Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 381.95 (2025)

Medical facility information maintained for terrorism response purposes; confidentiality.

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381.95 Medical facility information maintained for terrorism response purposes; confidentiality.
(1) Any information identifying or describing the name, location, pharmaceutical cache, contents, capacity, equipment, physical features, or capabilities of individual medical facilities, storage facilities, or laboratories established, maintained, or regulated by the Department of Health as part of the state’s plan to defend against an act of terrorism as defined in s. 775.30 is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This exemption is remedial in nature, and it is the intent of the Legislature that this exemption apply to information held by the Department of Health before, on, or after the effective date of this section.
(2) Information made exempt by this section may be disclosed by the custodial agency to another state or federal agency in order to prevent, detect, guard against, respond to, investigate, or manage the consequences of any attempted or actual act of terrorism, or to prosecute those responsible for such attempts or acts.
(3) The certification by the Governor of the sufficiency of any location, pharmaceutical cache, contents, capacity, equipment, physical features, or capabilities of individual medical facilities, storage facilities, or laboratories established, maintained, or regulated by the Department of Health as part of the state’s plan to defend against an act of terrorism is a public record.
History.s. 1, ch. 2001-363; s. 1, ch. 2006-108; s. 9, ch. 2017-37.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2013–2013 · leading case: Marino v. Univ. of Florida, 107 So. 3d 1231 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013).
Marino v. Univ. of Florida, 107 So. 3d 1231 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013). · cites it 2× “In the wake *1234 of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the legislature enacted section 381.95, Florida Statutes, which exempts the locations of “medical facilities, storage facilities, or laboratories established, maintained, or regulated by the Department of Health as part of…”
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