CONFIDENTIALITY PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO CERTAIN CRIMINAL JUSTICE EMPLOYEES, FEDERAL OR STATE JUDGES, AND FAMILY VIOLENCE OR SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTERS

Texas Tax Code § 25.025 permits certain persons to request that the appraisal district restrict from public access any information in the appraisal district records required by §25.02 that could be used to identify their home addresses. Eligible persons include peace officers, county jailers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees, commissioned security officers, certain victims of family violence, district attorney employees, criminal district attorney employees, certain county or municipal attorneys, federal judges, state judges, and officers or employees of a community supervision and corrections department.

The State Comptroller of Public Accounts prescribes the form on which these confidentiality requests may be made. Copies of the form are available at http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/taxforms/50-284.pdf or from HCAD's Information & Assistance Division at the HCAD office.

Tax Code § 25.026 also requires appraisal districts to keep confidential any information in the appraisal records that identifies the address of a family violence shelter center or a sexual assault program. These terms are defined in Section 51.002 of the Human Resources Code and Section 420.003 of the Government Code, respectively.