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Oklahoma commission adopts new rules for freestanding multidisciplinary teams amid privacy, peer‑review debate
Summary
The Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth voted to adopt rule changes that require annual reviews, expand data collection into a secure database, and allow peer reviews and site visits for freestanding multidisciplinary teams (MDTs). Commissioners debated privacy protections, statutory authority and tribal and district‑attorney concerns before
The Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth approved changes to the rules governing freestanding multidisciplinary child abuse teams after extended discussion about peer reviews, data collection and confidentiality.
Marsha Johnson, OCCY senior staff, told the commission the draft rules standardize annual reviews and site visits for MDTs, incorporate peer reviewers to help assess team functioning, and require teams to enter specified case data into a secure database. She said the rulemaking followed a November notice of rulemaking intent, an extended public comment period and a Jan. 17 public hearing.
The rules would add an annual site‑visit component and permit some site visits to be conducted as peer reviews by trained MDT coordinators from other teams, while keeping an overall annual review process that the commission will receive and approve. Johnson said the data to be collected will include…
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