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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="4-209" title_number="4" title_name="Patuxent Institution" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Institution shall compile and maintain a complete record of each incarcerated individual transferred to it for evaluation or treatment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The record shall include the following materials to the extent that the materials are physically available and the inclusion is not prohibited by federal law:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>police reports and other relevant information concerning the crime of which the incarcerated individual was most recently convicted and the sentence imposed for that conviction;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the incarcerated individual’s criminal and juvenile history and all relevant records concerning this history;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>presentence investigation, parole, probation, and other reports concerning the incarcerated individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>school records;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>information concerning the incarcerated individual’s medical and mental health history, including relevant medical and hospital records and reports; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>all other relevant information, records, and reports concerning the incarcerated individual’s social, physical, or mental condition and history.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Institution shall record a full and accurate description, including photographs, of each incarcerated individual transferred to the Institution for treatment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Institution may adopt the Bertillon method or any other accurate method of description, measurement, and registration.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In order that the Institution may comply with this section, all State and local officials and units:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall cooperate with the Institution; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>promptly, on request of the Institution, shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Institution the information, records, and reports in their possession.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The provisions of § 3–8A–27(b) of the Courts Article do not apply to a request made for juvenile records under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>To the extent that any record, report, or information compiled under this section is legally confidential, it shall remain confidential and may not be disclosed to any person or unit except to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Commissioner or the Commissioner’s authorized staff;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Division of Parole and Probation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the Maryland Parole Commission;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a State’s Attorney, when required in the prosecution or defense of a proceeding in court;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a federal, State, or local law enforcement officer on a written request signed by an authorized commanding officer of the law enforcement unit certifying that the record, report, or information is needed for a pending investigation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>an authorized correctional official or probation officer of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the United States; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a state, if that jurisdiction has made reciprocal provision by law to furnish similar records, reports, or information to comparable officials of this State;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>the Attorney General;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>the Inmate Grievance Office, to the extent relevant to a matter pending before it and with the written consent of the incarcerated individual to whom the record, report, or information pertains;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>the Division of Rehabilitation Services of the Department of Education solely to determine if an incarcerated individual confined at the Institution qualifies for benefits provided by that Division;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>providers of medical care to the extent necessary to ensure proper medical treatment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>a judge of a circuit court or the District Court when required in connection with a pretrial release, presentence, or postsentence investigation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>State, local, and federal units and private agencies to the extent that the release of the record, report, or information will benefit an eligible person but only with the written consent of the incarcerated individual to whom the record, report, or information pertains.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Confidential records, reports, or information may be disclosed under subsection (e) of this section only if the Director reasonably believes that the record, report, or information:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>will be used solely for the legitimate purposes of the person or unit receiving it; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>will not be further disseminated to any person or unit not authorized to receive it under subsection (e) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>Juvenile records obtained under subsection (d) of this section may be disclosed only:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to a person or unit listed in subsection (e)(1), (2), and (3) of this section; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in accordance with subsection (f) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
