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DFS urges limited change to confidentiality rules so agencies can coordinate services for families
Summary
The Department of Family Services told the task force it needs narrowly scoped authority to share data with other state and community partners to coordinate care and avoid repeated retelling of trauma by families; previous bills (HB48, SF157) failed and the department asked the task force to consider targeted, accountable changes.
The Department of Family Services told the task force it seeks narrowly tailored changes to confidentiality law so staff can share information with other agencies and providers to connect families to services faster.
"Our most restrictive confidentiality statute, however, does fall within our child welfare space and that child protective space, and that's in title 14," Christie Gordy, senior administrator in DFS's social-services division, told the panel. Gordy said two bills considered in the prior legislative session'House Bill 48 and Senate File 157'did not pass but that…
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