Except as otherwise provided, no confidential records of the Court maintained
by the probation office, including presentence reports, pretrial services records,
probation records or testimony, shall be disclosed or provided unless a written
application is made to the Court in compliance with the Rules for Disclosure adopted by
the Judicial Conference of the United States in March of 2003. No disclosure shall be
made or testimony provided until an order is entered. However, the probation officer
shall release necessary probation records to other federal, state, county and municipal
law enforcement agencies, as required by 18 U.S.C. § 4042, without petitioning the
Court or obtaining a court order directing the disclosure of those records. The probation
officer shall immediately provide the Court with notice of the disclosure.
When a demand for a disclosure of presentence records, pretrial services
records, probation records or testimony is made to a probation officer by subpoena or
other judicial process, the Chief Probation Officer or Deputy Chief Probation Officer shall
request an order from the sentencing judge . The probation officer shall make no
disclosure until an order is entered.
Videoconference in Criminal Cases
