Pest control licenses: personal information: confidentiality.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details about what happens if someone requests personal information that is now confidential.

Protecting Pest Control Worker Privacy

AB-2086 makes personal information of pest control workers confidential and not available under the California Public Records Act, while allowing them to use a post office box instead of their home address.

What This Bill Does

• Makes personal information of pest control applicants, licensees, and certificate holders confidential and exempt from the California Public Records Act.
• Allows the Department of Pesticide Regulation to disclose an individual's address of record but requires them to accept a post office box or other alternate address if provided by the person.

Who It Names or Affects

• Pest control applicants, licensees, and certificate holders in California.
• The Department of Pesticide Regulation which administers pest control licensing.

Terms To Know

Public Records Act

A law that makes public records available for inspection by the public unless they are exempt from disclosure.

Address of record

The official address provided to a government agency, which can be used for communication and other purposes.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens if someone requests personal information that is now confidential.
• It does not cover all types of personal information or all professions beyond pest control workers.
• The bill's effectiveness depends on the Department of Pesticide Regulation implementing it correctly.

Official Summary Text

AB 2086, as introduced, Ellis.
Pest control licenses: personal information: confidentiality.
Existing law, added by the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1991, creates the Department of Pesticide Regulation, which is administered by the Director of Pesticide Regulation. Existing law authorizes the director to, among other things, adopt regulations for the issuance and renewal of licenses and certificates for pest control operations. The California Public Records Act requires a public agency, defined to mean a state or local agency, to make its public records available for public inspection and to make copies available upon request and payment of a fee, unless the public records are exempt from disclosure.
This bill would, in order to protect the privacy of applicants, licensees, and certificate holders, prohibit personal information, as defined, collected pursuant to these provisions from being considered a public record, as
specified, and would exempt that personal information from the California Public Records Act, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to disclose an applicant, licensee, or certificate holder’s address of record, except the bill would require the department to allow an applicant, licensee, or certificate holder to provide a post office box number or other alternate address, instead of a home address, as the address of record.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Current Bill Text

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