P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 652a
The Criminal Justice Information System shall incorporate the creation of a Substitute Address Register for Victims of Domestic Violence for the purpose of establishing strategies and protecting the victims, by enabling government agencies and instrumentalities to respond to requests for public records without disclosing the location or address of domestic violence victims so as to protect them from their aggressors.
This substitute address shall be used as the home, work or school address, as the case may be, of the participant in the Register or his/her children, to receive mail as established by maximum size and weight, according to the regulations adopted to such purposes. The substitute address designated for a Register participant shall have no relation whatsoever with the actual home address of the domestic violence victim.
The organization of the Substitute Address Register for Victims of Domestic Violence shall provide this protection to any person residing in Puerto Rico regardless of his/her address of origin or immigrant status. Furthermore, such protection shall be likewise extended to any victim of domestic violence who has established his/her residency in Puerto Rico or who, for such reason, has moved to another jurisdiction. For purposes of this protection, the words “residence”, “residential”, and “resides” are to be understood within their common and ordinary meaning.
In addition to the substitute address, all other addresses of the participating victim shall be subject to confidentiality of communications established by this chapter.
History —Aug. 15, 1989, No. 54, p. 199, added as § 4.3 on Aug. 9, 2008, No. 221, § 1; May 29, 2013, No. 23, § 11.