Opinion ID: 688350
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Heading: Expungement of Prison Record

Text: 8 This circuit has not specifically reached the issue of whether, absent a state-created right, there is a constitutionally protected right to an accurate prison record. See Hernandez v. Johnston, 833 F.2d 1316, 1319 (9th Cir.1987) (because Washington state had a state-created right to an accurate prison record, court declined to reach issue of whether an independent due process right existed). Cf. Paine v. Baker, 595 F.2d 197 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 925 (1979) (finding a limited right to expungement if information in prisoner's file was false and was relied by prison officials to a constitutionally significant degree). 9 Here, even if we were to assume that such a right existed, it already has been adjudicated that Hernandez does not have protected liberty interest in either a particular prison classification or in conditional or work release. See Hernandez v. McFadden, No. 92-16172, unpublished memorandum disposition, (9th Cir. Feb. 24, 1993). Accordingly, Hernandez cannot show that prison officials relied on this purportedly erroneous information in his prison file to a constitutionally significant degree. 2 10 AFFIRMED.