Same; record keeping required; inspection of records; confidentiality

(a) Each certified batterer intervention program and each holder of a temporary permit issued pursuant to the batterer intervention program certification act shall keep and maintain for a period of two years each book, document, paper, record or other information pertaining to services rendered as a certified batterer intervention program. (b) Regardless of the form or media in which such books, documents, paper, record or other source of information is kept, each book, document, paper, record and other source of information concerning the compliance with the requirements established in the batterer intervention program certification act and the rules and regulations adopted thereunder by each certified batterer intervention program or holder of a temporary permit shall be inspected at least once every certification period by the attorney general. The attorney general may order other or additional inspections as deemed necessary by the attorney general. The attorney general shall at all times be given free access to all such books, documents, papers, records or other sources of information concerning the compliance with the requirements established in the batterer intervention program certification act and the rules and regulations adopted thereunder. (c) Any information or copy thereof obtained by the attorney general pursuant to this section or pursuant to an investigation pursuant to the batterer intervention program certification act shall not be public and shall not be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Kansas open records act, and amendments thereto.