Vehicles: confidential home address.

(1) Existing law makes confidential the home addresses of specified governmental officers and employees and certain other persons that appear in the Department of Motor Vehicles records, if the officer, employee, or other person requests that his or her address be kept confidential, with certain exemptions for information available to specified governmental agencies. 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 also 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 person requesting confidentiality 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 a new employee requesting confidentiality or an employee who has an existing confidentiality application on file with the department to make the updated form available to new and current employees and to require, on and after January 1, 2014, that all new employees requesting confidentiality or employees who have an existing application on file with the department 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 new employee and forward the completed updated forms of existing employees who have an application on file with the department to the CRU of the department by April 1, 2015. This bill would require the department to update the record of persons subject to these provisions as his or her vehicle registration becomes due. By creating new crimes, the bill would impose 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.