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entltloyee's personnel file. (d) The County Human Resources Director and County Attorney may examine all poetions of an employee's personnel file. (e) By order of a court of competent jurisdiction, any person may examine all material in the employee's personnel file. (f) An official of an agency of the State or federal government, or any political subdivision of the State, may inspect any portion of a personnel file when such information is deemed by the County Manager to be necessary and essential to the pursuance of a proper function of the inspecting agency, but no information shall be divulged for the purpose of assisting in a criminal p-•osecution of the employee or for the purpose of assisting in an investigation of the employee's tax liability. (g) Each individual requesting access to confidential information will be required to submit satisfactory proof of identity. Section 4. Records of Former Employees The provisions for access to records apply to former employees as they apply to present employees. Section 5. Remedies of IJmployees Objecting to Material in File ~+reEmployees who objects to material in #is-their personnel file may have •~'°°° ~••'•'°'~'° a statement relating to the material he-considersed te-be-inaccurate or misleading placed in the file. The employee may seek the removal of such material in accordance with established grievance procedures. Section 6. Penalh• for Permittine Access to Confidential File by Unauthorized Person 6:~-NCGS 153A-98 provides that any public official or employee who knowingly and willfully permits any person to have access to any confidential information contained in an employee personnel file, except as expressly authorized by the designated custodian, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in an amount not to exceed $500. Section 7. Penalh• for Examining attdfor couyin~ Confidential Material Without Authorization 63-NCGS 153A-98 provides that any person, not specifically autha•ized to have access to a personnel file designated as confidential, who shall knowingly and willfully examine in its official filing place, remove or copy any portion of a confidential personnel file shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in the discretion of the court but not in excess of ~e-ht+t-c~fed-delluu+sf$398:88) $500. Section 8. Destruction of Records Regulated No public official may destroy, sell, loan, or otherwise dispose of any public record, except in accordance with 6~: NCGS 121-5, without the consent of the State Department of Cultural Resources. Whoever unlawfiilly removes a public record from the office where it is usually kept, or whoever alters, defaces, nurtilates or destroys it will be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction will be fined not less than t~~tt-cellars{-$-I-A:BA) $10 nor more than f+ve-hi+ttdred-deflr",0~88}- $500 as provided in G.S. 132-3. 54 Attachment number 3 F-5 Page 182 of 362