§ 15-19 Confidentiality.
RCNY § 15-19
(a)Documents or verbal information provided to CCRB by the Department or created by CCRB pursuant to the MOU executed on April 2, 2012 shall be considered confidential to the extent provided by New York State Civil Rights Law § 50-a or any other applicable law. CCRB shall not disclose any such document or verbal information to any person, organization or agency without first notifying the Department's Deputy Commissioner, Legal Matters and providing the Deputy Commissioner, Legal Matters a reasonable opportunity to review the proposed disclosure. This restriction on disclosure shall not apply to disclosures to the Deputy Commissioner of Trials, DAO, or the Department's Internal Affairs Bureau.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section, the CCRB and Department may also exchange information pursuant to subdivision (b) of 38 RCNY § 15-12 and 38 RCNY § 15-18 to the extent that the disclosure of such information does not tend to reveal the identity of a party or witness involved in the investigation or prosecution of the substantiated civilian complaint which is the subject matter of the correspondence.
