Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB192 Compare Versions

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5	5	April 15, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives MOSES, CALLAHAN, SNYDER,
6	6	O'CONNOR and MURSAU, cosponsored by Senator JAMES. Referred to
7	7	Committee on Local Government.
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9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to amend 48.396 (1), 48.396 (2) (a), 48.78 (2) (a), 48.981 (7) (a) 15.,
11	11	938.396 (1) (a), 938.396 (2) (a) and 938.78 (2) (a); to create 51.30 (4) (b) 29.,
12	12	146.82 (2) (d), 250.22 and 961.385 (2) (cm) 5. of the statutes; relating to:
13	13	fatality review teams and granting rule-making authority.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	This bill establishes fatality review teams under state law. Current law does
16	16	not address fatality review teams, though several types of such teams currently
17	17	exist in Wisconsin based on voluntary efforts primarily organized by counties, with
18	18	state-level technical assistance available for certain types of teams.
19	19	Under the bill, a fatality review team is defined as a multidisciplinary and
20	20	multiagency team reviewing one or more types of death among children or adults
21	21	and developing recommendations to prevent future deaths of similar circumstances.
22	22	The bill generally governs a team[s responsibilities, ability to access certain
23	23	records, confidentiality requirements, and disclosure of information.
24	24	Duties and authority of the Department of Health Services
25	25	Under the bill, the Department of Health Services must establish a fatality
26	26	review program comprised of local fatality review teams established at the option of
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35	35	or a combination of these entities. The bill also authorizes, but does not require,
36	36	DHS to create state fatality review teams.
37	37	The bill requires DHS to perform various duties, in consultation with other
38	38	state agencies as appropriate, such as: 1) facilitate local team development; 2)
39	39	identify training needs and make available training resources; 3) provide technical
40	40	assistance and support; 4) in the absence of a local team or upon request, assign
41	41	review of deaths to a state fatality review team, if established; 5) educate the public
42	42	on causes and recommendations for prevention of reviewable deaths; and 6) provide
43	43	information to the legislature, state agencies, and local communities on the need for
44	44	modifications to law, policy, or practice. The bill allows DHS to contract with an
45	45	entity to perform any of its duties under the bill.
46	46	Under the bill, DHS or its contracted entity must create and make available to
47	47	fatality review teams a confidentiality agreement for use by team members to
48	48	ensure confidentiality consistent with the bill[s provisions. The bill requires DHS
49	49	to promulgate administrative rules to develop and implement a standardized form
50	50	for review of suicide deaths, and allows DHS to promulgate rules to develop and
51	51	implement standardized forms for other types of reviewable deaths. The bill
52	52	further grants general rule-making authority to DHS to implement the bill[s
53	53	provisions.
54	54	Fatality review teams
55	55	The bill contains general provisions governing any type of fatality review
56	56	team. The bill identifies examples of the types of deaths that may constitute a
57	57	reviewable death, including overdose, suicide, maternal death occurring during or
58	58	within a year of a pregnancy, or any unexpected or unintentional death of a child,
59	59	among others. The bill also provides a non-exhaustive list of potential team
60	60	members.
61	61	Under the bill, a fatality review team has the purpose of gathering information
62	62	about reviewable deaths to examine risk factors and understand how deaths may be
63	63	prevented, through identifying recommendations for cross-sector, system-level
64	64	policy and practice changes, and promoting cooperation and coordination among
65	65	the agencies involved in understanding causes of reviewable deaths or in providing
66	66	services to surviving family members.
67	67	If established, each fatality review team must: 1) establish and implement
68	68	team protocols; 2) collect and maintain data; 3) create strategies and track
69	69	implementation of prevention recommendations; and 4) evaluate the team [s
70	70	process, interagency collaboration, and implementation of recommendations. The
71	71	bill requires teams to assign, as appropriate for a specific review, a team member to
72	72	complete any standardized form developed by DHS, and to enter data regarding
73	73	each reviewable death into any secure database designated by DHS or its
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75	75	Record access and confidentiality
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81	81	sources, such as certain state agencies, law enforcement, medical examiners and
82	82	coroners, health care providers, social or human service agencies, schools, and the
83	83	prescription drug monitoring program, among others, subject to certain restrictions
84	84	under the bill and current law.
