All information obtained by the Board or by any of its officials or employees in the discharge of their official duties, shall be confidential in nature and shall in no way be disclosed, revealing the name of the inmate in any manner, except for purposes directly related to the administration of justice in criminal cases, or when, once it is proven by the Board that there is a legitimate interest in the information requested, there is the voluntary written consent of the inmate or person on parole affected by the disclosure, or that of the person who has the legal custody of the inmate or the person on parole due to his/her incapacity to give said consent.\nAny person who discloses confidential information contained in the record of the offender or uses said information for a purpose other than that for what it was requested, shall incur a misdemeanor.\nHistory —July 22, 1974, No. 118, Part 1, p. 540, § 7; July 6, 2000, No. 114, § 14; Oct. 31, 2001, No. 151, § 9; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 316, § 4.
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