Elections: Secretary of State.

(1) Existing law requires that an application for voter registration information available pursuant to law and maintained by the Secretary of State or by the elections official of any county be made pursuant to specified requirements. Existing law requires a person or entity who has received voter registration information pursuant to these provisions, following discovery or notification of a breach in the security of the storage of the information, to disclose the breach in security to the Secretary of State. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to adopt regulations describing best practices for storage and security of voter registration information received by an applicant. This bill would authorize the Secretary of State to require an applicant to take a training course regarding data security as a condition for the receipt of voter registration information if that course is made available to the applicant at no cost to the applicant. (2) Existing law authorizes the Secretary of State to require elections officers to make reports concerning elections in their jurisdictions. This bill would clarify that this reporting requirement may include information about the identity of, and contact information for, the elections official who is responsible for conducting elections in the jurisdiction.