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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="3-2301" title_number="3" title_name="Courts of General Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction/special Causes of Action" subtitle_number="23" subtitle_name="Protected Individuals -- Protected Information">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Governmental entity” has the meaning stated in § 10–1501 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Office of Information Privacy” means the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Personal information” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A home address;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A home telephone number;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A mobile telephone number;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>A personal e–mail address;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>A Social Security number;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>A driver’s license number;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>A federal tax identification number;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>A bank account number;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>A credit or debit card number;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>A license plate number or unique identifier of a vehicle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>A birth or marital record;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xii">
        <text>A child’s name;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiii">
        <text>A school or daycare;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiv">
        <text>A place of worship; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xv">
        <text>A place of employment of an individual described in subsection (e)(6) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Personal information” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Information that has been publicly disclosed with the consent of the protected individual; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Information that is relevant to and displayed as part of a news story, commentary, an editorial, or any other speech on matters of public concern.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Protected individual” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A current or retired justice or judge of a court established under Article IV of the Maryland Constitution;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A current or retired justice or judge of a federal court, including a U.S. Bankruptcy Court, domiciled in the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A current or retired magistrate appointed by a circuit court of the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A current or retired United States magistrate judge domiciled in the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A current or retired commissioner of the District Court of Maryland; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>A spouse, a child, or a dependent who resides in the same household as an individual described in items (1) through (5) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Publish” means to post or otherwise make available to the general public on the Internet, social media, or social networks.</text>
  </level>
</section>
