Law keeps judges’ and public safety workers’ contact details confidential

The law keeps covered workers’ phone numbers and home addresses confidential. Coverage includes federal and state judges, prosecutors, court officials called judicial referees, juvenile court directors or probation officers, and law enforcement and corrections employees. Exceptions in subsection 5 of the same law apply; that subsection is not included.

Officials may give inmates information from covered employee personnel files only with the required permission. This covers state corrections department employees, state or local law enforcement officers, and correctional employees at facilities covered by chapter 12-44.1. For department employees’ files, the corrections director must authorize disclosure to inmates in department custody who are confined in a correctional facility. For covered officers’ and correctional employees’ files, the employing agency must authorize disclosure to inmates in state facilities or facilities covered by chapter 12-44.1.