AI-assisted research summary: Licensees must promptly report suspicious betting-related information to the department, and in some cases to a requesting sports governing body; the department must also investigate, maintain confidentiality rules, and coordinate investigations.
5-1316 - Integrity; reporting prohibited or suspicious conduct; investigations 5-1316. Integrity; reporting prohibited or suspicious conduct; investigations A. All licensees under this chapter shall immediately report to the department and the relevant sports governing body that has requested to receive it any information relating to any of the following: 1. Abnormal betting activity or patterns that may indicate a concern with the integrity of a sports event or events, or any other conduct that corrupts a betting outcome of a sports event or events for purposes of financial gain, including match fixing. 2. Any potential breach of a sports governing body's internal rules and codes of conduct pertaining to event wagering. 3. Conduct that corrupts the betting outcome of event wagering for purposes of financial gain, including match fixing. 4. Suspicious or illegal event wagering activities, including cheating, the use of monies derived from illegal activity, wagers to conceal or launder monies derived from illegal activity, using agents to place wagers or using false identification. B. Licensees shall report to the department, in real time and at the account level, information regarding a bettor, the amount and type of bet, the time the bet was placed, the location of the bet, including the internet protocol address if applicable, the outcome of the bet and records related to subsection A of this section. Information reported under this subsection must be submitted in the form and manner established by the department. C. If a sports governing body has notified the department that real-time information sharing for wagers placed on its sports events is necessary and desirable, licensees shall share the same information with the sports governing body or its designee with respect to wagers on its sports events. Such information may be provided in anonymized form and may be used by a sports governing body solely for integrity purposes. D. The department and licensees shall make commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with investigations conducted by sports governing bodies, including using commercially reasonable efforts to provide or facilitate the provision of betting information for the purposes of investigations. E. The department shall establish a hotline or other method of communication that allows any person to confidentially report to the department information about prohibited conduct. F. The department shall investigate allegations and refer to prosecutorial entities prohibited conduct under this chapter. G. The identity of any reporting person shall remain confidential unless that person authorizes disclosure of the person's identity or until such time as the allegation of prohibited conduct is referred to a prosecutorial entity. H. If the department receives a complaint of prohibited conduct by an athlete, the department shall notify the appropriate sports governing body to review the complaint for appropriate action. I. Notwithstanding any confidentiality provisions of this chapter, the department may provide or facilitate access to information regarding account-level betting information and data files relating to persons placing wagers on notification by a sports governing body of an official investigation being conducted into a person or persons who are prohibited by that body from participating in wagering or who are believed to have taken action that affects the integrity or perceived integrity of the sport it governs. Any information obtained by a sports governing body shall be kept confidential unless the information has been made public through a criminal proceeding or by a court order.