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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1533
personal information; confidentiality; judge's families
Purpose
Allows a family member of a justice, judge, commissioner or hearing officer (judicial
officer) with the same full name as the judicial officer to request that the court prohibit the general
public from accessing specified personal information.
Background
An eligible person may request that the general public be prohibited from accessing
identifying information relating to the eligible person in records that are maintained by the county
recorder, county assessor, county treasurer or the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT).
Identifying information may include an entire record or specified information contained in a
record. An eligible person may request the prohibition by filing an affidavit that states information
as prescribed by statute with the superior court in the county that the eligible person resides. The
affidavit and application form is developed by the Administrative Office of the Courts in
agreement with an association of counties, an organization of peace officers and ADOT (A.R.S.
§§ 11-483 and 11-484). An eligible person includes: 1) a health professional; 2) an election officer;
3) a current and former public official; 4) a peace officer and their spouse; 5) a spouse or minor
child of a deceased peace officer; 6) a justice; 7) a judge; 8) a commissioner; 9) a hearing officer;
10) a public defender; 11) a prosecutor; 12) a code enforcement officer; 13) an adult or juvenile
corrections officer; or 14) additional public safety personnel, state agency personnel and crime
victims as outlined by statute (A.R.S. §§ 11-483; 11-484; 28-454; 39-123; and 39-124).
A person commits a class 5 felony if the person knowingly makes the personal information
of certain eligible persons available on the internet and if: 1) the dissemination of the personal
information poses an imminent and serious threat to the safety of the eligible person or the eligible
person's family; and 2) the threat is reasonably apparent to the person making the information
available on the internet to be serious and imminent (A.R.S. § 13-2401).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
Provisions
1. Adds a family member with the same full name as a judicial officer to the definition of an
eligible person who may request that the general public be prohibited from accessing the
person's identifying information, including:
a) specified information in the person's voting record; or
b) records maintained by ADOT, the county recorder, county assessor and county treasurer. FACT SHEET
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2. Prohibits a person from knowingly making the personal information of a family member with
the same full name as a judicial officer available on the internet if the dissemination of the
personal information poses an imminent and serious threat to the family member.
3. Adds, to the definition of personal information, the home address, home telephone number,
pager number, personal photograph, directions to the person's home or photographs of the
person's home or vehicle, for a person who is a family member of a judicial officer with the
same full name as the judicial officer.
4. Includes a hearing officer's spouse, child or parent and any other adult who lives in the same
residence as the health professional to the definition of immediate family.
5. Makes technical changes.
6. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 7, 2025
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