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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 476
BY SENATOR N. GAUTREAUX
PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECT DEPT. Reduces the length of time the Department of Public
Safety and Corrections is required to retain certain records. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 44:36(D), relative to public records; to provide relative to public2
bodies; to reduce the time required for the Department of Public Safety and3
Corrections to retain records regarding adult offenders; and to provide for related4
matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 44:36(D) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 7
ยง36. Preservation of records8
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D. All existing records or records hereafter accumulated by the Department10
of Public Safety and Corrections, Correction Services corrections services,11
pertaining to any adult offender shall be retained and may not be destroyed until12
after ten six years from the date the full term sentence imposed upon such offender13
expires, or six years from the date of death of the offender, whichever occurs14
first.15
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Heyward Jeffers.
DIGEST
Present law provides that all DPS&C records pertaining to any adult offender shall be
retained and may not be destroyed until 10 years from the date the full-term sentence
imposed upon such offender expires.
Proposed law changes present law to require the records be kept for six years from the date
of the full term of the sentence imposed expires, or from the death of the offender, whichever
occurs first.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 44:36(D))