Ark. Code Ann. § 12-12-1115: Prohibition against disclosure

(a) (1) Any person who by virtue of employment or official position or any person contracting to carry out any functions under this subchapter, including any officers, employees, and agents of this contractor who has possession of or access to individually identifiable DNA information contained in the State DNA Data Base or State DNA Data Bank shall not disclose the information in any manner to any person or agency not entitled to receive it, knowing that the person is not entitled to receive it. (2) No person shall obtain individually identifiable DNA information from the data base or the data bank without authorization to do so. (3) In order to maintain the computer system security of the State Crime Laboratory, data base, and data bank program, the computer software, and data-base structures used by the laboratory to implement this subchapter are confidential. (b) Any person who knowingly violates this section is guilty of a Class D felony. Acts 1997, No. 737, § 15; 2003, No. 1470, § 5; 2009, No. 974, § 12.

(a) (1) Any person who by virtue of employment or official position or any person contracting to carry out any functions under this subchapter, including any officers, employees, and agents of this contractor who has possession of or access to individually identifiable DNA information contained in the State DNA Data Base or State DNA Data Bank shall not disclose the information in any manner to any person or agency not entitled to receive it, knowing that the person is not entitled to receive it. (2) No person shall obtain individually identifiable DNA information from the data base or the data bank without authorization to do so. (3) In order to maintain the computer system security of the State Crime Laboratory, data base, and data bank program, the computer software, and data-base structures used by the laboratory to implement this subchapter are confidential.

(1) Any person who by virtue of employment or official position or any person contracting to carry out any functions under this subchapter, including any officers, employees, and agents of this contractor who has possession of or access to individually identifiable DNA information contained in the State DNA Data Base or State DNA Data Bank shall not disclose the information in any manner to any person or agency not entitled to receive it, knowing that the person is not entitled to receive it.

(2) No person shall obtain individually identifiable DNA information from the data base or the data bank without authorization to do so.

(3) In order to maintain the computer system security of the State Crime Laboratory, data base, and data bank program, the computer software, and data-base structures used by the laboratory to implement this subchapter are confidential.

(b) Any person who knowingly violates this section is guilty of a Class D felony.