Title 207--JUDICIAL CONDUCT PART IV. COURT OF JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE [207 PA. CODE CH. 21] Internal Operating Procedures of the Court of Judicial Discipline; Doc. No. 1 JD 94 [36 Pa.B. 1213] Order Per Curiam:
And Now, this 28th day of February, 2006, the Court, pursuant to Article 5, Section 18(b)(4) of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, having adopted an amendment to Section 109 of the Internal Operating Procedures, as more specifically hereinafter set forth, It Is Hereby Ordered:
That Section 109 of the Internal Operating Procedures shall become effective immediately.
Annex A TITLE 207. JUDICIAL CONDUCT PART IV. COURT OF JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE ARTICLE IV. INTERNAL OPERATING PROCEDURES CHAPTER 21. INTERNAL OPERATING PROCEDURES GENERAL PROVISIONS § 109. Confidentiality.
(A) The amendments of 1993 to Article V, § 18 of the Pennsylvania Constitution establishing this Court provide that this Court shall be a court of record, that formal charges filed with the Court shall be a matter of public record, and that all hearings conducted by the Court shall be public proceedings. Accordingly, all documents filed of record with this Court pursuant to our Rules of Procedure shall be available for public inspection upon reasonable notice to the Clerk of the Court. Copies of documents shall be provided in accordance with C.J.D.R.P. No. 112.
All other documents, such as, for example, internal memoranda, are confidential. Members have the responsibility to safeguard the confidentiality of such documents. This responsibility shall continue after a member completes his term or leaves the Court for any reason.
(B) All members of the Court, staff employees and any contractual employees shall at all times maintain strict confidentiality concerning proceedings before the Court, and shall refrain from discussing with persons not a member or employee of the Court the substance of deliberations concerning any matter. This provision ap-plies to all matters involving the deliberative process regardless of whether the matter still is pending or has already been decided.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-418. Filed for public inspection March 17, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]
