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former chair of this Board, were you aware that those things —that those petitions and <br />things of that nature are to remain confidential? <br />JOSEPH: No, sir, I wasn't. <br />CHAIR: Okay. <br />LUM: I wonder, though, John, if that ruling of confidentiality only refers to us as Board <br />members and that we really cannot control the confidentiality of the petitioner. I think <br />that the rule says— <br />CHAIR: Do we (inaudible)— <br />L UM: It says the Board— <br />CHAIR: - -I think it's all communications and petitions until it's presented to the Board, <br />if I'm not mistaken. <br />LUM: It's Code of Ethics number 90, I think <br />CHAIR: - -4.13— <br />HEEL Y.- If I may, Chair— <br />CHAIR: - -Yeah, go ahead— <br />HEEL Y.• - -Just to quote your rules. Rule 4.13, Confidentiality, states in subsection a: <br />"All records, reports, documents, exhibits and other evidence received by the Board shall <br />be held in confidence, and no information as to the contents thereof shall be disclosed <br />unless such items are presented and received by the Board at a hearing or meeting that is <br />open to the public. " <br />CHAIR: So they're to remain —if I interpret it correctly, they're supposed to remain <br />confidential until they're presented to the Board in a meeting. <br />P <br />HEEL Y.- Or the Board 's- <br />LUM: - -But I still think it's only when it's received by us, so 1 don't think that we have <br />control over the person who files a petition and would make that— <br />CHAIR: Okay. <br />LUM: Yeah, I really looked at that, because I was surprised— <br />CHAIR: - -Well, regardless, you felt it necessary to share with Hunter Bishop the nature <br />of your petition? <br />JOSEPH.- It was Mr. Bishop that more or less instigated this whole issue- <br />12 <br />