Vehicles: confidential home addresses: citations.

(1) Existing law makes confidential the home address of any of a list of state officers and employees that appear in the Department of Motor Vehicles records, if an officer or employee requests that his or her address be kept confidential, with certain exemptions for information available to specified governmental agencies. Existing law requires the department to inform a person who requests a confidential home address what agency the individual whose address was requested is employed by or the court at which the judge or court commissioner presides. This bill would require a person who requests the confidentiality of his or her home address to provide the department with a current employment address for purposes of processing the service and collection of a traffic, parking, or toll road violation. The bill would require that the applicable statutory time periods for processing the service and collection of traffic, parking, or toll road violations be tolled until the department provides the law enforcement agency, governmental agency, or issuing agency with the person's current employment address. The bill would require a person who has requested the confidentiality of his or her home address to notify the department of any change in his or her employment address within 10 days. The bill would require the department to update the form to request confidentiality of the person's home address to include the requirement that the applicant or an existing enrollee provide a current employment address and would also require the department to distribute and make available copies of the updated form to the human resources office of each agency that employs any of the eligible persons listed pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require the human resources office of an applicant or existing enrollee to make the updated form available to new and current employees and to require, on and after January 1, 2011, that all new applicants and existing enrollees complete and return the form with their current employment address to their human resources office. The bill would also require the human resources office to forward all new application forms to the Confidential Records Unit (CRU) of the department upon receipt from the applicant and forward the updated forms of existing enrollees to the CRU of the department by April 1, 2012. By creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the registered owner or lessee has been mailed a notice of delinquent parking violation or a failure to pay a traffic citation and the processing agency has filed or electronically transmitted to the department an itemization of the unpaid parking or traffic citation penalty, including the administrative fee, and the owner or lessee has not paid the penalty and administrative fee. This bill would require the department to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the person who has been served pursuant to the above-described provision has been mailed a notice of delinquent parking violation or a failure to pay a traffic citation and the processing agency has filed or electronically transmitted to the department an itemization of the unpaid parking or traffic citation penalty, including the administrative fee, and the owner or lessee has not paid the penalty and administrative fee. (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.