{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-62a-17","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 2A:62A-17","heading":"Court order required for certain disclosures.","body":"2.\tWhen a duty to warn and protect arises from the receipt of a privileged communication from a patient in a drug or alcohol abuse program governed by federal law, a licensed practitioner of psychology, psychiatry, medicine, nursing, clinical social work or marriage and family therapy may be required to obtain a court order authorizing disclosure prior to disclosure of information about the patient including the patient's threat of violence, in accordance with 42 U.S.C. s. 290dd-3 and 42 U.S.C. s. 290ee-3 and regulations promulgated thereunder.\nL.1991, c.270, s.2; amended 2018, c.34, s.2.","path":["TITLE 2A ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"6266694c89b02e0b44ade0c257ad05e7fad3da7478cd2d6a20515a6775be49cb","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-62a-16","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-62a-18"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}