Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. Records Management and Retention
1. The board shall implement a records
management program to ensure all Board of Pardons vital records are stored
managed, and disposed of in accordance with state law. The board shall use the
records retention schedule created and maintained by the Department of Public
Safety and Corrections, Corrections Services.
B. Confidentiality
1. The presentence investigation report, the
pre-parole report, the clemency investigation, the information and data
gathered by staff of the board, the prison record, and any other information
obtained by the board or the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, in
the discharge of their official duties shall be confidential and shall not be
subject to public inspection or be disclosed directly or indirectly to anyone
except as provided by these rules and La.
R.S.
15:574.12, and regulations of the Department
of Public Safety and Corrections.
C. Release of Information - Sex Offenders
1. board is authorized to release to the
public the following information regarding sex offenders:
a. name and address;
b. crime of conviction and date of
conviction;
c. date of release on
parole or diminution of sentence;
d. most recent photograph available;
and
e. any other information that
may be necessary and relevant for public protection.
2. Verbal requests for such information are
acceptable.
3. The chairman of the
board or his or her designee may require a written request before releasing any
information.
4. The board cannot
release any information regarding victims or witnesses of sex crimes to the sex
offender or the general public.
D. Release of Information - Minor Victim(s)
1. In addition to any other information
authorized to be released, the board may, pursuant to
R.S.
15:546, release information concerning any
inmate under the jurisdiction of the board who is convicted of any sex offense
or criminal offense against a victim who is a minor, or who has been determined
to be a sexually violent predator.
E. Release of Information - Criminal
Convictions
1. The board may disseminate
information regarding an offender's criminal convictions without
restriction.
F. Other
information regarding an offender's criminal history records, including
nonconviction history may only be released subject to the restrictions outlined
in
R.S.
15:548. Unless the request is made by a
representative of a criminal justice agency or a juvenile justice agency, such
information shall, under normal circumstances, be released only pursuant to a
written request.
G. The board shall
be immune from liability for the release of information concerning any sex
offender, sexually violent predator, or child predator.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
15:574.2 et seq.,
R.S.
15:535 et seq., and
R.S.
15:540 et
seq.
