§ 19-11-30.4.Disclosure of information
Chapter 11. Enforcement of Duty of Support · Article 1. Child Support Recovery Act · Last amended 1999 · Last verified October 9, 2026
Full Text of § 19-11-30.4
Plain-English Summary
The bank match gives the state a window into private accounts, and this section limits who may look through it. No employee or agent of the state shall divulge information collected under §§ 19-11-30.1 through 19-11-30.3 — the Bank Match Registry and its data requests and matches — or under § 19-11-30.6, the wage and bank information sharing program with other states, to any public or private agency or individual, except as this section allows.
The section allows one channel. Information may be disclosed and shared by and between any employee of an administering agency and any subgrantee, local administering agency or contractor performing child support enforcement functions under Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act. Put plainly, the data stays inside the child support enforcement system.
Unauthorized disclosure is punished under § 19-11-30, which makes a violation a misdemeanor. Section 19-11-30.6 also extends these prohibitions and penalties to information Georgia receives from another state under a reciprocal agreement. Note how the rule is framed: it binds the people who hold the data — state employees and agents — rather than the institutions that supply it, whose duties appear in §§ 19-11-30.2 and 19-11-30.5. The section was last amended in 1999.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can the department share my bank information with my ex?
Not under this section. State employees and agents may not divulge information collected through the bank match to any public or private agency or individual, except by sharing it among employees of an administering agency and subgrantees, local agencies or contractors performing Title IV-D child support enforcement functions. Unauthorized disclosure is punished under § 19-11-30.
Who can see child support bank match data in Georgia?
Only people inside the child support enforcement system. Information may be shared by and between employees of an administering agency and any subgrantee, local administering agency or contractor performing child support enforcement functions under Title IV-D. Section 19-11-30.1 also makes the child support enforcement agency the sole agency with access to the registry data.
What is the penalty for leaking Georgia bank match information?
Unauthorized disclosure is punished under § 19-11-30, which makes any person who violates it guilty of a misdemeanor. This section doesn’t set a separate sentence; it borrows the penalty from § 19-11-30 for disclosures of information collected under §§ 19-11-30.1 through 19-11-30.3 or § 19-11-30.6.
Does this privacy rule cover information Georgia gets from other states?
Yes. The section covers information collected under § 19-11-30.6, the wage and bank information sharing program with other states. And § 19-11-30.6 itself says the prohibitions and penalties of this section apply to any information received from another state under a reciprocal agreement.
Can child support contractors see my bank match data?
Yes, if they are doing child support enforcement work. The section allows information to be disclosed and shared with any subgrantee, local administering agency or contractor performing child support enforcement functions under Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act. Outside that circle, disclosure is unauthorized and punishable under § 19-11-30.
Amendment History
Laws 1997, p. 1613, § 30; Laws 1999, p. 81, § 19.