(A) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, an individual, public children services agency, private child placing agency, agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, a law enforcement agency, or another public or private entity that provided services to a pregnant woman whose fetus died or an infant who died if the death is being reviewed by a fetal-infant mortality review board shall submit to the board copies of any record it possesses that the board requests. These records may include maternal health records. In addition, such an individual or entity may make available to the board additional information, documents, or reports that could be useful to the board's investigation.
(B) No person, entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information regarding a fetal death or death of an infant to a fetal-infant mortality review board while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending, unless the prosecuting attorney has agreed pursuant to division (B) of section 3707.71 of the Revised Code to allow review of the death.
(C) A family member of the deceased may decline to participate in an interview as part of the review process. In that case, the review shall continue without the family member's participation.
Added by 133rd General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 166, §101.01, eff. 10/17/2019.
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