IC 16-49-3-8: Meetings open; executive sessions; confidentiality statements

Sec. 8. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), meetings of a local child fatality review team are open to the public.

(b) Meetings of a local child fatality review team that involve confidential records or identifying information regarding the death of a child that is confidential under state or federal law must be held as executive sessions.

(c) If an executive session is held under subsection (b), each invitee who:

(1) attends a meeting of the local child fatality review team; and

(2) is not a member of the local child fatality review team;

shall sign a confidentiality statement prepared by the state child fatality review coordinator under IC 16-49-5-2. The chairperson of the local child fatality review team shall keep all confidentiality statements signed under this subsection.