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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 815
COMPUTER-RELATED CRIMES
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F.S. 815.045
815.045 Trade secret information.The Legislature finds that it is a public necessity that trade secret information as defined in s. 812.081 be expressly made confidential and exempt from the public records law because it is a felony to disclose such records. Due to the legal uncertainty as to whether a public employee would be protected from a felony conviction if otherwise complying with chapter 119, and with s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, it is imperative that a public records exemption be created. The Legislature in making disclosure of trade secrets a crime has clearly established the importance attached to trade secret protection. Disclosing trade secrets in an agency’s possession would negatively impact the business interests of those providing an agency such trade secrets by damaging them in the marketplace, and those entities and individuals disclosing such trade secrets would hesitate to cooperate with that agency, which would impair the effective and efficient administration of governmental functions. Thus, the public and private harm in disclosing trade secrets significantly outweighs any public benefit derived from disclosure, and the public’s ability to scrutinize and monitor agency action is not diminished by nondisclosure of trade secrets.
History.s. 2, ch. 94-100; s. 41, ch. 2022-5.
Note.Former s. 119.165.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 815.045
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 815.045.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

MANAGED CARE OF NORTH AMERICA, INC. v. FLORIDA HEALTHY KIDS CORPORATION, 268 So. 3d 856 (Fla. App. Ct. 2019)

. . . At issue here is the legislatively created exemption to the public records law under section 815.045, . . . Section 815.045, establishes that it is a public necessity that trade secrets "as defined in s. 812.081 . . .

SURTERRA FLORIDA, LLC. v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, 223 So. 3d 376 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2017)

. . . section 812.081, Florida Statutes (2015), and were exempt from disclosure as public records under section 815.045 . . . Barfield appellants’ unredacted applications pursuant to section 815.045 but told him that he could retrieve . . . See § 815.045, Fla. . . .

OFFICE OF INSURANCE REGULATION, v. STATE FARM FLORIDA INSURANCE COMPANY,, 213 So. 3d 1104 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2017)

. . . See § 815.045, Fla. Stat. . . .

JAMES, HOYER, NEWCOMER, SMILJANICH, YANCHUNIS, P. A. v. RODALE, INC., 41 So. 3d 386 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . ”) to be trade secrets, and therefore exempt from disclosure as public records, pursuant to section 815.045 . . . The legislatively created exemption at issue here is set out in section 815.045, Florida Statutes (2009 . . . to scrutinize and monitor agency action” concerning practices of which customers have complained. § 815.045 . . .

COVENTRY FIRST, LLC, a v. STATE OFFICE OF INSURANCE REGULATION, 30 So. 3d 552 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . .” § 815.045, Fla. Stat. (2007). . . .

NOS COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. STATE A., 858 So. 2d 362 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)

. . . brief the argument that the documents at issue were exempt from the Public Records Act under section 815.045 . . .

SEPRO CORPORATION, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, L. L. C., 839 So. 2d 781 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)

. . . The complaint invoked sections 403.111, 688.002, 812.081 and 815.045, Florida Statutes (2000). . . . exempt from the public disclosure mandate of § 119.07(1) pursuant to the exemptions in §§ 815.04(3) and 815.045 . . . What is now codified as section 815.045, Florida Statutes (2002), was originally codified as section . . . While Section 815.045, Florida Statutes (2001), reads more like a statement of legislative intent than . . .