Local Rule LR Cr P 32.02: Disclosure of Records or Testimony

LR Cr P 32.02. Disclosure of Records or Testimony.

Except as otherwise provided, no confidential records of the Court maintained by the probation office, including presentence reports, pretrial services records, probation records or testimony, shall be disclosed or provided unless a written application is made to the Court in compliance with the Rules for Disclosure adopted by the Judicial Conference of the United States in March of 2003. No disclosure shall be made or testimony provided until an order is entered. However, the probation officer shall release necessary probation records to other federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies, as required by 18 U.S.C. § 4042, without petitioning the Court or obtaining a court order directing the disclosure of those records. The probation officer shall immediately provide the Court with notice of the disclosure.

When a demand for a disclosure of presentence records, pretrial services records, probation records or testimony is made to a probation officer by subpoena or other judicial process, the Chief Probation Officer or Deputy Chief Probation Officer shall request an order from the sentencing judge. The probation officer shall make no disclosure until an order is entered.