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2000 Florida Code
TITLE XII MUNICIPALITIES
Chapter 166 Municipalities  
PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS (ss. 166.011-166.0497)
166.0444   Employee assistance programs; confidentiality.

166.0444  Employee assistance programs; confidentiality.--

(1)  As used in this section, "employee assistance program" means a program provided by a municipality to assist any municipal employee who has a behavioral or medical disorder, substance abuse problem, or emotional difficulty which affects the employee's job performance, through referral for counseling, therapy, or other professional treatment.

(2)  Any communication between a municipal employee and personnel or service providers of a municipal employee assistance program relating to that employee's participation in such program shall be a confidential communication. Any routine monitoring of telephone calls by the municipality does not violate this provision. All records relating to that participation are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2003, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.

History.--s. 3, ch. 98-8.

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