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Suspected of a Misdemeanor VP of Legislation – 2021 Legislative Summary
The last several years have brought discussions about privacy and records access. In
previous years, any introduced bills tended to be narrow in scope. 2021, however, had
several introduced bills which broaden the effects of privacy and records access bills.
Private Investigator
Describes How He Followed HB21-1015 and HB21-1107 both expand the privacy protections that were previously
Rep. Mo Brooks' Wife Into provided to law enforcement and human services workers. HB1015 expands those
Her Garage to Serve a privacy protections to certain criminal justice system personnel, renames those
Lawsuit individuals as ‘protected persons’ and extends those protections to the protected
person’s family. HB1107 expands the privacy protections to public health workers as well
as their employees, contractors, and others. Both bills have been signed by the
Governor.
Private Investigator Takes Another privacy bill was HB21-1111. This bill would have required governmental entities
on Augusta's Millbrook to give notice to Colorado residents every 90 days regarding certain personal information
Twins Case of those residents. The bill would have given Colorado residents the option to request
that governmental entities dispose of any paper or electronic documents containing the
resident’s personal identifying information. This bill started as a Republican-only
sponsored bill and had a massive fiscal note. The bill was ultimately rewritten as an
Colorado Justices Ease advisory group study to determine where personally identifiable information is stored by
Burden on Requests for state agencies, determine what entities have access to this information, and determine
Police Records costs and processes necessary to centralize the storage and protection of this
information. As a result of the rewriting, the bill became bipartisan sponsored, the fiscal
note shrank significantly, and the bill is awaiting the Governor’s signature.
However, easily the broadest privacy bill is SB21-190. This bill is commonly known as the
Colorado Privacy Act. With this bill, Colorado would become the third state to have a
consumer privacy protection law, along with California and Virginia. The bill impacts
companies that store or process data of more than 100,000 consumers per year; or
companies that profit from the sale or processing of the data of 25,000 consumers.
Interestingly, this bill does provide several exemptions to companies and entities that
otherwise fit the definitions of the bill. SB190 has bipartisan sponsorship and will likely
be signed by the Governor. (continued on next page)
