Georgia CommonsTitle 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 8. PROBATION · Article 2. STATE-WIDE PROBATION SYSTEM
42-8-40. Confidentiality of reports, files, records, and other information related to supervision; exemption from subpoena; declassification.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
All reports, files, records, and information of whatever kind relative to the supervision of probationers and parolees are declared to be confidential and shall be available only to the probation system officials, the judge handling a particular case, the Board of Community Supervision, DCS, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, as appropriate. Such reports, files, records, and information shall not be subject to process of subpoena; provided, however, that the commissioner of community supervision may by written order declassify any such records.
History
Ga. L. 1956, p. 27, § 19; Ga. L. 1958, p. 15, § 11; Ga. L. 2003, p. 421, § 1; Ga. L. 2011, p. 620, § 1/SB 214; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 4-1/HB 310.
Editor's notes
Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 6-1/HB 310, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall become effective July 1, 2015, and shall apply to sentences entered on or after such date.”
Cross references
Inspection of public records generally, § 50-18-70 et seq.
Law reviews
For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015).
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