Section 61.1825 - State Case Registry(1) The Department of Revenue or its agent shall operate and maintain a State Case Registry as provided by 42 U.S.C. s. 654A. The State Case Registry must contain records for:(a) Each case in which services are being provided by the department as the state's Title IV-D agency; and(b) By October 1, 1998, each support order established or modified in the state on or after October 1, 1998, in which services are not being provided by the Title IV-D agency. The department shall maintain that part of the State Case Registry that includes support order information for Title IV-D cases on the department's child support enforcement automated system.
(2) By October 1, 1998, for each support order established or modified by a court of this state on or after October 1, 1998, the depository for the court that enters the support order in a non-Title IV-D case shall provide, in an electronic format prescribed by the department, the following information to that component of the State Case Registry that receives, maintains, and transmits support order information for non-Title IV-D cases:(a) The names of the obligor, obligee, and child or children;(b) The social security numbers of the obligor, obligee, and child or children;(c) The dates of birth of the obligor, obligee, and child or children;(d) Whether a family violence indicator is present;(e) The date the support order was established or modified;(f) The case identification number, which is the two-digit numeric county code followed by the civil circuit case number;(g) The federal information processing system numeric designation for the county and state where the support order was established or modified; and(h) Any other data as may be required by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.(3)(a) For the purpose of this section, a family violence indicator must be placed on a record when: 1. A party executes a sworn statement requesting that a family violence indicator be placed on that party's record which states that the party has reason to believe that release of information to the Federal Case Registry may result in physical or emotional harm to the party or the child; or2. A temporary or final injunction for protection against domestic violence has been granted pursuant to s. 741.30(6), an injunction for protection against domestic violence has been issued by a court of a foreign state pursuant to s. 741.315, or a temporary or final injunction for protection against repeat violence has been granted pursuant to s. 784.046; or3. The department has received information on a Title IV-D case from the Domestic, Dating, Sexual, and Repeat Violence Injunction Statewide Verification System, established pursuant to s. 784.046(8)(b), that a court has granted a party a domestic violence or repeat violence injunction.(b) Before the family violence indicator can be removed from a record, the protected person must be afforded notice and an opportunity to appear before the court on the issue of whether the disclosure will result in harm.(4) The depository, using standardized data elements, shall provide the support order information required by subsection (2) to the entity that maintains the non-Title IV-D support order information for the State Case Registry at a frequency and in a format prescribed by the department.(5) The entity that maintains State Case Registry information for non-Title IV-D cases shall make the information available to the department in a readable and searchable electronic format that is compatible with the department's automated child support enforcement system.(6) State Case Registry information must be transmitted electronically to the Federal Case Registry of Child Support Orders by the department in a manner and frequency prescribed by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. s.44, ch. 98-397; s.8, ch. 99-375; s.14, ch. 2001-158; s.39, ch. 2008-61; s.8, ch. 2013-15.Amended by 2013 Fla. Laws, ch. 15, s 8, eff. 7/1/2013.