Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 66.302

This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 66.302, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.

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§ 66.302. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE NOT AUTHORIZED.

Official statutory text

(a) An individual's identifiable description or a notation of an individual's arrest, detention, indictment, information, or other formal criminal charge and of any disposition of the charge, including sentencing, correctional supervision, and release, that is collected and compiled by the Department of Public Safety or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice from criminal justice agencies and maintained in a central location is not subject to public disclosure except as authorized by federal or state law or regulation.

(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a document maintained by a criminal justice agency that is the source of information collected by the Department of Public Safety or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Each criminal justice agency shall retain the documents described by this subsection.

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