                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION (§ 37.2-711)

The Department and state facilities may exchange specific information about
individuals who are receiving or who have received services with community
services boards or behavioral health authorities to monitor the delivery,
outcome, and effectiveness of services; however, no publicly available report or
information produced or generated by them shall reveal the identity of any
individual who is receiving or who has received services. Publicly available
information shall be designed to prevent persons from being able to gain access
to combinations of characteristic data elements about individuals who are
receiving or who have received services that reasonably could be expected to
reveal the identity of any individual. In order to collect unduplicated
information, the Department, subject to all regulations adopted by the Board or
by agencies of the United States government that govern confidentiality of
information about individuals who are receiving or who have received services,
may require that the individuals disclose or furnish their social security
numbers.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 87, § 37.1-98.2; 1999, c. 764; 2005, c. 716; 2012, cc. 476,
507.