85	85	Information and records provided to or created by a fatality review team are
86	86	confidential, subject to limited exceptions provided under the bill, and are not
87	87	subject to Wisconsin[s public records laws. The bill requires team members, and
88	88	other individuals invited to attend a team meeting, to sign a confidentiality
89	89	agreement before participating in or attending a fatality review team meeting. The
90	90	bill prohibits team members, persons in attendance at team meetings, and others
91	91	providing records to teams from testifying in any civil or criminal action as to the
92	92	information specifically obtained through participation in the team[s meeting.
93	93	The bill authorizes disclosure of information if such disclosure serves a team[s
94	94	purpose and certain other conditions are met, such as the information does not
95	95	allow for identification of individuals and does not contain conclusory information
96	96	attributing fault. The bill further specifies that a team[s information and records
97	97	are not subject to discovery or subpoena, or admissible as evidence, in a civil or
98	98	criminal action, unless obtained independently from a team[s review. The bill also
99	99	provides that a person participating in a fatality review team is immune from civil
100	100	or criminal liability for any good faith act or omission in connection with providing
101	101	information or recommendations.
102	102	The bill exempts fatality review team meetings from Wisconsin[s open
103	103	meetings law. The bill allows for public meetings to share summary findings and
104	104	recommendations, but limits the types of information that may be disclosed in
105	105	public meetings.
106	106	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
107	107	printed as an appendix to this bill.
108	108	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
109	109	enact as follows:
110	110	SECTION 1. 48.396 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
111	111	48.396 (1) Law enforcement officers[ records of children shall be kept separate
112	112	from records of adults. Law enforcement officers[ records of the adult expectant
113	113	mothers of unborn children shall be kept separate from records of other adults. Law
114	114	enforcement officers[ records of children and the adult expectant mothers of unborn
115	115	children shall not be open to inspection or their contents disclosed except under sub.
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126	126	(1b), (1d), (5), or (6) or s. 48.293 or, 250.22, or 938.396 (2m) (c) 1p. or by order of the
127	127	court. This subsection does not apply to the representatives of newspapers or other
128	128	reporters of news who wish to obtain information for the purpose of reporting news
129	129	without revealing the identity of the child or adult expectant mother involved, to
130	130	the confidential exchange of information between the police and officials of the
131	131	public or private school attended by the child or other law enforcement or social
132	132	welfare agencies, or to children 10 years of age or older who are subject to the
133	133	jurisdiction of the court of criminal jurisdiction. A public school official who obtains
134	134	information under this subsection shall keep the information confidential as
135	135	required under s. 118.125, and a private school official who obtains information
136	136	under this subsection shall keep the information confidential in the same manner
137	137	as is required of a public school official under s. 118.125. This subsection does not
138	138	apply to the confidential exchange of information between the police and officials of
139	139	the tribal school attended by the child if the police determine that enforceable
140	140	protections are provided by a tribal school policy or tribal law that requires tribal
141	141	school officials to keep the information confidential in a manner at least as
142	142	stringent as is required of a public school official under s. 118.125. A law
143	143	enforcement agency that obtains information under this subsection shall keep the
144	144	information confidential as required under this subsection and s. 938.396 (1) (a). A
145	145	social welfare agency that obtains information under this subsection shall keep the
146	146	information confidential as required under ss. 48.78 and 938.78.
147	147	SECTION 2. 48.396 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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176	176	chapter and ch. 938 and of courts exercising jurisdiction under s. 48.16 shall be
177	177	entered in books or deposited in files kept for that purpose only. Those records shall
178	178	not be open to inspection or their contents disclosed except by order of the court
179	179	assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter and ch. 938 or as required or
180	180	permitted under this subsection, sub. (3) (b) or (c) 1g., 1m., or 1r. or (6), or s. 48.375
181	181	(7) (e) or 250.22.
