Criminal legal means of countering the disclosure of information about the safety measures applied to judges, officials of law enforcement and control bodies

Introduction: the article examines the problems of legislative establishment of criminal liability for disclosing information about security measures applied to a judge, an official of a law enforcement or regulatory body and their relatives and concludes that the legislative structure of Art. 311 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation needs improvement. Materials and Methods: in the course of the study, we used regulatory legal acts regulating the application of security measures to individual officials and victims of crimes, as well as scientific works of specialists in the field of criminal law. General scientific and specific scientific research methods were used, which made it possible to generalize and analyze the collected material on the research topic. Results: proposals have been developed to improve the legal framework for countering the disclosure of information about security measures applied to persons subject to state protection. Discussions and conclusions: the conclusion is substantiated that it is necessary to amend the current legislation governing the rules for applying security measures to protected persons and responsibility for violating these rules in order to increase the effectiveness of the criminal law protection of persons in respect of whom security measures are applied.