1.    Except as otherwise provided in this section, information obtained from any employing unit or individual pursuant to the administration of the North Dakota unemployment compensation law and determinations as to the benefit rights of any individual must be held confidential and may not be disclosed or be open to public inspection in any    manner revealing the individual’s or employing unit’s identity. Any claimant or claimant’s legal representative must be supplied with information from the records of the unemployment insurance division, to the extent necessary for the proper presentation of the claimant’s claim in any proceeding under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law with respect to the claim.

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2.    Subject to restrictions as the bureau by rule may prescribe, the information may be made available to any agency of this or any other state, or any federal agency, charged with the administration of any unemployment compensation law or the maintenance of a system of public employment offices, or the bureau of internal revenue of the United States department of the treasury, and information obtained in connection with the administration of the employment service may be made available to persons or agencies for purposes appropriate to the operation of a public employment service. Upon a request, the bureau shall furnish to any agency of the United States charged with the administration of public works or assistance through public employment, and may furnish to any state agency similarly charged, the name, address, ordinary occupation, and employment status of each recipient of benefits and the recipient’s rights to further benefits under the North Dakota unemployment compensation law. The bureau may request the comptroller of the currency of the United States to cause an examination of the correctness of any return or report of any national banking association, rendered pursuant to the North Dakota unemployment compensation law, and in connection with the request, may transmit any report or return to the comptroller of the currency of the United States as provided in subsection c of section 3305 of the federal Internal Revenue Code. The bureau shall request and exchange information for purposes of income and eligibility verification to meet the requirements of section 1137 of the Social Security Act. Job service North Dakota may enter into memoranda of understanding with the United States census bureau to furnish unemployment insurance data to the census bureau and for sharing of information with job service North Dakota.

3.    Job service North Dakota may provide workforce safety and insurance, the labor commissioner, the driver’s license division of the department of transportation, the department of health and human services, the department of commerce, the state tax commissioner, and the information technology department for purposes of the statewide longitudinal data system with information obtained pursuant to the administration of the unemployment insurance program, and may enter into interagency agreements with those entities for the exchange of information that will enhance the administration of the unemployment insurance program. Any information furnished pursuant to this subsection or pursuant to interagency agreements authorized by this subsection is to be used only for governmental purposes.

4.    The bureau may provide any state agency or a private entity with the names and addresses of employing units for the purpose of jointly publishing or distributing publications or other information as provided in section 54-06-04.3. Any information so provided may only be used for the purpose of jointly publishing or distributing publications or other information as provided in section 54-06-04.3.

5.    Whenever the bureau obtains information on the activities of a contractor doing business in this state of which officials of the secretary of state, workforce safety and insurance, or the state tax commissioner may be unaware and that may be relevant to duties of those officials, the bureau shall provide any relevant information to those officials for the purpose of administering their duties.

6.    The bureau shall request and exchange information as required of it under federal law with any specified governmental agencies. Any information so provided may be used only for the purpose of administering the duties of such governmental agencies.

7.    The bureau shall enter into a data sharing agreement with the attorney general for the purpose of monitoring individuals who are required to register as sexual offenders or offenders against children. Under such agreement, the bureau may furnish unemployment insurance employee or claimant contact information and the names and addresses of the employers for whom the employee or claimant has worked.

8.    Job service North Dakota may enter an interagency agreement with the department of commerce for the sharing of information obtained pursuant to the administration of the unemployment insurance program, limited to wage and employment number records of employers identified by the department of commerce as having received North Dakota state economic development assistance. Information provided by job service North Dakota under an agreement may be used only for purposes of evaluation by the department of commerce of the compliance with statutory or contractual performance standards established for employers who received North Dakota state economic development assistance. Information received by the department of commerce under this subsection shall remain confidential and may not be divulged except in an aggregate format that does not permit the identification of information of any individual or employer. Any information furnished pursuant to this subsection or pursuant to interagency agreements authorized by this subsection is to be used for governmental purposes.