Records and reports

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8-519. Records and reports

A. Each child welfare agency shall keep records regarding the children in its care as the division prescribes and shall furnish to the division, on request, such additional information as the division requires.

B. The department shall provide information necessary for foster care review boards to perform their statutory duties through an automated information exchange. The department and the administrative office of the courts on behalf of the state foster care review board shall enter into a data sharing agreement to govern the parameters of the automated information exchange. On the request of a foster care review board, any record pertaining to a case assigned to such board, kept by the division or a child welfare agency, shall be furnished to the board.

C. All records and information in the possession of the foster care review board regarding children and their parents or relatives shall be deemed confidential and shall be disclosed only pursuant to this chapter or by order of court.

D. A child welfare agency shall furnish a report of each placement or withdrawal of each child to the division.


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