{"data":{"id":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-400.119","jurisdiction":"us-fl","citation":"Fla. Stat. § 400.119","heading":"Confidentiality of records and meetings of risk management and quality assurance committees.","body":"(1) Incident reports filed with the risk manager and administrator of a long-term care facility licensed under this part or part I of chapter 429, notifications of the occurrence of an adverse incident, and adverse incident reports from the facility are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.\n(2)(a) The meetings of an internal risk management and quality assurance committee of a long-term care facility licensed under this part or part I of chapter 429 are exempt from s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution.\n(b) Records of those meetings are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.\n(3)(a) If the Agency for Health Care Administration has a reasonable belief that conduct by a staff member or employee of a facility is criminal activity or grounds for disciplinary action by a regulatory board, the agency may disclose records made confidential and exempt pursuant to this section to the appropriate law enforcement agency or regulatory board.\n(b) Records disclosed to a law enforcement agency remain confidential and exempt until criminal charges are filed.\n(4) Records made confidential and exempt under this section and that are obtained by a regulatory board are not available to the public as part of the record of investigation and prosecution in a disciplinary proceeding made available to the public by the agency or the appropriate regulatory board. However, the agency or the appropriate regulatory board shall make available, upon request by a health care professional against whom probable cause has been found, any such records that form the basis of the determination of probable cause.\nHistory.—s. 1, ch. 2001-44; s. 59, ch. 2002-1; s. 1, ch. 2006-110; s. 25, ch. 2006-197.","path":["CHAPTER 400 NURSING HOMES AND RELATED HEALTH CARE FACILITIES"],"source_url":"https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute\u0026URL=0400-0499/0400/0400.html","current_through":"2026 Florida Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:05:09Z","sha256":"a82af238eb716392915e52e90be7b46e5a2ebac21c39e1775043b325d64d297e","source_id":"us-fl","stale":false,"prev":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-400.1183","next":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-400.121"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}