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Confidentialty Provisions Pertaining to Certain Criminal Justice Employees and
Family Violence or Sexual Assault Centers
Texas Tax Code § 25.025 permits peace officers, county jailers, Texas Department of
Criminal Justice employees, commissioned security officers, and certain victims of family
violence 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. 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.
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