Gov. Code, § 6215.10 · Chapter 3.2. Address Confidentiality for Reproductive Health Care Service Providers, Employees, Volunteers, Patients, and Other Individuals Who Face Threats or Violence Because of Work for a Public Entity
Gov. Code, § 6215.10
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) A person, business, or association shall not publicly post or publicly display on the Internet the home address of a program participant who has made a written demand of that person, business, or association to not disclose the home address of the program participant.
(b) A person, business, or association shall not knowingly post the home address of a program participant, or of the program participant’s residing spouse or child, on the Internet knowing that person is a program participant and intending to cause imminent great bodily harm that is likely to occur or threatening to cause imminent great bodily harm to that individual.
(c) This section shall not apply to an interactive computer service or access software provider, as defined in Section 230(f) of Title 47 of the United States Code, unless the service or provider intends to abet or cause imminent great bodily harm that is likely to occur or threatens to cause imminent great bodily harm to a program participant.
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History
Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 881, Sec. 2. (AB 2263) Effective January 1, 2017.
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