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2016 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 9. ABUSE OF CHILDREN
Subchapter III Child Protection Accountability Commission
§ 934. Confidentiality of records related to investigations and reviews.

Universal Citation:
16 DE Code § 934 (2016)
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(a) The records of the Commission and its staff, including original documents and documents produced in the investigation and review process with regard to the facts and circumstances of each death or near death, shall be confidential and shall not be released to any person except as expressly provided by this subchapter. Such records shall be used by the Commission and its staff only in the exercise of the proper functions of the Commission and its staff and shall not be public records and shall not be available for Court subpoena or subject to discovery. Except where constitutional provisions require otherwise, statements, records, or information shall not be subject to any statute or rule that would require those statements, records, or information to be disclosed in the course of a criminal trial or associated discovery. Aggregate statistical data compiled by the Commission or its staff, however, may be released at the discretion of the Commission or its staff.

(b) No person in attendance at a meeting of the Commission shall be required to testify as to what transpired at a meeting.

80 Del. Laws, c. 187, § 9.;

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