CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2003).
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...Dear Supervisor Dent: You ask substantially the following question: Is a witness's name and address on the back of an absentee ballot confidential and exempt from disclosure when the voter is a participant in the Address Confidentiality Program for Victims of Domestic Violence established pursuant to sections
741.401 -
741.409 , Florida Statutes? It is a general policy of this state that the records of the state and local government shall be open for inspection by any person....
...atures on the voter's certificate located on the back of the absentee ballot envelope. 5 Your inquiry, however, concerns a voter who is a participant in the Address Confidentiality Program for Victims of Domestic Violence, established under sections
741.401 -
741.409 , Florida Statutes. The program was established in 1998 and is administered by the Attorney General's Office. As stated in section
741.401 , Florida Statutes, The Legislature finds that persons attempting to escape from actual or threatened domestic violence frequently establish new addresses in order to prevent their assailants or probable assailants from finding them. The purpose of ss.
741.401 -
741.409 is to enable state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing the location of a victim of domestic violence, to enable interagency cooperation with the Attorney General in providing address co...
...Until such time, however, I am of the opinion that the witness's name and address on the back of an absentee ballot are not confidential and exempt from disclosure even though the voter is a participant in the Address Confidentiality Program for Victims of Domestic Violence established pursuant to sections 741.401 -741-409, Florida Statutes....
