Bill Text: MN SF1455 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Detention and corrections data access requirement for domestic fatality review teams

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-02 - Second reading [SF1455 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2013-SF1455-Engrossed.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to public safety; providing access to detention and corrections data for
1.3domestic fatality review teams;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section
1.4611A.203, subdivision 4.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 611A.203, subdivision 4, is amended to
1.7read:
1.8    Subd. 4. Duties; access to data. (a) The domestic fatality review team shall collect,
1.9review, and analyze death certificates and death data, including investigative reports,
1.10medical and counseling records, victim service records, employment records, child abuse
1.11reports, or other information concerning domestic violence deaths, survivor interviews
1.12and surveys, and other information deemed by the team as necessary and appropriate
1.13concerning the causes and manner of domestic violence deaths.
1.14    (b) The review team has access to the following not public data, as defined in
1.15section 13.02, subdivision 8a, relating to a case being reviewed by the team: inactive
1.16law enforcement investigative data under section 13.82; autopsy records and coroner or
1.17medical examiner investigative data under section 13.83; hospital, public health, or other
1.18medical records of the victim under section 13.384; records under section 13.46, created
1.19by social service agencies that provided services to the victim, the alleged perpetrator, or
1.20another victim who experienced or was threatened with domestic abuse by the perpetrator;
1.21and child maltreatment records under section 626.556, relating to the victim or a family or
1.22household member of the victim. Access to medical records under this paragraph also
1.23includes records governed by sections 144.291 to 144.298. The review team has access to
1.24corrections and detention data as provided in section 13.85.
2.1    (c) As part of any review, the domestic fatality review team may compel the
2.2production of other records by applying to the district court for a subpoena, which will be
2.3effective throughout the state according to the Rules of Civil Procedure.
2.4EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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