Alaska Administrative Code
Title 9 - Law
Chapter 52 - Executive Branch Code of Ethics
9 AAC 52.160 - Confidentiality

(a) The attorney general will keep confidential the information obtained in the course of an ethics investigation that is not relevant to an accusation or subsequent ethics proceedings.

(b) The attorney general will, in the attorney general's discretion, forward information obtained in the course of an ethics investigation to the subject's designated supervisor or other appropriate superior for potential disciplinary action under AS 39.52.420. Information forwarded under this subsection remains confidential, and the subject's designated supervisor or other appropriate superior may share the information only with a person who needs to know the information to consider potential disciplinary action.

(c) A subject may not partially waive the confidentiality protection of AS 39.52.340 or this chapter.

(d) Nothing in AS 39.52.340 or this section prevents a person from disclosing to a third person information the person learned independent of the investigation conducted by the attorney general, unless prohibited by other laws.

(e) Nothing in this section prevents either the attorney general from withholding or a person from objecting to the release of information or materials in the possession of the attorney general on a legal ground other than one provided by AS 39.52.340.

(f) If, after an ethics investigation, the attorney general does not initiate formal proceedings, then information and material discovered in the course of the ethics investigation, as well as the existence of the ethics investigation, must remain confidential unless disclosure is otherwise permitted under the Ethics Act or this chapter.

(g) If the attorney general determines that a crime may have been committed or may be committed, the attorney general will, in the attorney general's discretion, release information obtained in a confidential ethics matter to an appropriate law enforcement agency.