States with Restricted Access to Police Disciplinary Records

Includes: 1) A list of states that are completely confidential regarding transparency of police discipline records and 2) A list of states where records are not completely confidential, but transparency is restricted for a variety of reasons. Prepared by Rebecca Brown, Director of Policy at Innocence Project, for the 2020 State Criminal Justice Network Conference. 

Documents

States that are completely confidential re transparency of police discipline records:
Alaska
Idaho
Oregon
Nevada
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Virginia
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
North Carolina
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Rhode Island
DC

States where transparency is restricted for any number of reasons (e.g. court precedent has made the Right to Know law ambiguous; restricted to only records of severe discipline or termination; general privacy exemptions; etc.):
California
Hawaii
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Indiana
Illinois
Tennessee
Michigan
Kentucky
West Virginia
Vermont
South Carolina
Massachusetts

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