Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 43A-2-224: Collection of information for administrative purposes -

Confidentiality.

A. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

shall have the authority to collect information sufficient to meet

the administration’s needs related to oversight, management,

evaluation, performance improvement and auditing of mental health,

and substance abuse services and combating and preventing mental

illness and substance abuse.

B. The individual forms, computer tapes and other forms of data

collected by and furnished to the Department shall be confidential

and shall not be public records as defined in the Oklahoma Open

Records Act.

Except as otherwise provided by state and federal

confidentiality laws, identifying information shall not be disclosed

and shall not be used for any public purpose other than the creation

and maintenance of anonymous datasets for statistical reporting and

data analysis.