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Florida Statutes section 119.071 lists protected categories and different procedures. This reference covers all 26 category paragraphs, plus seven procedure rows. Each office decides on your request.
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| Category label | Statutory citation | Statutory text | Duration | Cross-referenced statutory definitions | Source and check date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law enforcement and specified agency personnel | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.a. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of active or former sworn law enforcement personnel or of active or former civilian personnel employed by a law enforcement agency, including correctional and correctional probation officers, personnel of the Department of Children and Families whose duties include the investigation of abuse, neglect, exploitation, fraud, theft, or other criminal activities, personnel of the Department of Health whose duties are to support the investigation of child abuse or neglect, and personnel of the Department of Revenue or local governments whose responsibilities include revenue collection and enforcement or child support enforcement | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Financial Services investigators | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.b. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former nonsworn investigative personnel of the Department of Financial Services whose duties include the investigation of fraud, theft, workers’ compensation coverage requirements and compliance, other related criminal activities, or state regulatory requirement violations | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Financial Regulation investigators | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.c. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former nonsworn investigative personnel of the Office of Financial Regulation’s Bureau of Financial Investigations whose duties include the investigation of fraud, theft, other related criminal activities, or state regulatory requirement violations | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Certified firefighters | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.d. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former firefighters certified in compliance with s. 633.408 | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | 633.408. The division shall issue a firefighter certificate of compliance to an individual who does all of the following 633.412. Firefighter certification qualifications are separately prescribed in this section. Read the linked current statute. Source 1 · Source 2 | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Judges and judicial assistants | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.e. (2026) | The home addresses, dates of birth, and telephone numbers of current or former justices of the Supreme Court, district court of appeal judges, circuit court judges, and county court judges and current judicial assistants | October 2, 2028, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| State attorneys and prosecutors | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.f. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former state attorneys, assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or assistant statewide prosecutors | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Magistrates and specified hearing officers | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.g. (2026) | The home addresses, dates of birth, and telephone numbers of general magistrates, special magistrates, judges of compensation claims, administrative law judges of the Division of Administrative Hearings, and child support enforcement hearing officers | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Local government personnel managers | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.h. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former human resource, labor relations, or employee relations directors, assistant directors, managers, or assistant managers of any local government agency or water management district whose duties include hiring and firing employees, labor contract negotiation, administration, or other personnel-related duties | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Code enforcement officers | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.i. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former code enforcement officers | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Guardians ad litem | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.j. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, places of employment, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former guardians ad litem, as defined in s. 39.01 | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | 39.01. “Guardian ad litem” means a person or an entity that is a fiduciary appointed by the court to represent a child Source | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Juvenile Justice personnel | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.k. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former juvenile probation officers, juvenile probation supervisors, detention superintendents, assistant detention superintendents, juvenile justice detention officers I and II, juvenile justice detention officer supervisors, juvenile justice residential officers, juvenile justice residential officer supervisors I and II, juvenile justice counselors, juvenile justice counselor supervisors, human services counselor administrators, senior human services counselor administrators, rehabilitation therapists, and social services counselors of the Department of Juvenile Justice | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Public defenders and conflict counsel | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.l. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former public defenders, assistant public defenders, criminal conflict and civil regional counsel, and assistant criminal conflict and civil regional counsel | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Business and Professional Regulation investigators | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.m. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former investigators or inspectors of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| County tax collectors | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.n. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, and dates of birth of county tax collectors | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Specified Department of Health personnel | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.o. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former personnel of the Department of Health whose duties include, or result in, the determination or adjudication of eligibility for social security disability benefits, the investigation or prosecution of complaints filed against health care practitioners, or the inspection of health care practitioners or health care facilities licensed by the Department of Health | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Impaired practitioner consultants | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.p. