29-10-7. Application.
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A. Information contained in the following documents shall be available for public inspection:
(1)posters, announcements or lists for identifying or apprehending fugitives or wanted persons;
(2)original records of entry such as police blotters maintained by criminal justice agencies, compiled chronologically and required by law or long-standing custom to be made public, if the records are organized on a chronological basis;
(3)court records of public judicial proceedings;
(4)published court or administrative opinions or public judicial, administrative or legislative proceedings;
(5)records of traffic offenses and accident reports;
(6)announcements of executive clemency; and
(7)statistical or analytical records or reports in which individuals are not identified and from which their identities are not ascertainable.
B. Nothing prevents a law enforcement agency from disclosing to the public arrest record information related to the offense for which an adult individual is currently within the criminal justice system. A law enforcement agency is not prohibited from confirming prior arrest record information to members of the news media or any other person, upon specific inquiry as to whether a named individual was arrested, detained, indicted or whether an information or other formal charge was filed on a specified date, if the arrest record information disclosed is based on data enumerated by Subsection A of this section.
History: 1953 Comp., § 39-10-8, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 339, § 4; 1993, ch. 260, § 5.