Montana § 41-5-220 Electronic Records -- Formal Policies And Administrative Rules Required

Montana Statutes

§ 41-5-220 — Electronic Records -- Formal Policies And Administrative Rules Required

Montana § 41-5-220

Title 41MINORS

Ch. 5YOUTH COURT ACT

Part 2Youth Court -- Jurisdiction -- Records

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Mont. Code Ann. § 41-5-220 (2026).

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41-5-220 . Electronic records -- formal policies and administrative rules required.

(1)(a) The department and the youth court are required to adopt appropriate control methods to ensure adequate integrity, security, and confidentiality of any electronic records of a youth generated or maintained in any management information system.

(b)The office of the court administrator shall adopt formal policies, and the department shall adopt administrative rules to institute the requirements in subsection (1)(a).

(2)For the purposes of this part, any references to "sealing", "physically sealed", and "destroyed" must be interpreted to have the same meaning when applied to electronic records and must be applied to have the same force and effect. A sealed record must be made unavailable for access b

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41-5-220 . Electronic records -- formal policies and administrative rules required. (1) (a) The department and the youth court are required to adopt appropriate control methods to ensure adequate integrity, security, and confidentiality of any electronic records of a youth generated or maintained in any management information system.
(b) The office of the court administrator shall adopt formal policies, and the department shall adopt administrative rules to institute the requirements in subsection (1)(a).
(2) For the purposes of this part, any references to "sealing", "physically sealed", and "destroyed" must be interpreted to have the same meaning when applied to electronic records and must be applied to have the same force and effect. A sealed record must be made unavailable for access by any person unless upon court order as provided in 41-5-216 . A destroyed record must be rendered inaccessible and unrecoverable and disposed of in a manner in which confidentiality is protected, which may include disassociating the offense and disposition information from the name of the youth.