AB520: Bill Text

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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE

2013 Assembly BILL 520

November 22, 2013 - Introduced by Representatives Stroebel, Tittl, Murphy, Murtha, T. Larson and Bies, cosponsored by Senators L. Taylor and Grothman. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

AB520,1,3 An Act to create 758.20 of the statutes; relating to: removing certain information contained in the Consolidated Court Automation Programs Internet site.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the director of state courts established a consolidated electronic system. This system, known as the Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP), contains information about civil and criminal cases filed in the circuit courts in this state, including information about the parties and their attorneys; documents filed; and deadlines, decisions, and outcomes of cases.

The information on CCAP is available for free on an Internet site. CCAP allows a user to search for all civil and criminal cases in which a person or entity, who is the subject of the search, has been a party.

Under this bill, the director of state courts must remove from CCAP's Internet site all information regarding a civil case if all money judgments entered against a party in the case are satisfied in full, and eight years have passed since the date the judgment was satisfied in full.

For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB520,1 Section 1. 758.20 of the statutes is created to read:

AB520,2,6 758.20 Consolidated court automation programs. (1) In this section, "Wisconsin Circuit Court Access Internet site" means the Internet site of the consolidated court automation programs, which is the statewide electronic circuit court case management system established under s. 758.19 (4) and maintained by the director of state courts.

AB520,2,8 (2) The director of state courts shall remove from the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access Internet site all information relating to a case if all of the following are true:

AB520,2,9 (a) The case is a civil case.

AB520,2,10 (b) The court has entered a money judgment in the case.

AB520,2,11 (c) The money judgment has been satisfied in full.

AB520,2,13 (d) Eight years have passed since the date the money judgment was satisfied in full.

AB520,2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

AB520,2,17 (1) This act first applies to judgments or orders entered before the effective date of this subsection if information regarding the judgment or order is available on the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access Internet site on the effective date of this subsection.

AB520,2,18 (End)