Section 23-5-7 - Records for identification of prisoners--Filing and preserving in departmentor institution--Restrictions as to use.

23-5-7. Records for identification of prisoners--Filing and preserving in department or institution--Restrictions as to use. All photographs, impressions, measurements, descriptions, or records including confidential criminal investigative information, taken or made as provided for in § 23-5-6 shall be filed and preserved by the department or institution where made or taken and shall not be published, transferred, or circulated outside such department or institutions, nor exhibited to the public or any person or persons except duly authorized law enforcement officers unless the subject of such photograph, measurement, description, or other record becomes a fugitive from justice, or escapes from a penal institution. However, this section shall not apply to the release of information allowed pursuant to § 24-2-20.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 34.1614; SL 2001, ch 118, § 1.