Indiana Administrative Code
Title 210 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION
Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Rule 6 - Collection, Maintenance, and Release of Offender and Juvenile Records
Section 6-2 - Classification of information

Universal Citation: 210 IN Admin Code 6-2

Current through March 20, 2024

Authority: IC 11-8-5-2

Affected: IC 11-8-5-2

Sec. 2.

The department shall collect, maintain, and use only that offender or juvenile personal information that is relevant and necessary to accomplish the statutory purposes of the agency. All offender or juvenile information collected and retained by the department shall be classified in the following manner:

(1) Unrestricted information shall include only information pertaining to an offender that is considered by law to be public information. Certain information normally considered restricted or confidential may be considered unrestricted information if there is a compelling public interest in disclosure. Unrestricted information is accessible by any person upon specific request, with the exception of offenders to whom the information does not pertain or any juvenile.

(2) Restricted information shall include, but is not limited, to the following:

(A) Education, medical, sex offender, substance abuse, disciplinary, criminal, and employment records.

(B) Finger and voice prints.

(C) Photographs.

(D) Institutional summaries.

(E) Psychiatric and psychological reports.

(F) Social history reports.

(G) Progress reports.

(H) Educational and vocational reports.

(3) Confidential information shall include, but is not limited to, the following:

(A) Offender diagnostic/classification reports.

(B) Criminal intelligence information.

(C) Information that, if disclosed, might result in physical harm to that person or other persons.

(D) Information obtained upon promise of confidentiality.

(E) Internal investigation information.

(F) All juvenile records.

(G) Any other information required by law or promulgated rule to be maintained as confidential.

(4) All offender information obtained from other agencies, organizations, or sources shall be held to the same degree of confidentiality as that designated by the generating source.

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