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former impaired practitioner consultants who are retained by an agency or current or former employees of an impaired practitioner consultant whose duties result in a determination of a person’s skill and safety to practice a licensed profession | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Certified emergency medical technicians and paramedics | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.q. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former emergency medical technicians or paramedics certified under chapter 401 | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Inspector general and internal audit personnel | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.r. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former personnel employed in an agency’s office of inspector general or internal audit department whose duties include auditing or investigating waste, fraud, abuse, theft, exploitation, or other activities that could lead to criminal prosecution or administrative discipline | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Specified addiction treatment facility personnel | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.s. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former directors, managers, supervisors, nurses, and clinical employees of an addiction treatment facility | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | 397.311. Licensed service components include a comprehensive continuum of accessible and quality substance abuse prevention, intervention, and clinical treatment services 397.401. It is unlawful for any person or agency to act as a substance abuse service provider unless it is licensed or exempt from licensure under this chapter. Source 1 · Source 2 | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Child advocacy centers and Child Protection Teams | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.t. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former directors, managers, supervisors, and clinical employees of a child advocacy center that meets the standards of s. 39.3035 (2) and fulfills the screening requirement of s. 39.3035 (3), and the members of a Child Protection Team as described in s. 39.303 whose duties include supporting the investigation of child abuse or sexual abuse, child abandonment, child neglect, and child exploitation or to provide services as part of a multidisciplinary case review team | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | 39.303. The Children’s Medical Services Program in the Department of Health shall develop, maintain, and coordinate the services of one or more multidisciplinary Child Protection Teams 39.3035. Provide assurance that child advocacy center employees and volunteers at the center are trained and screened in accordance with s. Source 1 · Source 2 | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Domestic violence center staff and advocates | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.u. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, places of employment, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former staff and domestic violence advocates, as defined in s. 90.5036 (1)(b), of domestic violence centers certified by the Department of Children and Families under chapter 39 | No sunset date stated in this sub-subparagraph. | 90.5036. A “domestic violence advocate” means any employee or volunteer who has 30 hours of training in assisting victims of domestic violence Source | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Agriculture and Consumer Services inspectors | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.v. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former inspectors or investigators of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services | October 2, 2028, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| County and city attorneys | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.w. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current county attorneys, assistant county attorneys, deputy county attorneys, city attorneys, assistant city attorneys, and deputy city attorneys | October 2, 2029, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Gaming Control Commission commissioners | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.x. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former commissioners of the Florida Gaming Control Commission | October 2, 2029, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Circuit court clerks and personnel | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.y. (2026) | The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current clerks of the circuit court, deputy clerks of the circuit court, and clerk of the circuit court personnel | October 2, 2029, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Current congressional members and public officers | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)2.z. (2026) | As used in this sub-subparagraph, the term: (A) “Congressional member” means a person who is elected to serve as a member of the United States House of Representatives or is elected or appointed to serve as a member of the United States Senate. (B) “Partial home address” means the dwelling location at which an individual resides and includes the physical address, mailing address, street address, parcel identification number, plot identification number, legal property description, neighborhood name and lot number, GPS coordinates, and any other descriptive property information that may reveal the partial home address, except for the city and zip code. (C) “Public officer” means a person who holds one of the following offices: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Chief Financial Officer, Attorney General, Agriculture Commissioner, state representative, state senator, property appraiser, supervisor of elections, school superintendent, school board member, mayor, city commissioner, or county commissioner. (II) The following information is exempt from s. 119.07 (1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution: (A) The partial home addresses of a current congressional member or public officer and his or her spouse or adult child. (B) The telephone numbers of a current congressional member or public officer and his or her spouse or adult child. (C) The name, home addresses, telephone numbers, and date of birth of a minor child of a current congressional member or public officer and the name and location of the school or day care facility attended by the minor child. (III) This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2030, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature. | October 2, 2030, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Procedure 3.a. | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)3.a. (2026) | An agency that is the custodian of the information