{"data":{"id":"us-nm/14-3-7.1","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"14-3-7.1","heading":"Access to confidential records.","body":"A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public record deemed by law to be confidential and required by a records retention and disposition schedule to be maintained longer than twenty-five years shall not, after twenty-five years from the date of creation, be confidential and shall be accessible to the public, except:\n(1) personal identification information deemed confidential by law, which shall remain confidential for one hundred years after the date of creation, unless a shorter duration is otherwise required by law;\n(2) records that are confidential pursuant to Section 2-3-13 NMSA 1978, which shall remain confidential for seventy-five years after the date of creation;\n(3) records that are confidential pursuant to Section 18-6-11.1 NMSA 1978; and\n(4) records whose disclosure is prohibited by court action or federal law.\nB. Nothing in this section shall limit or remove the discretion of a records custodian to withhold a public record pursuant to Section 14-2-1 NMSA 1978.","path":["Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths","ARTICLE 3 Public Records"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18514/index.do","current_through":"2025-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"896dffb4035c90f08e9a8280d6211ba3f3fc9b0864c28037593b9a719c69cc17","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/14-3-7","next":"us-nm/14-3-8"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}