Toll bridges, lanes, and highways: electronic toll collection mechanisms: disclosure of personal information.

Existing law authorizes development and implementation of various electronic bridge and highway toll collection mechanisms. This bill would prohibit a transportation agency, as defined, from selling or providing personally identifiable information of a person obtained pursuant to the person's participation in an electronic toll collection system or use of a toll facility that uses an electric toll collection system, subject to specified exceptions. The bill would require a transportation agency that uses an electric toll collection system to establish a privacy policy regarding personally identifiable information in that regard and to provide the policy to subscribers and post the policy on its Internet Web site. The bill would allow a transportation agency to store certain personally identifiable information of a person and would, on and after July 1, 2011, require it to discard other information within a designated time period. The bill would prescribe the circumstances in which a transportation agency may make personally identifiable information available to a law enforcement agency. The bill would authorize a person whose personally identifiable information has been sold or provided in violation of the bill to bring specified actions for recovery of damages, costs, and attorney's fees. The bill would authorize a transportation agency to impose an administrative fee to implement these provisions, as specified. By imposing new duties on local transportation agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.