(a) The statements, photographs and fingerprints hereinbefore provided for shall not be open to inspection by the public, or by any person other than a regularly employed peace or law enforcement officer. Any such photograph, or duplicates thereof, may be exhibited to persons other than peace officers of the City for the purpose of assisting in identifying perpetrators of any crime. Copies of said statements, photographs and fingerprints may be transmitted to the sheriff of any county of the State of California, to the head of any organized police department of any municipality in said state, or to the head of any department of the State of California engaging in the enforcement of any criminal law of this state, or to the head of any federal law enforcement agency, or to any sheriff or chief of police of a municipality, or to the head of any other law-enforcement agency of any state in any state or territory outside the State of California, when request is made in writing by such sheriff or other head of a law-enforcement agency asking for the record of a certain person named therein, or for the record of a person whose photograph or fingerprints reasonably correspond with Photographs or fingerprints submitted with such request, and stating that such record is deemed necessary for the use of such law enforcement officer or agency in or concerning the investigation of any crime, or any person who is accused of committing a crime, or any crime which is reported to have been committed, and further stating that the record will be used only for such purpose.
(b) Any police officer or other employee of the Police Department who discloses to any person any information contained in any statement required to be filed under the provisions of Sections 52.38 to 52.43 inclusive, otherwise than in the regular course of their duties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) Nothing contained in Sections 52.38 to 52.43 inclusive, shall prevent the Chief of Police from furnishing to the sheriff of any county, the chief of police of any municipality, or the head of any other law-enforcing agency which maintains any system of registration of convicted persons copies of the statements required to be filed under the provisions of Sections 52.38 to 52.43 inclusive, together with photographs and fingerprints of persons making such statements when and if such sheriff, chief of police, or other head of a law-enforcing agency furnishes to the Chief of Police of this City copies of statements, photographs and fingerprints procured by that sheriff, chief of police, or other head of a law-enforcing agency, and it is hereby made the duty of such Chief of Police to arrange for the exchange of such information.
(d) Any police officer or employee of the Police Department may, any other provisions herein notwithstanding, furnish to persons other than peace officers, photographs, fingerprints, descriptions and other data relative to persons registered as convicted persons, as defined by Sec. 52.38(d)1 of this code, for the purpose of furnishing the information required by Sec. 41.11.2 of this code, or for the purpose of securing and effecting the enforcement of said section; and the furnishing of such information, pictures or fingerprints shall be within the regular course of the officer’s or employee’s duties.