An "opt-out" law passed in 2000 allows license holders to request that their names not be included in lists that marketers and the public can acquire. The law was intended to protect drivers' and hunters' personal information, but in practice it also made it more difficult for the public to obtain information about professional license holders. A proposed revision to the bill would still allow professional license holders to opt out of release of information such as Social Security numbers, phone and address, but name, city and zip code would not be subject to the opt out.
