The disclosure of information, whether a charge has been filed
or not, or revealing the contents of any file is prohibited except in the
following circumstances:
(1) If a
final decision per 161-subrule 2.1(10) has been reached, a party or a party's
attorney may, upon showing that a petition appealing the commission action has
been filed, have access to the commission's case file on that
complaint.
(2) If a case has been
approved for public hearing and the letter informing parties of this fact has
been mailed, any party or party's attorney may have access to file information
through prehearing discovery measures provided in 161-subrule 4.2(2).
(3) If a decision rendered by the commission
in a contested case has been appealed, any party or party's attorney may, upon
showing that the decision has been appealed, have access to the commission's
case file on that complaint.
The fact that copies of documents related to or gathered during
an investigation of a complaint are introduced as evidence during the course of
a contested case proceeding does not affect the confidential status of all
other documents within the file which are not introduced as evidence.
(4) If the commission has issued a
right-to-sue letter per subrule 3.9(3), a party or party's attorney may have
access to the commission's case file on that complaint.
(5) Only upon written notification from an
attorney or a party that the attorney represents may the attorney then obtain
access to the commission case file on the same terms as that party.
