168-M - Review.

§  168-m.  Review.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law to the  contrary,  any  state  or  local  correctional  facility,  hospital   or  institution,   district  attorney,  law  enforcement  agency,  probation  department, division of parole, court or child protective  agency  shall  forward  relevant  information  pertaining  to  a  sex  offender  to  be  discharged, paroled, released to post-release supervision or released to  the board for review no later than one hundred twenty days prior to  the  release  or  discharge  and  the  board  shall  make  recommendations as  provided in subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-eight-l of this  article within sixty days of receipt of the information. Information may  include but may not be limited to all or a portion of the  arrest  file,  prosecutor's  file,  probation  or  parole  file, child protective file,  court file, commitment file, medical file and treatment file  pertaining  to  such  person.  Such person shall be permitted to submit to the board  any information relevant to the review.  Upon  application  of  the  sex  offender  or  the district attorney, the court shall seal any portion of  the board's file pertaining to the sex offender which contains  material  that  is confidential under any state or federal law; provided, however,  that in any subsequent proceedings in which the sex offender who is  the  subject  of the sealed record is a party and which requires the board to  provide a recommendation to the court pursuant  to  this  article,  such  sealed  record  shall  be  available  to  the sex offender, the district  attorney, the court and the attorney general where the attorney  general  is a party, or represents a party, in the proceeding.