Colorado § 24-30-2109 - Disclosure of actual address prohibited.

§ 24-30-2109. Disclosure of actual address prohibited.

(1) The executive director or his or her designee is prohibited from disclosing any address or telephone number of a program participant other than the substitute address designated by the executive director or his or her designee, except under any of the following circumstances:

(a) The information is required by direction of a court order pursuant to section 24-30-2111. However, any person to whom a program participant's address or telephone number has been disclosed shall not disclose the address or telephone number to any other person unless permitted to do so by order of the court.

(b) The executive director or his or her designee grants a request by an agency pursuant to section 24-30-2110.

(c) The program participant is required to disclose the participant's actual address as part of a registration required by the "Colorado Sex Offender Registration Act", article 22 of title 16, C.R.S.

(2) The executive director or his or her designee shall provide immediate notification of disclosure to a program participant when disclosure is made pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) of this section.

(3) If, at the time of application, an applicant or an individual designated in section 24-30-2105 (3)(j) is subject to a court order related to dissolution of marriage proceedings, child support, or the allocation of parental responsibilities or parenting time, the executive director or his or her designee shall notify the court that issued the order of the certification of the program participant in the address confidentiality program and the substitute address designated by the executive director or his or her designee. If, at the time of application, an applicant or an individual designated in section 24-30-2105 (3)(j) is involved in a court action related to dissolution of marriage proceedings, child support, or the allocation of parental responsibilities or parenting time, the executive director or his or her designee shall notify the court having jurisdiction over the action of the certification of the applicant in the address confidentiality program and the substitute address designated by the executive director or his or her designee.

(4) No person shall knowingly and intentionally obtain a program participant's actual address or telephone number from the executive director or his or her designee or an agency knowing that the person is not authorized to obtain the address information.

(5) No employee of the executive director or his or her designee or of an agency shall knowingly and intentionally disclose a program participant's actual address or telephone number unless the disclosure is permissible by law. This subsection (5) only applies when an employee obtains a participant's actual address or telephone number during the course of the employee's official duties and, at the time of disclosure, the employee has specific knowledge that the actual address or telephone number disclosed belongs to a participant.

(6) Any person who knowingly and intentionally obtains or discloses information in violation of this part 21 shall be guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501, C.R.S.

Source: L. 2011: Entire part added with relocations, (HB 11-1080), ch. 256, p. 1116, § 2, effective June 2. L. 2015: (1)(a) amended, (HB 15-1174), ch. 42, p. 104, § 4, effective March 20.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 24-21-209 as it existed prior to 2011.