17-495.01. Property owner confidentiality; disclosure; consent; civil penalty
A. Information collected in the furtherance of the roles, responsibilities and duties of a state agency or an entity acting on the state agency's behalf, from a private landowner, property owner or other participant or potential participant in an endangered species survey or other species research or conservation plan is confidential information and may not be disclosed to any person, including state or federal agencies, if the information relates to the specific location, species identification or quantity of any animal or plant life for which an endangered species survey or other species research or a conservation plan, or both, is under consideration, development or implementation. The state agency shall disclose such information only to the person that provided the information unless the person consents in writing to full or specified partial disclosure of such information.
B. Confidential information about species shall be collected only through a standardized form in which property owners provide express written consent to have their property surveyed or enrolled or potentially subject to enrollment in a conservation plan.
C. A person who violates the property owner confidentiality requirements in this section is subject to a civil penalty of $25, 000 for each violation of this section.