

Frankly, there are just so many categories and our staff can't know all of them."

"Ones that are more difficult, like people who have been threatened with some domestic violence, I do ultimately review to make sure they are in the statute. "Some are pretty straightforward - if you are a judge or a police officer, those are all no-brainers," Shepherd said. I don't know - that's a debate for the Legislature." "I wonder if code enforcement is more deserving than some teacher who has been threatened by a student. "It seems to me there are some categories not in there that the Legislature probably should consider, and there are some in there that I question the necessity," said Will Shepherd, legal counsel for the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser's Office.

That's in addition to victims of violent crime, police, judges, state and federal prosecutors, public defenders, special magistrates and child enforcement hearing officers. Under Florida Statute 119.071, the list of property owners who may qualify for a confidential address now includes firefighters, EMTs, human resources managers (and assistant managers), code enforcement officers, tax collectors, juvenile probation officers, house parents, therapists, counselors, inspectors with the Department of Business and Professional Regulation and even people work in the internal audit department of a government agency. In Pinellas County, 3,740 homes have protected addresses. Simpson moving to in Florida?īut the house wasn't all that unusual. Speculation focused - wrongly, as it turned out - on a waterfront home on which all information that could identify the owners had been redacted. Simpson had bought a house for him in St.
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Protected addresses were recently in the news when the New York Post reported that the family of former pro football star and convicted felon O. "It's out of hand," said Barbara Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation in Tallahassee.
