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Authority: AS 47.06.010 AS 47.06.080 AS 47.17.040

AS 47.06.040 AS 47.10.093

AS 47.06.070 AS 47.14.010 Editor’s note: Effective July 1, 2022, Executive Order 121 split the former Department of Health and Social Services into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services. As of Register 242 (July 2022), the regulations attorney made conforming technical revisions under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 7 AAC 54.040 to add references to AS 47.06.010, 47.06.040, 47.06.070, and 47.06.080. The regulations attorney deleted references to AS 47.05.010, 47.05.015, 47.05.020, 47.05.030, and 47.05.040. 7 AAC 54.050. Disclosure of child protection information at client’s request. Upon receipt of written authorization from

(1) an emancipated minor or an adult who was once a child client, the department will disclose the requested child protection information concerning the services provided by the department to the child client, except that the emancipated minor or adult may not authorize disclosure of information acquired while the child client was the subject of a child-in-need-of-aid petition or was a ward of the state;

(2) the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child client of the department, the department will disclose requested child protection information concerning that child to the parent’s, guardian’s or custodian’s designee, except that

(A) the parent, guardian, or custodian may not authorize disclosure of information acquired while the child was the subject of a child-in-need-of-aid petition or was a ward of the state; and

(B) the parent, guardian, or custodian may not, over the objections of the child, authorize disclosure of information that infringes on the right of privacy of the child. (Eff. 5/15/83, Register 86; am 10/14/2005, Register 176) Statutory Authority: