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Title XXX
SOCIAL WELFARE

Chapter 413
EMPLOYMENT AND RELATED SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

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F.S. 413.012

413.012 Confidential records disclosure prohibited; exemptions.—

(1) All records furnished to the Division of Blind Services in connection with state or local vocational rehabilitation programs and containing information as to personal facts about applicants or clients given or made available to the state or local vocational rehabilitation agency or its representatives or employees in the course of the administration of the program, including lists of names and addresses and records of evaluations of clients, are confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1).

(2) It is unlawful for any person to disclose, authorize the disclosure, solicit, receive, or make use of any list of names and addresses or any record containing any information set forth in subsection (1) and maintained in the division. The prohibition provided for in this subsection shall not apply to the use of such information for purposes directly connected with the administration of the vocational rehabilitation program or with the monthly dispatch to the Division of Motorist Services of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles of the name in full, place and date of birth, sex, social security number, and resident address of individuals with central visual acuity 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting glasses, or a disqualifying field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter or visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees. When requested in writing by an applicant or client, or her or his representative, the Division of Blind Services shall release confidential information to the applicant or client or her or his representative.

(3) Any person who violates a provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History.—s. 1, ch. 65-507; ss. 19, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 71-41; s. 356, ch. 71-136; s. 289, ch. 77-147; s. 3, ch. 77-259; s. 173, ch. 79-400; s. 2, ch. 91-12; s. 77, ch. 91-224; s. 264, ch. 96-406; s. 1029, ch. 97-103; s. 29, ch. 2011-66.

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Amendments to 413.012

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 413.012

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 413.012

Total Results: 11

Forsberg v. HOUSING AUTH. OF CITY OF MIAMI B.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1984-08-30

Citation: 455 So. 2d 373, 10 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2511

Snippet: 402.32(4)(h) (school health agency records); § 413.012 (Blind Services vocational rehabilitation records);

Timmins v. Firestone

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1973-09-07

Citation: 283 So. 2d 63

Snippet: is four years. Faulk v. Allen, 1943, 152 Fla. 413, 12 So.2d 109. While usually an affirmative defense

Buchanan v. Miami Herald Publishing Company

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1969-09-24

Citation: 230 So. 2d 9

Snippet: 109 So. 623 (1926); Faulk v. Allen, 152 Fla. 413, 12 So.2d 109 (1943); Glass v. Parrish, 51 So.2d 717

Buchanan v. Miami Herald Publishing Company

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1968-01-30

Citation: 206 So. 2d 465

Snippet: upon the case of Faulk v. Allen, 1943, 152 Fla. 413, 12 So.2d 109, but confesses that he molded the second

Morris v. Rabara

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1962-09-21

Citation: 145 So. 2d 265

Snippet: Sherman v. Thomas, 1937, 128 Fla. 231, 174 So. 413; 12 Am.Jur. 423, Contempt, § 48. The motion of the

Lingard v. Kiraly

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1959-04-16

Citation: 110 So. 2d 715

Snippet: 276, 177 So. 726; Faulk v. *717 Allen, 152 Fla. 413, 12 So.2d 109; Regan v. Davis, Fla.App. 1957, 97 So

Amos v. Gunn

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1922-04-07

Citation: 84 Fla. 285, 94 So. 615

Snippet: Sup. Ct. Rep. 496; Johnson v. Armour, 31 Fla. 413, 12 South. Rep. 842; Peninsular Casaulty Co. v. State

Pullman Co. v. Knott

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1915-06-26

Citation: 70 Fla. 9, 69 So. 703

Snippet: 54 South. Rep. 383; Johnson v. Armour, 31 Fla. 413, 12 South. Rep. 842. The character and extent of taxes

Afro-American Industrial & Benefit Ass'n of United States of America v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1911-01-15

Citation: 61 Fla. 85

Snippet: *93instant case. Johnson v. Armour & Co., 31 Fla., 413, 12 South. Rep., 842, will also be found instructive

Hathorne v. Panama Park Co.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1902-01-15

Citation: 44 Fla. 194

Snippet: Co. v. Ohio & M. Ry. Co., 142 U. S. 396, text 413, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 188. Glbn, O., and Hocker, G., concur

Johnson v. Atkins

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1902-01-15

Citation: 44 Fla. 185

Snippet: certain occupations (Johnson v. Armour, 31 Fla. 413, 12 South. Rep. 842) it did apply to license taxes