New Jersey Covered Persons Opt-Out
LexisNexis Risk Solutions ("LNRS") is a provider of technology solutions that support the efforts of government agencies, insurance companies, and financial services institutions to serve consumers. By bringing clarity to information, LNRS supports making communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, and processes more efficient.
New Jersey law P.L. 2023, c.113, P.L.2021, c.371 and Section 3 of New Jersey P.L.2015, c.226 (C.56:8-166.1) allow a “Covered Person” to make a request to a business to the effect that the business may no longer disclose or make available on the internet certain personal information of the Covered Person.
"Covered person" means an active, formerly active, or retired judicial officer, law enforcement officer, or child protective investigator in the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, as those terms are defined by section 1 of P.L.1995, c.23 (C.47:1A-1.1), or prosecutor, and any immediate family member residing in the same household as such judicial officer, law enforcement officer, child protective investigator in the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, or prosecutor.
The home address and unpublished home telephone number of any Covered Person.
Upon notification, and not later than 10 business days following receipt of the request, a person, business, or association shall not disclose or re-disclose on the Internet or otherwise make available, the home address or unpublished home telephone number of any covered person.
An authorized person seeking to prohibit the disclosure of the home address or unpublished home telephone number of any covered person shall provide written notice to the person from whom the authorized person is seeking nondisclosure that the authorized person is an authorized person and requesting that the person cease the disclosure of the information and remove the protected information from the Internet or where otherwise made available.
"Authorized person" means a covered person or any of the following persons hereby authorized to submit or revoke a request for the redaction or nondisclosure of a home address on behalf of a covered person:
Please note that the effect of this request may be that certain personal information about you is not available in identity verification and fraud prevention products utilized by businesses or organizations with whom you interact.
Security freezes will be placed based on your state of residency and the customers use case. Based on this information, LexisNexis may not release your report(s) or score(s) derived for those use cases subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act without your consent or as permitted by applicable law. You should be aware that applying a security freeze to your file may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of applications you make for items such as credit, benefits, or insurance underwriting.
Covered Persons in New Jersey are not required to provide additional supporting documentation at this time.
You may contact us as provided below or you may exercise your rights directly online. To effectuate your rights online, you will need to take the following two steps:
You may also choose to opt back in. If you would like to opt-in, please contact us as provided below.
A separate letter will be mailed to you with a unique Personal Identification Number (PIN) that you will need in the event that you choose to temporarily or permanently remove the security freeze. Should you wish to remove your security freeze, you must contact us and provide proper identification and your PIN number. Additional information on our Security Freeze page.
If you have any further questions, contact us through our LexisNexis Risk Help page or call the LexisNexis Consumer Center via phone at 1-888-217-1591. The Consumer Center’s hours of operation are Monday – Friday from 8:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Eastern Time.
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