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 Alaska Stat. § 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;
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 47.30.845

  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(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 Alaska Stat. § 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 Alaska Stat. § 47.30.907; information provided under this paragraph may not include diagnostic or clinical information regarding a patient.
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