(a) No present or former public employee or official shall disclose or use, without appropriate authorization, any information acquired by him or her in the course of his or her official duties which has been clearly designated to him or her as confidential when such confidential designation is warranted because of the status of the proceedings or the circumstances under which the information was received and preserving its confidentiality is necessary to the proper conduct of government business.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of disclosing confidential information, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 88-23, passed 3-14-1988)