NOTE:  This bill has been prepared for the signature of the appropriate legislative
officers and the Governor.  To determine whether the Governor has signed the bill
or taken other action on it, please consult the legislative status sheet, the legislative
      history, or the Session Laws.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 09-1316
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Solano, King S., Acree, Baumgardner,
      Benefield, Frangas, Gardner B., Kerr J., Labuda, Primavera, Scanlan,
      Schafer S., Todd, Vigil, Carroll T.;
      also SENATOR(S) Shaffer B., Heath, Kester, King K., Kopp, Morse,
      Newell, Penry, Tochtrop, Williams.
      
      
      Concerning public dissemination of personal information of a
           person working in the criminal justice system.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  18-9-313 (1) and (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, are
      amended to read:
      
           18-9-313.  Personal information on the internet - law
      enforcement official.  (1)  As used in this section:
      
           (a)  "Immediate family" means a peace officer's law enforcement
      official's spouse, child, or parent or any other blood relative who lives in
      the same residence as the peace officer law enforcement official.
      
           (a.5)  "Law enforcement official" means a peace officer as
      described in section 16-2.5-101, C.R.S., a judge as defined by section
      18-8-615, (3), or a prosecutor.
      
           (b)  "Personal information" means a peace officer's law
      enforcement official's home address, home telephone number,
      personal mobile telephone number, pager number, personal e-mail
      address, personal photograph, directions to the peace officer's law
      enforcement official's home, or photographs of the peace officer's law
      enforcement official's or the official's immediate family member's
      home or vehicle.
      
           (2)  It is unlawful for a person to knowingly to make available on
      the internet personal information about a peace officer as described in
      section 16-2.5-101, C.R.S., law enforcement official or the official's
      immediate family member, if the dissemination of the personal
      information poses an imminent and serious threat to the peace officer's law
      enforcement official's safety or the safety of the peace officer's law
      enforcement official's immediate family and the person making the
      information available on the internet knows or reasonably should know of
      the imminent and serious threat.
      
           SECTION 2.  Safety clause.  The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
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      Terrance D. Carroll                Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                          Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO