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Authority: AS 25.20.120 AS 47.06.070 AS 47.14.010
AS 40.25.120 AS 47.06.080 AS 47.17.040
AS 47.06.010 AS 47.10.080
AS 47.06.040 AS 47.10.093 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 54.050 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 54.060. Disclosure of child protection information to a parent of a child. (a) The department will disclose child protection information concerning a child client receiving services, acquired while the child was the subject of a child-in-need-of-aid petition or was a ward of the state, to the parent or guardian upon the parent’s request only
(1) when the information has been procured as part of a court-ordered evaluation program;
(2) when the information is necessary to the parent for the parent’s participation in court-ordered treatment, if the right of privacy of the child is not infringed;
(3) when the information is necessary to allow the parent to exercise residual parental rights, as provided under AS 47.10.084(c); or
(4) when the court has ordered that the information be disclosed. (b) The department will disclose child protection information concerning a child client receiving services, acquired while the child was not the subject of a child-in-need-of-aid petition and was not a ward of the state, to the parent, upon the request of the parent, if the right of privacy of the child is not infringed. (c) Notwithstanding (a) and (b) of this section, confidential information about a child may be released to the child’s parent when necessary to protect the safety of the child. (Eff. 5/15/83, Register 86; am 10/14/2005, Register 176) Statutory Authority: