(a) Employee personnel files shall include but are not limited to confidential documents such as the employee’s performance evaluations and disciplinary action reports.

(b) Access to these files by other than the borough manager, legal counsel, and the employee’s department head shall not be allowed without the prior approval of both the borough manager and the employee. The confidential documents referred to in this subsection are declared to be private and protected by Article I, Sections 14 and 22 of the Constitution of the State of Alaska, Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution of the United States of America, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The personnel file is maintained by management. Employees are not entitled to place or remove material in their personnel file unless specifically allowed by policy, borough code, or a collective bargaining agreement. [Ord. No. 1807, §8, 7-18-16; Ord. No. 956B, §1, 5-1-95. Code 1974 §30.30.042.]