Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 475 - RULES OF STATE BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES
Chapter 475-3 - RULES
Rule 475-3-.09 - Records of Board are Confidential

Universal Citation: GA Rules and Regs r 475-3-.09

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through March 20, 2024

(1) All information both oral and written received by the Board in the performance of its duty, not public record elsewhere or not obtained in a public hearing of the Board, shall be classified as confidential state secrets unless declassified by resolution of the Board.

(2) Requests for classified information must be submitted to the Board in writing and shall set forth the specific information desired and the reason therefor.

(3) The Board will not consider a disclosure of numerical division in the votes of the Board nor of the decision of an individual Board member in a decision to extend clemency except on request of the Governor or the Attorney General. The Board may make such a disclosure on its own motion where there is a unanimous consent of all Board members, or

(4) The Chairman of the Board may disclose, in his discretion, sufficient information to clarify misleading or erroneous allegations and when deemed in the best interest of the public and the parole system.

Ga. L. 1943, pp. 185, 194; Ga. L. 1953 (Nov. Sess.), pp. 210, 211.

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