South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 4 - Freedom Of Information Act
Section 30-4-165. Privacy of driver's license information.

(A) The Department of Motor Vehicles may not sell, provide, or furnish to a private party a person's height, weight, race, social security number, photograph, or signature in any form that has been compiled for the purpose of issuing the person a driver's license or special identification card. The department shall not release to a private party any part of the record of a person under fifteen years of age who has applied for or has been issued a special identification card.
(B) A person's height, weight, race, photograph, signature, and digitized image contained in his driver's license or special identification card record are not public records.
(C) Notwithstanding another provision of law, a private person or private entity shall not use an electronically-stored version of a person's photograph, social security number, height, weight, race, or signature for any purpose, when the electronically-stored information was obtained from a driver's license record.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 33, Section 1.

Structure South Carolina Code of Laws

South Carolina Code of Laws

Title 30 - Public Records

Chapter 4 - Freedom Of Information Act

Section 30-4-10. Short title.

Section 30-4-15. Findings and purpose.

Section 30-4-20. Definitions.

Section 30-4-30. Right to inspect or copy public records; fees; notification as to public availability of records; presumption upon failure to give notice; records to be available when requestor appears in person.

Section 30-4-40. Matters exempt from disclosure.

Section 30-4-45. Information concerning safeguards and off-site consequence analyses; regulation of access; vulnerable zone defined.

Section 30-4-50. Certain matters declared public information; use of information for commercial solicitation prohibited.

Section 30-4-55. Disclosure of fiscal impact on public bodies offering economic incentives to business; cost-benefit analysis required.

Section 30-4-60. Meetings of public bodies shall be open.

Section 30-4-65. Cabinet meetings subject to chapter provisions; cabinet defined.

Section 30-4-70. Meetings which may be closed; procedure; circumvention of chapter; disruption of meeting; executive sessions of General Assembly.

Section 30-4-80. Notice of meetings of public bodies.

Section 30-4-90. Minutes of meetings of public bodies.

Section 30-4-100. Injunctive relief; costs and attorney's fees.

Section 30-4-110. Hearings regarding disclosure; appropriate relief; civil fine for violation.

Section 30-4-160. Sale of Social Security number or driver's license photograph or signature.

Section 30-4-165. Privacy of driver's license information.