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type: "Bill"
title: "Disclosure of personal information to offender."
description: "Amends the access to public records act to provide that personal information regarding a correctional officer, probation officer, community corrections officer, law enforcement officer, judge, crime victim, or their family members may be withheld from disclosure when requested by a person confined in a prison, county jail, detention facility, or in a community corrections program as a result of the person's arrest or conviction for a crime, or that person's agent or relative. (Currently the law permits withholding personal information of officers, judges, victims, or their family members, if the information is requested by a person incarcerated in a penal institution after conviction for a crime.) Provides that the term \"agent\" does not include an attorney in good standing admitted to the practice of law in Indiana."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 216"
citation: "Indiana SB 216 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC RECORDS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Jack Sandlin", "Woody Burton"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66fc91a0-eef4-4c09-9499-6a11f32f8b04"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/216"
source_hash: "eaa109ed34be772c0e4503f2857b52c18edf7084da4ff60d65663bd6041cb498"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---
# Indiana SB 216 (2020) — Disclosure of personal information to offender.
Amends the access to public records act to provide that personal information regarding a correctional officer, probation officer, community corrections officer, law enforcement officer, judge, crime victim, or their family members may be withheld from disclosure when requested by a person confined in a prison, county jail, detention facility, or in a community corrections program as a result of the person's arrest or conviction for a crime, or that person's agent or relative. (Currently the law permits withholding personal information of officers, judges, victims, or their family members, if the information is requested by a person incarcerated in a penal institution after conviction for a crime.) Provides that the term "agent" does not include an attorney in good standing admitted to the practice of law in Indiana.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0216/versions/SB0216.03.ENGS)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0216/versions/SB0216.05.ENGH)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0216/versions/SB0216.06.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0216/versions/SB0216.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0216/versions/SB0216.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0216/versions/SB0216.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 216 - Sandlin - 3rd Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
- SB 216 - Burton - 3rd Reading — **940** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Woody Burton — primary (person)
- Dollyne Sherman — cosponsor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- John Young — cosponsor (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Matt Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Sandlin
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2020-01-23** Senator Freeman removed as second author
- **2020-01-23** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2020-01-23** Senator Freeman added as third author
- **2020-01-23** Senators Ford Jon, Glick, Rogers added as coauthors
- **2020-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2020-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-02-03** Amendment #1 (Sandlin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- **2020-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 147: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-04** House sponsor: Representative Burton
- **2020-02-04** Cosponsor: Representative Sherman D
- **2020-02-05** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Representatives Pierce and Young J added as cosponsors
- **2020-03-02** Amendment #2 (Burton) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-02** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 278: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2020-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 347: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-16** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-18** Public Law 64
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66fc91a0-eef4-4c09-9499-6a11f32f8b04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).