Confidentiality

1. records kept in the normal course of buisness

2. investigative report, autopsy report and toxicology report

3. discretion of the medical examiner

1. death investigation report

2. completed autopsy report

3. completed toxicology report

verify a release of a copy of the suicide note to NOK

a year and a day later the ME can release the original suicide note

Non-disclosure information is important to an ongoing investigation

Law enforcement can write a formal document requesting that information may not be released

Effective in October 2003

Governed by federal government

provides privacy and security regulatiosn for medical records and patient information

restricted release of patient information