Local Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team; Immunity

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Sec. 17. Members of a local domestic violence fatality review team and individuals who attend a meeting of a local domestic violence fatality review team as invitees of the chairperson:

(1) may discuss among themselves confidential matters that are before the local domestic violence fatality review team;

(2) are bound by all applicable laws regarding the confidentiality of matters reviewed by the local domestic violence fatality review team; and

(3) except when acting:

(A) with malice;

(B) in bad faith; or

(C) with gross negligence;

are immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be imposed as a result of communicating among themselves about confidential matters that are before the local domestic violence fatality review team.

As added by P.L.258-2017, SEC.10.


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