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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 23:01:30+00:00

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The regulation also provides that certain parties may access child abuse records or reports.53 These parties include agencies receiving and investigating child abuse reports, a court, a grand jury, an agency investigating a report, a person legally able to place a child in protective custody, a physician suspecting abuse, an agency authorized to “diagnose, care for, treat, or supervise a child who is the subject of a report,”54 a subject of a report, a child named in the report, a government official responsible for overseeing the child protective services, and persons involved in bona fide research.55 These individuals and entities included in the federal regulation form the baseline for the comparison and analysis of the fifty states’ statutes in the following section.
the discretion of the courts or the child-welfare agency officials.
This Part of the Article will compare the states’ statutes through a discussion of the categories of parties enumerated by each of the states. First, Section A will discuss the states that guarantee confidentiality using a broad, general statement of confidentiality. Section B will then discuss the state laws that specifically grant access to the parties defined in the federal regulation. Finally, Section C will discuss parties that states have added under the discretion allowed by the federal laws.
50 See 45 C.F.R. § 1340.14 (2014).
51 Id. § 1340.14( i)(1).
52 Id. § 1340.14( i)(3).
53 Id. § 1340.14( i)(2).
55 Id. § 1340.14( i)(2)( i)-(xi).
56 CHILD WELFARE INFO. GA TE WA Y, U.S. DEP’T HEA TH & HUMAN SERVS., DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDEN TIAL CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT RECORDS 2 (2013), available at https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/confide.pdf#Page=2&view=XYZ.
57 42 U.S.C.A. § 5106a (West 2014).
58 45 C.F.R. § 1340.14( i)(2).

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