2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 40 - Domestic Affairs
Article 13B - Confidential Substitute Address
Section 40-13B-5 - Agencies; use of confidential substitute address; public records.

A. A participant shall:

(1) contact each agency that requests or uses an address; and

(2) provide the agency with a copy of the participant's confidential substitute address identification card.

B. Agencies that receive copies of confidential substitute address identification cards submitted pursuant to this section shall use the participant's confidential substitute address for all purposes.

C. A school district shall use a participant's confidential substitute address as the participant's address of record and, if necessary, shall verify a student's enrollment eligibility with the secretary of state.

D. A county clerk shall transfer all records related to a participant's voter registration to the secretary of state pursuant to the provisions of the Intimate Partner Violence Survivor Suffrage Act [1-6C-1 to 1-6C-9 NMSA 1978].

E. A participant's residential or delivery address, telephone number and email address that are maintained by an agency are not public records and shall not be disclosed pursuant to the Inspection of Public Records Act [Chapter 14, Article 2 NMSA 1978] while a person is a participant.

History: Laws 2018, ch. 40, § 5; 2019, ch. 226, § 11.

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, required the county clerk to transfer all records related to a participant's voter registration to the secretary of state pursuant to the provisions of the Intimate Partner Violence Survivor Suffrage Act; added a new Subsection D and redesignated former Subsection D as Subsection E.