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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="3-602" title_number="3" title_name="Division of Correction" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Incarcerated Individuals -- Case Records; Disciplinary Action; Property; Financial Accounts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, the contents of a case record maintained under § 3–601 of this subtitle may not be disclosed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The contents of a case record may be disclosed:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>if the record is necessary to ensure proper medical treatment, to a provider of medical services to the incarcerated individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>to the incarcerated individual’s attorney;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>to a person authorized by a court order;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>to a person expressly authorized by law;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>to a judge of a State court;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>to a State’s Attorney;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>to an employee of any State unit or a federal or local law enforcement unit, if disclosure is in furtherance of the employee’s lawful duties; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>on written request, to a person who has written authorization for the disclosure from the incarcerated individual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except for a disclosure under subsection (b)(5) or (6) of this section, an incarcerated individual’s case record may be disclosed only if the managing official of the correctional facility:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>approves the disclosure; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is satisfied that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>each applicable condition set forth in subsection (b) of this section has been met;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the record will be used solely for the legitimate purposes of the person or governmental unit that receives it and not for any improper or unauthorized purpose; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the record will not be further disseminated to a person or governmental unit not authorized to receive it.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with this section to establish procedures that govern the disclosure of an incarcerated individual’s case record.</text>
  </level>
</section>
