§1213 . Confidentiality

(a) Counseling

All counseling shall be strictly confidential except that the Office and the employee may agree to notify the head of the employing office of the allegations.

(b) Mediation

All mediation shall be strictly confidential.

(c) Hearings

Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the hearings, deliberations, and decisions of the hearing board and the Select Committee on Ethics shall be confidential.

(d) Final decision of Select Committee on Ethics

The final decision of the Select Committee on Ethics under section 1208 of this title shall be made public if the decision is in favor of the complaining Senate employee or if the decision reverses a decision of the hearing board which had been in favor of the employee. The Select Committee on Ethics may decide to release any other decision at its discretion. In the absence of a proceeding under section 1208 of this title, a decision of the hearing board that is favorable to the employee shall be made public.

(e) Release of records for judicial review

The records and decisions of hearing boards, and the decisions of the Select Committee on Ethics, may be made public if required for the purpose of judicial review under section 1209 of this title.

( Pub. L. 102–166, title III, §313, Nov. 21, 1991, 105 Stat. 1095 .)

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in section 60m of this title.