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22-3711. Certain records privileged. The presentence report, the preparole report, the pre-postrelease supervision report and the supervision history, obtained in the discharge of official duty by any member or employee of the prisoner review board or any other employee of the department of corrections, shall be privileged and shall not be disclosed directly or indirectly to anyone other than the prisoner review board, the judge, the attorney general or others entitled to receive the information, except that the board, secretary of corrections or court may permit the inspection of the report or parts of it by the defendant, inmate, defendant's or inmate's attorney or other person having a proper interest in it, whenever the best interest or welfare of a particular defendant or inmate makes the action desirable or helpful.

History: L. 1970, ch. 129, § 22-3711; L. 1972, ch. 317, § 84; L. 1973, ch. 339, § 64; L. 1984, ch. 130, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 309, § 17; L. 1992, ch. 239, § 268; L. 2012, ch. 16, § 12; July 1.

Source or Prior Law:

62-2233.

Law Review and Bar Journal References:

"Administrative Law: Deletion of Confidential Information from Official Public Records," David E. Bruns, 22 W.L.J. 364 (1983).

"Kansas Sunshine Law: How Bright Does It Shine Now? The Kansas Open Meetings and Open Records Acts," Theresa "Terry" Marcel, 72 J.K.B.A. No. 5, 28 (2003).

Attorney General's Opinions:

KORA; parole board; certain records not required to be open. 89-127.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. "Supervisory history" files kept by parole officers, except for information pertaining to pending criminal charges, are not releaseable under KORA, but other post-incarceration records of inmates maintained by DOC may be released. Wichita Eagle & Beacon Publishing Co. v. Simmons, 274 Kan. 194, 50 P.3d 66 (2002).


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