§ 44-04-18.3 — Records of juvenile court supervisors and probation officers and law enforcement and correctional employees - Law enforcement work schedules - Confidential informants

North Dakota § 44-04-18.3

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 44: Offices and Officers
• Ch. 44-04: Duties, Records, and Meetings

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enforcement and correctional employees - Law enforcement work schedules -
Confidential informants.
1. Except as provided in subsection 5, a telephone number and the home address of a
prosecutor, justice of the United States, federal judge, magistrate judge, supreme court

justice, district court judge, judicial referee, juvenile court director or probation officer,
an employee of a law enforcement agency, employee of a state or local correctional
facility, and an employee of the department of corrections and rehabilitation are
confidential. Information contained in a personnel record of an employee of the
department of corrections and rehabilitation may not be disclosed to an inmate in the
legal custody of the department of corrections and rehabilitation confined in a jail,
prison, or other correctional facility unless authorized by the director of the department
of corrections and rehabilitation. Information contained in a personnel record of a law
enforcement officer of a state or local law enforcement agency or in the personnel
record of a correctional employee of a correctional facility subject to chapter 12-44.1
may not be disclosed to an inmate confined in a state correctional facility or
correctional facility subject to chapter 12-44.1 unless authorized by the employing
agency.
2. Records or other information that would reveal the identity, or endanger the life or
physical well-being, of an undercover law enforcement officer is confidential. For
purposes of this subsection, an "undercover law enforcement officer" means a
full-time, salaried employee of a local or state law enforcement agency who acts
surreptitiously or poses as someone other than a law enforcement officer while
engaging in the investigation of a violation of law.
3. Any record containing the work schedule of employees of a law enforcement agency
or the department of corrections and rehabilitation is exempt.
4. A law enforcement officer or prosecutor, within the scope of the employment of the
officer or prosecutor, may provide assurances of confidentiality to a person providing
information regarding violations of the law. Any information that would identify or
provide a means of identifying a confidential informant, if the identity of the informant is
not otherwise publicly known, is confidential and may be disclosed only as permitted
by law.
5. A home address of an individual in subsection 1 which is included in a geographic
information system, a property title record, or tax parcel data is confidential only if an
individual in subsection 1 or the individual's employer submits a written request to the
custodian of the records. The request will remain confidential for the remainder of a
calendar year and must be renewed annually.