California Code of Regulations
Title 15 - Crime Prevention and Corrections
Division 3 - Adult Institutions, Programs and Parole
Chapter 1 - Rules and Regulations of Adult Operations and Programs
Subchapter 4 - General Institution Regulations
Article 9.5 - Case Records
Section 3370 - Case Records File and Unit Health Records Material - Access and Release

(a) Unit health records means a patient's health record that includes all records of care and treatment rendered to patient.

(b) Except by means of a valid authorization, subpoena, or court order, no incarcerated or supervised person shall have access to another's case records file, unit health records, or component thereof.

(c) Incarcerated or supervised persons may review their own case records file and unit health records, subject to applicable federal and state law. This review shall be conducted in the presence of staff, and may necessitate the use of a computer.

(d) No incarcerated or supervised person shall access information designated confidential pursuant to section 3321 which is in or from their own case records file.

(e) No case records file, unit health records, or component thereof shall be released to any agency or person outside the department, except for private attorneys hired to represent the department, the office of the attorney general, the Board of Parole Hearings, the Inspector General, and as provided by applicable federal and state law. Any outside person or entity that receives case records files or unit health records is subject to all legal and departmental standards for the integrity and confidentiality of those documents.