Parole hearings would require recordings and limit public release

The parole board would have to make electronic recordings of full parole board hearings, revocation hearings, and post-release control violation hearings. The requirement covers full board parole hearings and hearings about revoking parole or violating post-release control. The parole board must include the recording requirement in its rules for board proceedings. The supplied text does not state a separate start date for these recording requirements.

The department of rehabilitation and correction would have to provide recordings of full parole hearings as public records, while providing other specified hearing recordings only to eligible recipients. Public full-hearing recordings must exclude victim and victim-family identifying information and victim statements; recordings of revocation and post-release control hearings may go to the person involved, that person's lawyer, the prosecutor, or the victim. People who receive revocation or post-release control recordings may not copy, publish, or post them online, and must keep them confidential. The department must exclude protected health information and other protected victim information as required by the text. A person whose protected health information or identifying information is unlawfully disclosed may bring a civil damages claim. The supplied text does not state a separate start date for these disclosure and privacy rules.

Prosecutors would be allowed to request certain Department of Rehabilitation and Correction health care records for use in judicial release and parole cases. The provision covers records relevant to a court's medical-release verification and to a parole request involving an incarcerated person's claimed medical condition or diagnosis. For a medical judicial-release request, the department would have to provide requested records to the prosecutor. For a parole request, the parole board would include related medical or other health care records with notice to the prosecutor when the prisoner relies on a medical condition or diagnosis. The supplied text does not state a separate start date for this record-access provision.