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COMPLIANCE WITH OPEN MEETING LAW -- EXECUTIVE SESSIONS
AUTHORIZED -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDS. (1) All meetings of the custody
review board of the Idaho department of juvenile corrections shall be held in
accordance with the open meeting law as provided in chapter 23, title 67,
Idaho Code, provided however:
(a) Deliberations and decisions of the board concerning whether or not a
juvenile shall be held in custody of the Idaho department of juvenile
corrections for an extended period of time past his or her nineteenth
birthday may be made in executive session; and
(b) Votes of individual members in custody decisions shall not be made
public, provided that the board shall maintain a record of the votes of
the individual members as required in subsection (2) of this section.
(2) A written record of the vote to retain the juvenile in custody for an
extended period of time by each board member in each case reviewed by that
member shall be produced by the board. Such record shall be kept confidential
and privileged from disclosure, provided the record shall be made available
upon request to the governor, the chairman of the senate judiciary and rules
committee and the chairman of the house of representatives judiciary, rules
and administration committee for all lawful purposes.
(3) A board member or employee of the Idaho department of juvenile
corrections who distributes to any person not specifically listed in this
section any hearing information or records that are legally required to be
kept confidential shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(4) Nothing contained in this section shall prevent any person from
obtaining the results of any action by the board or director of the Idaho
department of juvenile corrections without reference to the manner in which
any member voted, and the board shall make such information public unless
doing so would violate public records laws.
(5) Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the director,
designated staff of the director, the governor, the chairman of the senate
judiciary and rules committee or the chairman of the house of representatives
judiciary, rules and administration committee from attending any meeting,
including any executive session, of the custody review board.

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