Department of Motor Vehicles: public records: addresses.

(1) Existing law makes confidential the home address of a list of local, state, and federal officers or employees, and the spouses or children of those officers or employees, that appears in a record of the Department of Motor Vehicles, if the included person requests it to be kept confidential, with certain exemptions for information available to specified governmental agencies and certain attorneys. A violation of the confidentiality requirement is a crime. This bill would add to that list a veterinarian employed by a zoo, a public animal control agency shelter, or a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shelter or a humane society shelter contracting with a local public agency for animal care or protection services. The bill also would add constitutional officers of the State Board of Equalization and specified local government code enforcement officers to that list. The bill, by adding persons to be covered by those confidentiality requirements, would expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. (2) 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.