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LA Rev Stat § 44:3 :: RS 44:3 — Records of prosecutive, investigative, and law enforcement agencies, and communications districts :: 2011 Louisiana Laws :: US Codes and Statutes :: US Law :: Justia
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RS 44:3 — Records of prosecutive, investigative, and law enforcement agencies, and communications districts
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§3. Records of prosecutive, investigative, and law enforcement agencies, and communications districts
A. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to require disclosures of records, or the information contained therein, held by the offices of the attorney general, district attorneys, sheriffs, police departments, Department of Public Safety and Corrections, marshals, investigators, public health investigators, correctional agencies, communications districts, intelligence agencies, or publicly owned water districts of the state, which records are:
(4)(a) The records of the arrest of a person, other than the report of the officer or officers investigating a complaint, until a final judgment of conviction or the acceptance of a plea of guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction. However, the initial report of the officer or officers investigating a complaint, but not to apply to any followup or subsequent report or investigation, records of the booking of a person as provided in Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 228, records of the issuance of a summons or citation, and records of the filing of a bill of information shall be a public record.
B. All records, files, documents, and communications, and information contained therein, pertaining to or tending to impart the identity of any confidential source of information of any of the state officers, agencies, or departments mentioned in Paragraph A above, shall be privileged, and no court shall order the disclosure of same except on grounds of due process or constitutional law. No officer or employee of any of the officers, agencies, or departments mentioned in Paragraph A above shall disclose said privileged information or produce said privileged records, files, documents, or communications, except on a court order as provided above or with the written consent of the chief officer of the agency or department where he is employed or in which he holds office, and to this end said officer or employee shall be immune from contempt of court and from any and all other criminal penalties for compliance with this paragraph.
H. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as prohibiting the release of any report resulting from a request for an investigation of an alleged violation of the crime of identity theft as defined under the provisions of R.S. 14:67.16 to the victim of such alleged crime. However, the information which shall be released to such victim shall be limited to that information required to be released under the provisions of R.S. 14:67.16(G)(2).
Amended by Acts 1972, No. 448, §1; Acts 1978, No. 313, §1; Acts 1978, No. 686, §1; Acts 1979, No. 336, §1; Acts 1983, No. 247, §1; Acts 1984, No. 945, §1; S.C.R. No. 139, 1985 R.S.; Acts 1986, No. 785, §1; Acts 1988, No. 438, §1; Acts 1990, No. 59, §§2 and 3, eff. June 26, 1990; Acts 1990, No. 218, §1, eff. July 2, 1990; Acts 1991, No. 86, §1; Acts 1995, No. 519, §1, eff. June 18, 1995; Acts 1999, No. 484, §1, eff. June 18, 1999; Acts 1999, No. 1189, §1; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 128, §4; Acts 2003, No. 631, §2; Acts 2003, No. 844, §3; Acts 2003, No. 1197, §1.