{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-148e.215","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 148E.215","heading":"RESPONSIBILITIES TO CLIENTS.","body":"Subdivision 1. Responsibility to clients.\nA social worker's primary professional responsibility is to the client. A social worker must respect the client's interests, including the interest in self-determination, except when required to do otherwise by law.\nSubd. 2. Nondiscrimination.\nA social worker must not discriminate against a client, intern, student, or supervisee or in providing services to a client, intern, or supervisee on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, color, national origin, religion, illness, disability, political affiliation, or social or economic status.\nSubd. 3. Research.\nWhen undertaking research activities, a social worker must use accepted protocols for the protection of human subjects, including (1) establishing appropriate safeguards to protect the subject's vulnerability, and (2) obtaining the subjects' informed consent.","path":["HEALTH","CHAPTER 148E. BOARD OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/148E.215","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:34Z","sha256":"4e09ba18974d1e76c942b0e79c209557d62196f9e3b27811eebba887df07a125","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-148e.210","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-148e.220"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}