Section 47.30.845. Confidential records.

Information and records obtained in the course of a screening investigation, evaluation, examination, or treatment are confidential and are not public records, except as the requirements of a hearing under AS 47.30.660 - 47.30.915 may necessitate a different procedure. Information and records may be copied and disclosed under regulations established by the department only to
        (1) a physician or a provider of health, mental health, or social and welfare services involved in caring for, treating, or rehabilitating the patient;
        (2) the patient or an individual to whom the patient has given written consent to have information disclosed;
        (3) a person authorized by a court order;
        (4) a person doing research or maintaining health statistics if the anonymity of the patient is assured and the facility recognizes the project as a bona fide research or statistical undertaking;
        (5) the Department of Corrections in a case in which a prisoner confined to the state prison is a patient in the state hospital on authorized transfer either by voluntary admission or by court order;
        (6) a governmental or law enforcement agency when necessary to secure the return of a patient who is on unauthorized absence from a facility where the patient was undergoing evaluation or treatment;
        (7) a law enforcement agency when there is substantiated concern over imminent danger to the community by a presumed mentally ill person;
        (8) the department in a case in which services provided under AS 47.30.660 - 47.30.915 are paid for, in whole or in part, by the department or in which a person has applied for or has received assistance from the department for those services;
        (9) the Department of Public Safety as provided in AS 47.30.907; information provided under this paragraph may not include diagnostic or clinical information regarding a patient.

Authorities

47.30.907

Notes

Implemented As

7 AAC 72.150
7 AAC 78.220

References

7 AAC 72.150
AS 47.30.907 Report to Department of Public Safety.

History

(Sec. 1 ch 84 SLA 1981; am Sec. 25 ch 142 SLA 1984; am E.O. No. 55, Sec. 44 (1984); am Sec. 4 ch 74 SLA 2001; am Sec. 2 ch 73 SLA 2014)