specified in subparagraph 2. and that is not the employer of the officer, employee, justice, judge, or other person specified in subparagraph 2. must maintain the exempt status of that information only if the officer, employee, justice, judge, other person, or employing agency of the designated employee submits a written and notarized request for maintenance of the exemption to the custodial agency. The request must state under oath the statutory basis for the individual’s exemption request and confirm the individual’s status as a party eligible for exempt status. b. An agency that is the custodian of information specified in sub-subparagraph 2.z. and that is not the employer of the congressional member, public officer, or other person specified in sub-subparagraph 2.z. must maintain the exempt status of that information only if an individual requests the maintenance of an exemption pursuant to sub-subparagraph 2.z. on the basis of eligibility as a current congressional member or public officer and his or her spouse or child submits, as part of the written and notarized request required by sub-subparagraph a., the date of the congressional member’s or public officer’s election or appointment to public office, the date on which that office is next subject to election, and, if applicable, the date on which the current congressional member’s or public officer’s minor child reaches the age of majority. The custodian must maintain an exemption granted pursuant to sub-subparagraph 2.z. until the qualifying conditions for the exemption no longer apply to the person subject to the exemption. | Read the full statutory text. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Procedure 4.a. | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)4.a. (2026) | A county property appraiser, as defined in s. 192.001 (3), or a county tax collector, as defined in s. 192.001 (4), who receives a written and notarized request for maintenance of the exemption pursuant to subparagraph 3. must comply by removing the name of the individual with exempt status and the instrument number or Official Records book and page number identifying the property with the exempt status from all publicly available records maintained by the property appraiser or tax collector. For written requests received on or before July 1, 2021, a county property appraiser or county tax collector must comply with this sub-subparagraph by October 1, 2021. A county property appraiser or county tax collector may not remove the street address, legal description, or other information identifying real property within the agency’s records so long as a name or personal information otherwise exempt from inspection and copying pursuant to this section is not associated with the property or otherwise displayed in the public records of the agency. b. Any information restricted from public display, inspection, or copying under sub-subparagraph a. must be provided to the individual whose information was removed. | Read the full statutory text. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Procedure 5. | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)5. (2026) | An officer, an employee, a justice, a judge, or other person specified in subparagraph 2. may submit a written request for the release of his or her exempt information to the custodial agency. The written request must be notarized and must specify the information to be released and the party authorized to receive the information. Upon receipt of the written request, the custodial agency must release the specified information to the party authorized to receive such information. | Read the full statutory text. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Procedure 6. | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)6. (2026) | The exemptions in this paragraph apply to information held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of the exemption. | Read the full statutory text. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Procedure 7. | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)7. (2026) | Information made exempt under this paragraph may be disclosed pursuant to s. 28.2221 to a title insurer authorized pursuant to s. 624.401 and its affiliates as defined in s. 624.10 ; a title insurance agent or title insurance agency as defined in s. 626.841 (1) or (2), respectively; or an attorney duly admitted to practice law in this state and in good standing with The Florida Bar. | Read the full statutory text. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Procedure 8. | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)8. (2026) | The exempt status of a home address contained in the Official Records is maintained only during the period when a protected party resides at the dwelling location. Upon conveyance of real property after October 1, 2021, and when such real property no longer constitutes a protected party’s home address as defined in sub-subparagraph 1.a., the protected party must submit a written request to release the removed information to the county recorder. The written request to release the removed information must be notarized, must confirm that a protected party’s request for release is pursuant to a conveyance of his or her dwelling location, and must specify the Official Records book and page, instrument number, or clerk’s file number for each document containing the information to be released. | Read the full statutory text. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Procedure 9. | Fla. Stat. § 119.071(4)(d)9. (2026) | Upon the death of a protected party as verified by a certified copy of a death certificate or court order, any party can request the county recorder to release a protected decedent’s removed information unless there is a related request on file with the county recorder for continued removal of the decedent’s information or unless such removal is otherwise prohibited by statute or by court order. The written request to release the removed information upon the death of a protected party must attach the certified copy of a death certificate or court order and must be notarized, must confirm the request for release is due to the death of a protected party, and must specify the Official Records book and page number, instrument number, or clerk’s file number for each document containing the information to be released. A fee may not be charged for the release of any document pursuant to such request. | Read the full statutory text. | Not established in the cited sources | Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 119.071(4)(d) Checked 2026-10-24 |
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The DOR directory identifies local property-tax offices. A deed record is held separately from an appraiser record.
Section 119.071(4)(d)3 requires a written, notarized request to a non-employer custodian. Each request must identify its statutory basis and confirm status.
Property appraisers, tax collectors and recorders hold different records. The statute preserves some property identifiers when they are separated from exempt personal information.
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