R547-12. Division of Juvenile Justice Services Classification of Records  


R547-12-1. Authority
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Section 62A-1-111 authorizes the Department of Human Services to adopt administrative rules.


R547-12-2. Division of Juvenile Justice Services Classification of Records
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  (1) The following classification scheme applies to the youth records of the Division of Juvenile Justice Services:

  (a) Quality Service Review Case Studies and Reports are classified as protected information.

  (b) Plethysmograph, psychological, and psychiatric reports are classified as controlled information. Other records produced by the Division of Juvenile Justice Services or its contractors are controlled if the agency reasonably believes that releasing the information in the record would be detrimental to the subject's mental health or to the safety of any individual, or if releasing the information would constitute a violation of normal professional and medical ethics.

  (c) Progress reports, quarterly reports, reports to the Court, Parole Board reports, and correspondence are classified as private information, as are all other records in the case file that originate with the Division.

  (d) Police reports, juvenile court legal and social information, school reports, and all other documents generated by agencies other than Juvenile Justice Services shall retain the classification assigned to them by the agency from which they were received.