All official files, reports, documents, evaluations, and records pertaining to any individual which are kept in normal course of the conduct of the business of the Parole Commission are declared confidential. Except as otherwise provided by law, they may not be inspected by, items withdrawn from, or items furnished to any person or entity other than the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services, the Commissioner of Correction, the Director of the Division of Parole and Probation, and members and employees of the Commission of the Departments mentioned.

Authority: Correctional Services Article, §§2-109 and 7-207, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: September 3, 1975 (2:20 Md. R. 1301)

Amended May 8, 1978 and March 30, 1979

Regulation .22F amended effective June 3, 1985 (12:11 Md. R. 1051)

Regulations .17, .18, .22, and .23 amended as an emergency provision effective November 18, 1994 (21:25 Md. R. 2094); amended permanently effective April 24, 1995 (22:8 Md. R. 596)

Regulation .17A, C amended effective September 20, 2021 (48:19 Md. R. 802)

Regulation .17C amended effective October 24, 2016 (43:21 Md. R. 1168)

Regulation .18A amended effective October 24, 2016 (43:21 Md. R. 1168)

Regulation .18A, C, E amended effective September 20, 2021 (48:19 Md. R. 802)

Regulation .23B amended effective September 20, 2021 (48:19 Md. R. 802)

Annotation: COMAR 12.08.01.17A cited in Hanson v. Hughes, 52 Md. App. 246 (1982)

Annotation: COMAR 12.08.01 cited in Simms v. State, 65 Md. App. 685 (1986)