SB 373: Board of Behavioral Sciences, Board of Psychology, and Veterinary Medical Board: licensees’ and registrants’ addresses.

Existing law creates the Department of Consumer Affairs, which is composed of various boards that license and regulate specified professions deemed to engage in activities that have potential impact upon the public health, safety, and welfare. Existing law requires the Board of Behavioral Sciences, Board of Psychology, and Veterinary Medical Board, among other boards, to post information regarding the status of every license issued by those boards on the boards internet website. Existing law exempts personal information of licensees from this disclosure requirement, including home telephone number, date of birth, and social security number.

This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit the Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Board of Psychology, and the Veterinary Medical Board from disclosing on the internet the full address of record of certain licensees and registrants, and would require those boards to disclose the city, state, county, and ZIP Code of the address of record of those licensees and registrants. The bill would require those boards to establish a process, as specified, for providing a licensees or registrants full address of record upon receipt of a request that is related to a court proceeding against or request for records from the licensee or registrant.

Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.

This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 27 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1263 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1263 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.