P.R. Laws tit. 34, § 3023
The Institute shall maintain files of all the cases it investigates as well as of those investigated by the Forensic Pathologists and Coroners, Auxiliary Coroners or the technical personnel of all the districts. Each case shall be filed under the name of the victim, if known, the number of the complaint, if any, of the Puerto Rico Police for the particular incident, the place where the corpse was found and the date of death. In those cases where there has been no death, the case shall be filed under the name of the person charged and under the number of the complaint, if any, of the Puerto Rico Police for the particular incident. An index shall be kept to permit the prompt location of any case at any time. The record of each case of death shall include the original coroner’s report and the protocol of the autopsy or a copy thereof, if it has been performed, and the number of the complaint, if any, of the Puerto Rico Police, about the particular incident. In other cases, the analyses that were performed or copies thereof and the number of the complaint, if any, of the Puerto Rico Police about the particular incident shall be included. The files shall be kept at the Institute, duly protected and safeguarded against theft, fire and their inspection by unauthorized persons.
The inspection of the Institute’s files by attorneys, physicians, and other experts of the parties in any criminal or civil procedure related to cases investigated by the Institute, as well as interviews by the above mentioned persons with the Institute’s professional personnel who intervened in said case, shall be regulated by the Director of the Institute, with due protection of the fundamental rights of the parties, and guaranteeing due process of law.
History —July 24, 1985, No. 13, p. 689, § 23; July 26, 2006, No. 134, § 2.