182	182	SECTION 3. 48.78 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
183	183	48.78 (2) (a) No agency may make available for inspection or disclose the
184	184	contents of any record kept or information received about an individual who is or
185	185	was in its care or legal custody, except as provided under sub. (2m) or s. 48.371,
186	186	48.38 (5) (b) or (d) or (5m) (d), 48.396 (3) (bm) or (c) 1r., 48.432, 48.433, 48.48 (17)
187	187	(bm), 48.57 (2m), 48.66 (6), 48.93, 48.981 (7), 250.22, 938.396 (2m) (c) 1r., 938.51, or
188	188	938.78 or by order of the court.
189	189	SECTION 4. 48.981 (7) (a) 15. of the statutes is amended to read:
190	190	48.981 (7) (a) 15. A fatality review team established under s. 250.22, a child
191	191	fatality review team recognized by the county department, or, in a county having a
192	192	population of 750,000 or more, the department or a licensed child welfare agency
193	193	under contract with the department.
194	194	SECTION 5. 51.30 (4) (b) 29. of the statutes is created to read:
195	195	51.30 (4) (b) 29. To an authorized member of a fatality review team
196	196	established under s. 250.22. The recipient of any treatment records under this
197	197	subdivision shall keep the records confidential in accordance with s. 250.22.
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226	226	146.82 (2) (d) Notwithstanding sub. (1), patient health care records may be
227	227	released, upon request, to a fatality review team, as defined in s. 250.22 (1) (a),
228	228	acting as a public health authority for the purpose of reviewing a death as described
229	229	under s. 250.22. Records that may be released under this paragraph for the public
230	230	health purposes under s. 250.22 may be disclosed to a fatality review team only in
231	231	accordance with that section, and the recipient of any records released shall keep
232	232	the records confidential.
233	233	SECTION 7. 250.22 of the statutes is created to read:
234	234	250.22 Fatality review teams. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section:
235	235	(a) XFatality review teamY means a multidisciplinary and multiagency team
236	236	examining one or more types of reviewable death among children or adults and
237	237	developing recommendations to prevent future deaths of similar circumstances.
238	238	(b) XLocal fatality review teamY means a fatality review team that examines
239	239	reviewable deaths from specific municipalities or counties. A Xlocal fatality review
240	240	teamY may include a team formed by a collaboration of two or more municipalities,
241	241	counties, local health departments, or tribal health departments.
242	242	(c) XMunicipalityY means a city, village, or town.
243	243	(d) XState fatality review teamY means a fatality review team that examines
244	244	reviewable deaths of residents across the state.
245	245	(e) 1. XReviewable deathY includes any of the following types of deaths:
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247	247	b. Homicide or death involving domestic violence, intimate partner violence,
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276	276	c. Motor vehicle incident.
277	277	d. Overdose death.
278	278	e. Child abuse or neglect.
279	279	f. Stillbirth.
280	280	g. Fetal death or infant death.
281	281	h. A maternal death occurring during or within a year of a pregnancy.
282	282	i. Any unexpected or unintentional death of a child.
283	283	2. XReviewable deathY does not include a death subject to review under s.
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285	285	(2) DEPARTMENT DUTIES AND AUTHORITY. (a) The department shall establish
286	286	a fatality review program comprised of local fatality review teams established at the
287	287	option of a municipality, a county, a local health department, a tribal health
288	288	department, or a combination of these entities. The department may also establish
289	289	a state fatality review team.
290	290	(b) In coordination with the department of justice, the department of children
291	291	and families, or other state agencies, as appropriate, the department shall do all of
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293	293	1. Facilitate the development of local fatality review teams under this section.
294	294	2. Identify training needs and make training resources available to local
295	295	fatality review teams, statewide professional organizations, advocacy groups, and
296	296	others.
297	297	3. Respond to requests from local fatality review teams and provide any
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327	327	fatality review team, assign review of deaths to a state fatality review team, if
328	328	established.
329	329	5. Provide information to the legislature, state agencies, and local
330	330	communities on the need for modifications to law, policy, or practice.
