The following words and terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Address Confidentiality Program" or "ACP" means the statutorily created program responsible for implementing Title 22, Section 60.14 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

"Application assistant" means a volunteer or employee of a designated agency that has been trained and registered by the Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General to assist individuals in the application process.

"Authorization card" means the card issued by the ACP Program Manager to a program participant upon certification identifying them as a program participant.

"Authorization number" means a number assigned to a program participant by the ACP Program Manager upon certification.

"Certification" means the process by which an applicant is determined eligible to participate in the program.

"Designated agency" means a state or local agency, federal government, a federally recognized tribal government agency, or a nonprofit agency that provides counseling, shelter, or other services to victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, human sex trafficking, or stalking that has been identified by the Office of Attorney General as a place where persons apply to be program participants.

"Minor" means a person who is less than eighteen (18) years of age.

"Office" means the Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General.

"Program manager" means the employee of the Office designated by the Attorney General to administer the Address Confidentiality Program.

"Participant" means the same as Title 22, Section 60.14(B)(2) of the Oklahoma Statutes.

"Substitute mailing address" means the address assigned to a program participant by the Office.

"Victims Advocacy and Services Unit" and "VASU" means the unit within the Office designated to administer the Address Confidentiality Program.

Transferred from 655:30-1-2 by HB 2638 (2008), eff 7-1-08 (Editor's Notice published at 25 Ok Reg 2607)

Amended at 26 Ok Reg 2434, eff 7-11-09

Amended at 28 Ok Reg 1921, eff 7-11-11

Amended at 33 Ok Reg 1215, eff 9-11-16

Amended at 38 Ok Reg 1697, eff 9-11-21

Amended at 43 Ok Reg, Number 18, effective 6-11-26