The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"ACP" means Address Confidentiality Program.
"Address" means a residential street address, school address, or work address of a person.
"Application assistant" means an employee of a State or local government agency, private entity, or a nonprofit program who meets the minimum training requirements of 40 hours of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual violence training, or is designated by the Director to assist individuals in the completion of program participation applications.
"Authorized personnel" means an employee of a State or local government agency designated by the Chief Executive Officer of the agency, to process and have access to applications and records, pertaining to program participants.
"Department" means the Department of Children and Families.
"Director" means the Director of the Division on Women in the Department of Children and Families, or the Director's designee.
"Domestic violence" means an act defined under N.J.S.A. 2C:25-19, which has been reported to a law enforcement agency or court.
"Program manager" means the agency employee designated by the Director with responsibility for developing and administering the Address Confidentiality Program in accordance with the provisions at N.J.S.A. 47:4-1 et seq.
"Program participant" means a qualified person certified by the Director as eligible to participate in the Address Confidentiality Program established by this chapter.
"Public agency" means an office, department, division, bureau, board, commission, or other statutory unit of State or local government or any functional subdivision of that agency, which a program participant may request the use of the alternate address designated by the Director as the program participant's address pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:4-6 et seq.
"Public record" means any paper, written or printed book, document or drawing, map or plan, photograph, microfilm, data processed document, sound-recording or similar device, of any copy thereof which has been made or is required by law to be received for filing, indexing or reproducing by any officer, commission, agency, or authority of the State or of any political subdivision thereof including subordinate boards thereof, or that has been received by any such officer, commission, agency or authority of the State or of any political subdivision thereof, including subordinate boards thereof, in connection with the transaction of public business and has been retained by such recipient of successor as evidence of its activities or because of the information contained therein.
"Qualified person" means a reproductive health service patient or provider, a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or a person who has applied for an order pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:14-13 et seq., or a family member.
"Reproductive health service provider" means a physician, employee, volunteer, or contractor of the provider, hospital, clinic, physician's office, or facility that provides reproductive health services.
"Reproductive health services" means medical, surgical, counseling, or referral services relating to the human reproductive system, including services relating to pregnancy or the termination of pregnancy.
"Sexual assault" means an act of sexual assault as defined at N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2, if the act has been reported to a law enforcement agency or court.
"Stalking" means an act defined in section 1 at P.L. 1992, c. 209 (N.J.S.A. 2C:12-10), if the act has been reported to a law enforcement agency or court.
"Substitute mailing address" means a mailing address designated by the Director, which is not the program participant's residential address as documented on the participant's application but is an alternative address to which mail is to be mailed.
N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:71-2.1
See: 36 N.J.R. 3334(b), 36 N.J.R. 5094(a).
Rewrote "Program participant".
Notice of readoption with technical change, effective 1/3/2017.
See: 49 N.J.R. 97(c).