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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-1109" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="11">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this section, all information and records acquired by a local team in the exercise of its purpose and duties under this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Are confidential;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Are exempt from disclosure under the Public Information Act;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Are not subject to discovery and may not be introduced as evidence in any proceeding; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>May be disclosed only as necessary to carry out the local team’s purpose and duties.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Mental health records are subject to the additional limitations under § 4–307 of this article for disclosure of a medical record developed primarily in connection with the provision of mental health services.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Substance abuse treatment records are subject to any additional limitations for disclosure or redisclosure of a medical record developed in connection with the provision of substance abuse treatment services under State law, 42 U.S.C. § 290dd–2, or 42 C.F.R. Part 2.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Statistical compilations of data that do not contain any information that would allow the identification of any person to be ascertained are public records.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Reports of a local team that do not contain any personally identifiable information are public records.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Except as necessary to carry out a local team’s purpose and duties, members of a local team and persons attending a local team meeting may not disclose:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any proceeding at a nonpublic meeting under § 5–1108 of this subtitle; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any information that may not be disclosed under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Members of a local team, persons attending a local team meeting, and persons who present information to a local team may not be questioned in any civil or criminal proceeding about information presented in or opinions formed as a result of a meeting.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection does not prohibit a person from testifying to information that is obtained independently of a local team or that is public information.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, information, documents, or records of a local team are not subject to subpoena, discovery, or introduction into evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Information, documents, or records otherwise available from other sources are not immune from subpoena, discovery, or introduction into evidence through those sources solely because they were presented during proceedings of a local team or are maintained by a local team.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment not exceeding 90 days or both.</text>
  </level>
</section>
