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Public Servant Protection Act of 2022
12/30/2022, 12:04 AM
Summary of Bill HR 7799
The bill proposes several key provisions, including:
1. Increasing penalties for individuals who assault, threaten, or intimidate public servants while they are performing their duties. This includes harsher fines and longer prison sentences for offenders. 2. Providing additional resources and training for public servants to help them better protect themselves and respond to dangerous situations. 3. Establishing a national database to track incidents of violence against public servants, in order to better understand the scope of the problem and develop strategies to prevent future attacks. 4. Creating a grant program to support local law enforcement agencies and other public servant organizations in implementing safety measures and training programs. Overall, the Public Servant Protection Act of 2022 aims to address the growing concern of violence against public servants and ensure that those who put their lives on the line to serve their communities are adequately protected. The bill has received bipartisan support in Congress and is currently being reviewed by relevant committees before potentially being brought to a vote.
Congressional Summary of HR 7799
Public Servant Protection Act of 2022
This bill allows government officials to demand that persons and interactive computer service providers (e.g., social media companies) remove certain forms of their personal information from the internet.
Specifically, a federal, state, territorial, tribal, or local government official may make a demand in writing for the removal of the official's (or an immediate family member's) home address or home phone number that is publicly displayed online.
Within 48 hours of receiving a demand, a person displaying the address or phone number online must remove it and may not publicly display a removed address or phone number online during the 4-year period following receipt of the demand.
A provider must also remove within 48 hours of receiving a demand the address or phone number publicly displayed through its service.
Officials may sue a person or provider for failing to remove an applicable address or phone number. Courts may award to an aggrieved official injunctive relief, the greater of actual damages or $1,000, and reasonable costs and attorney's fees.
