{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-47.30.845","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 47.30.845","heading":"Confidential records.","body":"Information and records obtained in the course of a screening investigation, evaluation, examination, or treatment are confidential and are not public records, except as the requirements of a hearing under AS 47.30.660 — 47.30.915 may necessitate a different procedure. Information and records may be copied and disclosed under regulations established by the department only to\n(1) a physician or a provider of health, mental health, or social and welfare services involved in caring for, treating, or rehabilitating the patient;\n(2) the patient or an individual to whom the patient has given written consent to have information disclosed;\n(3) a person authorized by a court order;\n(4) a person doing research or maintaining health statistics if the anonymity of the patient is assured and the facility recognizes the project as a bona fide research or statistical undertaking;\n(5) the Department of Corrections in a case in which a prisoner confined to the state prison is a patient in the state hospital on authorized transfer either by voluntary admission or by court order;\n(6) a governmental or law enforcement agency when necessary to secure the return of a patient who is on unauthorized absence from a facility where the patient was undergoing evaluation or treatment;\n(7) a law enforcement agency when there is substantiated concern over imminent danger to the community by a presumed mentally ill person;\n(8) the department in a case in which services provided under AS 47.30.660 — 47.30.915 are paid for, in whole or in part, by the department or in which a person has applied for or has received assistance from the department for those services;\n(9) the Department of Public Safety as provided in AS 47.30.907;\ninformation provided under this paragraph may not include diagnostic or clinical information regarding a patient;\n(10) the Department of Law as provided in AS 47.30.727.","path":["Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions.","Chapter 30. Mental Health.","Article 8. Patient Rights."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#47.30.845","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:19:52Z","sha256":"61eba88dbb887c45fda2ec582c20e05d19c437d31c9080d1ff77e062748b6f08","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-47.30.840","next":"us-ak/as-47.30.847"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}