relief in any court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding s. 814.04, if the court
15grants injunctive or declaratory relief, the governmental agency, business,
16association, data broker, or other person responsible for the violation shall be
17required to pay the judicial officer's costs and reasonable attorney fees.
AB966-ASA2,14,2118 (b) Provided that an employee of a government agency has complied with the
19conditions set forth in sub. (2), it is not a violation of this section if an employee of
20a government agency publishes personal information, in good faith, on the website
21of the government agency in the ordinary course of carrying out public functions.
AB966-ASA2,15,422 (c) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly publicly post or display on the
23Internet the personal information of a judicial officer or of the judicial officer's
24immediate family if the person intends the public posting or display of the personal
25information to create or increase a threat to the health and safety of the judicial

1officer or the judicial officer's immediate family and, under the circumstances, bodily
2injury or death of the judicial officer or a member of the judicial officer's immediate
3family is a natural and probable consequence of the posting or display. A person who
4violates this paragraph is guilty of a Class G felony.
AB966-ASA2,15,6 5(6) This section shall be construed broadly to favor the protection of the
6personal information of judicial officers and the immediate family of judicial officers.
AB966-ASA2,8 7Section 8 . Effective date.
AB966-ASA2,15,98 (1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 13th month beginning after
9publication.
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