HB2018: Children's Services Act; information sharing, confidentiality exception.

Legislative Summary

Children's Services Act; information sharing; confidentiality exception. Allows family assessment and planning teams (FAPT) and community policy and management teams (CPMT) to share information with local law enforcement or threat assessment teams established by local school boards if a FAPT or CPMT obtains information from which the team determines that a child poses a threat of violence or physical harm to himself or others. Under current law, all information about specific children and families obtained by FAPT and CPMT members must be kept confidential.