{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-2-1001","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-2-1001","heading":"Attorney General oversight of opioid overdose death","body":"control efforts.\n\nA. The Attorney General shall have the power and duty to:\n\n1. Coordinate and integrate state and local efforts to address\n\noverdose deaths and create a body of information to prevent overdose\n\ndeaths;\n\n2. Conduct case reviews of deaths of persons eighteen (18)\n\nyears of age or older due to licit or illicit opioid use in this\n\nstate;\n\n3. Collect, analyze, and interpret state and local data on\n\nopioid overdose deaths;\n\n4. Develop a state and local database on opioid overdose\n\ndeaths;\n\n5. Improve policies, procedures, and practices within the\n\nagencies in order to prevent fatal opioid overdoses and to serve\n\nvictims of unintentional overdose; and\n\n6. Enter into agreements with other state, local, or private\n\nentities as necessary to carry out the duties under this section,\n\nincluding, but not limited to, conducting joint reviews with the\n\nChild Death Review Board on unintentional overdose cases involving\n\nchild death and child near-death incidents.\n\nB. In carrying out his or her duties and responsibilities, the\n\nAttorney General shall:\n\n1. Promulgate rules, if necessary, establishing criteria for\n\nidentifying cases involving an opioid overdose death subject to\n\nspecific, in-depth review by the Attorney General;\n\n2. Conduct a specific case review of those cases where the\n\ncause of death is or may be related to overdose of opioid drugs;\n\n3. Establish and maintain statistical information related to\n\nopioid overdose deaths including, but not limited to, demographic\n\nand medical diagnostic information;\n\n4. Establish procedures for obtaining initial information\n\nregarding opioid overdose deaths from law enforcement agencies;\n\n5. Review the policies, practices, and procedures of medical\n\nsystems and law enforcement systems and other overdose protection\n\nand prevention systems, and make specific recommendations to those\n\nentities for actions necessary for the improvement of the system;\n\n6. Request and obtain a copy of all records and reports\n\npertaining to an adult whose case is under review including, but not\n\nlimited to:\n\na. the report of the medical examiner,\n\nb. hospital records,\n\nc. school records,\n\nd. court records,\n\ne. prosecutorial records,\n\nf. local, state, and federal law enforcement records\n\nincluding, but not limited to, the Oklahoma State\n\nBureau of Investigation (OSBI) and Oklahoma State\n\nBureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN),\n\ng. fire department records,\n\nh. State Department of Health records, including birth\n\ncertificate records,\n\ni. medical and dental records,\n\nj. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse\n\nServices and other mental health records,\n\nk. emergency medical service records,\n\nl. files of the Department of Human Services, and\n\nm. records in the possession of the Child Death Review\n\nBoard when conducting a joint review in accordance\n\nwith paragraph 6 of subsection A of this section.\n\nConfidential information or records provided to the Attorney General\n\nshall be maintained by the Attorney General in a confidential manner\n\nas otherwise required by state and federal law. Any person damaged\n\nby disclosure of such confidential information by the Attorney\n\nGeneral or any employees or contractors of the Office of the\n\nAttorney General which is not authorized by law may maintain an\n\naction for damages, costs and attorney fees pursuant to The\n\nGovernmental Tort Claims Act;\n\n7. Maintain all confidential information, documents and records\n\nin possession of the Attorney General as confidential and not\n\nsubject to subpoena or discovery in any civil or criminal\n\nproceedings; provided however, information, documents, and records\n\notherwise available from other sources shall not be exempt from\n\nsubpoena or discovery through those sources solely because such\n\ninformation, documents, and records were presented to or reviewed by\n\nthe Attorney General;\n\n8. Conduct reviews of specific cases of opioid overdose deaths\nubpoena or discovery in any civil or criminal\n\nproceedings; provided however, information, documents, and records\n\notherwise available from other sources shall not be exempt from\n\nsubpoena or discovery through those sources solely because such\n\ninformation, documents, and records were presented to or reviewed by\n\nthe Attorney General;\n\n8. Conduct reviews of specific cases of opioid overdose deaths\n\nand request the preparation of additional information and reports as\n\ndetermined to be necessary by the Attorney General including, but\n\nnot limited to, clinical summaries from treating physicians,\n\nchronologies of contact, and second-opinion autopsies;\n\n9. Report to the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the\n\nSenate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives any\n\ninformation and guidance regarding the prevention and protection\n\nsystem to advise on changing trends in overdose rates, substances,\n\nmethods, or any other factor impacting overdose deaths, including\n\nany systemic issue within the medical, law enforcement, or other\n\nrelevant systems discovered by the Attorney General while performing\n\nhis or her duties; and\n\n10. Exercise all incidental powers necessary and proper for the\n\nimplementation and administration of this section.\n\nC. All discussions of individual cases and any writings\n\nproduced by or created for the Attorney General in the course of\n\ndetermining a remedial measure to be recommended by the Attorney\n\nGeneral, as the result of a review of an individual case of an\n\nopioid overdose death, shall be privileged and shall not be\n\nadmissible in evidence in any proceeding.\n\nD. The Attorney General shall submit an annual statistical\n\nreport on the incidence and causes of opioid overdose deaths in this\n\nstate for which the Attorney General has completed his or her review\n\nduring the past calendar year including his or her recommendations,\n\nif any, to the medical and law enforcement system. The Attorney\n\nGeneral shall also prepare and make available to the public, on an\n\nannual basis, a report containing a summary of the activities\n\nrelating to the review of opioid overdose deaths, the extent to\n\nwhich the state medical and law enforcement system is coordinated,\n\nand an evaluation of whether the state is efficiently discharging\n\nits responsibilities to prevent opioid overdose deaths. The report\n\nshall be completed no later than February 1 of the subsequent year.\n\nE. Any entity from which the Attorney General requests records\n\nin accordance with paragraph 6 of subsection B of this section shall\n\nprovide the records to the Attorney General.\n\nF. The Attorney General may assign any of the powers and duties\n\nin this section or in Section 2-1003 of this title to any of the\n\nAttorney General’s assistants or employees.","path":["OK Code","Title 63"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"5c5a8a038ea1c77a911e34963b3423211b2ab0684ef261e4ad339162dcb11cd6","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-142.9a","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-2-1003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}