46-461. Multidisciplinary adult protection team; duties; confidentiality; definition

A. Adult protective services may establish a multidisciplinary adult protection team consisting of employees of the adult protective services program, the county attorney or the county attorney's designees and representatives of law enforcement, behavioral health, domestic violence and sexual assault or other appropriate human service agencies. Representatives from local tribal governments and adult disability and advocate groups may be added to the multidisciplinary adult protection team.

B. The multidisciplinary adult protection team may provide public and professional education and develop resources for prevention, intervention and treatment to better enable the department to carry out its adult protection functions and to meet the community's needs for adult protection services.

C. Adult protective services may make available to members of the multidisciplinary adult protection team all information or records that are necessary for the official duties without the designation of the client's name unless the client's name is required for the official purposes. The case information received by members of the multidisciplinary adult protection team shall be maintained as confidential unless a consent to release has been given pursuant to this section or pursuant to a court order in this state or another state.  Any member of the multidisciplinary adult protection team may share information that is acquired in the team member's professional capacity with other members of the multidisciplinary adult protection team to assist the multidisciplinary adult protection team in its function.

D. Case consultation may be performed by a committee of the team consisting of the team members representing social services, law enforcement, the county attorney, health care and persons directly involved in an individual case as determined by the case consultation committee.

E. A person to whom information is released pursuant to this section is prohibited from using or releasing the information except in the proper performance of the person's official duties unless a consent to release has been given pursuant to this section or pursuant to a court order or a grand jury subpoena.

F. For the purposes of this section, "case consultation" means a case review process that results in recommendations about services to be provided to an identified adult and family.