No. SB 1162
Filed under Local Government.
Public Records/Office of the Corrections Ombudsman and the Corrections Oversight Committee; Providing a public records exemption for correspondence and communications with the Office of the Corrections Ombudsman and the Corrections Oversight Committee; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCorrespondence and communications between incarcerated persons or members of the public and the Office of the Corrections Ombudsman, the Ombudsman, committee members, or office staff become confidential and exempt from the constitutional right of access to public records.
The Legislature grounds this in inmate safety: without confidentiality, incarcerated people and outside advocates might fear retaliation from correctional officers under investigation because of what they reported to the office.
Unlike every other exemption in this same batch, this one names only the state constitution's right-of-access provision -- it never cites the public records statute itself, and it includes no sunset-review repeal date.
AICorrespondence and communications between incarcerated persons or members of the public and the Office of the Corrections Ombudsman, the Ombudsman, oversight committee members, or office staff become confidential and exempt from the constitutional right of public-records access.