Standards and procedures to ensure that all records of a driving school relating to the physical or mental condition of any student are confidential, except to the department.
At any departmental hearing, the following evidence may be heard as it relates to ability of licensee to safely operate a motor vehicle if the prospective licensee gives consent: physician and surgeon reports, and hospital records.
Court abstracts of arrest and conviction for operating vehicles while impaired shall contain blood alcohol results, and be held confidentially pursuant to Vehicle Code 1808.5. All information is confidential and may not be disclosed except for research or statistical purposes with identifying information withheld.
Unless disclosure of records is prohibited by law or designated as confidential, all DMV records pertaining to the registration of vehicles, driver's license applications, conviction abstracts, and accident reports shall be open to public inspection. All abstracts of accident reports must be made available to law enforcement agencies and courts.
DMV records relating to physical or mental conditions of persons, or convictions implicating controlled substances not arising out of circumstances involving a motor vehicle are confidential, and not subject to the general public inspection provisions of 1808. An exception is made for release of physician's reports supporting an application for disabled person's parking privilege.
Unless an applicant's disability is readily observable and uncontested, a certificate signed by an authorized health care practitioner attesting to the disability must be submitted to the department before a distinguishing placard is issued to a disable person or veteran. The certifying health care practitioner must retain information supporting the certificate and make such information available for inspection by the Medical Board upon request by the department.
Unless an applicant's disability is readily observable and uncontested, a certificate signed by an authorized health care practitioner attesting to the disability must be submitted to the department before a special license plate is issued to a disabled person or veteran. The certifying health care practitioner must retain information supporting the certificate and make such information available for inspection by the Medical Board upon request by the department.
Information contained in a physician's certificate submitted to show the disability of the individual issued special license plates may be disclosed if requested by local law enforcement agencies or other local or state parking enforcement agencies. Such information shall not be disclosed to private or third-party parking citation processing agency. If there is a local review board any findings made by them may be disclosed to the department or other appropriate authorities for further review.
