Fiscal Note
No appropriation required. DHI will pay $50 per month for this information.
Title
Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into an Agreement whereby the Madison Municipal Court shall provide court data to Drivers History Information Sales, LLC (DHI) for use in insurance support organization providing insurance companies and their agents with tools and services to support claims investigation activities, antifraud activities, rating and underwriting.
Body
WHEREAS, DHI’s services help insurance carriers more accurately attribute risk, ultimately benefiting consumers in the form of more fairly priced insurance policies; and,
WHEREAS, DHI supports its services by collaborating with a variety of state agencies, court systems, and municipalities to collect motor vehicle-related citation data; and,
WHEREAS, since March of 2013, the City has provided DHI monthly files containing data for all filed motor vehicle-related citations, including all disposition codes, in the City of Madison Municipal Court; and,
WHEREAS, since July 31, 2013, the City has redacted each defendant’s birth year and full address from the records of motor vehicle-related citations provided to DHI; and,
WHEREAS, the redactions substantially impair DHI’s ability to use the records by eliminating key identifiers necessary to correlate motor vehicle-related citations with insurance applicants and other driver records; and,
WHEREAS, the federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2721 (the “DPPA”), limits the circumstances under which certain personally identifiable information initially collected by a state department of motor vehicles may be released; and,
WHEREAS, the City withheld each defendant’s dates of birth and full addresses based upon concerns for complying with the DPPA and for preventing the theft or inappropriate disclosures of personally identifiable information; and,
WHEREAS, the DPPA expressly permits the release of information “[f]or use by any ins...
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