{"data":{"id":"us-mt/53-21-144","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"53-21-144","heading":"Rights concerning photographs.","body":"(1) A person admitted to a mental health facility may be photographed for the clinical or administrative purposes of the facility. The photographs are confidential. Photographs may be released to a law enforcement agency when needed to aid in the search for a person who has left a facility without authorization from the facility's medical staff and when it is determined that the person is a self-threat or self-danger or a threat or danger to others at the time that the person left the facility. A law enforcement agency may not subsequently release photographs to the public or other persons unless authorized by a court order.\n(2) Other nonmedical photographs may not be taken or used without consent of the patient or, if applicable, the patient's legal guardian or without a court order.","path":["TITLE 53. SOCIAL SERVICES AND INSTITUTIONS","CHAPTER 21. MENTALLY ILL","Part 1. Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0530/chapter_0210/part_0010/section_0440/0530-0210-0010-0440.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:57:24Z","sha256":"2673fdd53bc1559d8f9081ae29d7acab3df0bbcc281f79d2e9d6c9347907c986","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/53-21-143","next":"us-mt/53-21-145"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}