MI SB1491

Amends probation officer confidentiality provisions to permit designated representatives of private vendors operating youth correctional facilities to access records, reports, and case histories pertaining to prisoners assigned to those facilities

Maintains existing confidentiality protections for probation records and case histories, which remain privileged communications not open to public inspection

Preserves access rights for judges, probation officers, the attorney general, auditor general, and law enforcement agencies to probation records and case histories

Maintains the confidential relationship between probation officers and probationers or defendants under investigation

Takes effect December 14, 2010, contingent on enactment of House Bill No. 6389 of the 95th Legislature