331	331	(c) The department may enter into a contract with an entity to perform any of
332	332	the department[s duties under this section.
333	333	(d) The department shall promulgate rules to develop and implement a
334	334	standardized form for use by fatality review teams when reviewing suicide deaths.
335	335	The department may promulgate rules to develop and implement standardized
336	336	forms for use by fatality review teams when reviewing other types of reviewable
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338	338	(e) The department may educate the public regarding the incidence and
339	339	causes of reviewable deaths, including recommendations that identify needed policy
340	340	changes or action to prevent future deaths.
341	341	(f) The department or its contracted entity shall create and make available to
342	342	fatality review teams a confidentiality agreement to be used by fatality review team
343	343	members to ensure confidentiality consistent with this section.
344	344	(g) The department may promulgate rules to implement this section.
345	345	(3) FATALITY REVIEW TEAMS; PURPOSE, DUTIES, MEMBERSHIP, AND RECORD
346	346	ACCESS. (a) Fatality review teams shall have the purpose of gathering information
347	347	concerning reviewable deaths to examine the risk factors and circumstances
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374	374	leading to reviewable deaths and understand how the deaths could have been
375	375	prevented through all of the following:
376	376	1. Identification of recommendations for cross-sector, system-level policy and
377	377	practice changes to address the identified risk factors and prevent future
378	378	reviewable deaths.
379	379	2. Promotion of cooperation and coordination among agencies involved in
380	380	understanding the causes of reviewable deaths or in providing services to surviving
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382	382	(b) 1. If established, each fatality review team shall do all of the following:
383	383	a. Establish and implement a protocol for the fatality review team and, to the
384	384	extent the department or its contracted entity is involved with the type of review
385	385	undertaken, consult with the department or its contracted entity regarding the
386	386	protocol.
387	387	b. Collect and maintain data to the extent requested by the department or its
388	388	contracted entity for the type of review undertaken.
389	389	c. Create strategies and make and track the implementation of
390	390	recommendations for the prevention and reduction of reviewable deaths in the area
391	391	served by the fatality review team.
392	392	d. Evaluate the fatality review team [s review process, interagency
393	393	collaboration, and development and implementation of recommendations to ensure
394	394	adherence to the purpose described in par. (a).
395	395	2. A fatality review team may address a reviewable death that occurred in the
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426	426	(c) When conducting a fatality review under this section, a fatality review
427	427	team may be provided with information from the records held by any of the
428	428	following, if the records pertain to a person or incident within the scope of the
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430	430	1. The department of health services or a local health department.
431	431	2. The department of children and families.
432	432	3. A law enforcement agency.
433	433	4. A medical examiner or coroner.
434	434	5. A treatment provider for substance use or mental health.
435	435	6. A hospital or health care provider.
436	436	7. Emergency medical services, including a fire department.
437	437	8. A Women, Infants, and Children program under s. 253.06.
438	438	9. The department of corrections.
439	439	10. A district attorney[s office.
440	440	11. A circuit or municipal court.
441	441	12. A social or human services agency.
442	442	13. Service providers or advocates that provide support in response to
443	443	violence, including domestic abuse.
444	444	14. Child protective services or a child welfare agency.
445	445	15. A school or university.
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475	475	program records.
476	476	17. Any other agency or organization identified as necessary for the review by
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478	478	(d) If established, the members of a fatality review team may include any of
479	479	the following types of individuals, organizations, agencies, and areas of expertise:
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481	481	2. Tribal health centers.
482	482	3. Medical examiners and coroners.
483	483	4. Funeral directors.
484	484	5. Law enforcement.
485	485	6. The district attorney with jurisdiction, or his or her designee.
486	486	7. Medical professionals, including physicians, physician assistants, and
487	487	nurses.
488	488	8. Emergency medical responders, as defined in s. 256.01 (4p), or emergency
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490	490	9. Behavioral health professionals.
491	491	10. Service providers or advocates that provide support in response to
492	492	violence, including domestic abuse.
493	493	11. Individuals with relevant personal experience.
494	494	12. Education professionals, including school counselors and school
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525	525	(e) A fatality review team shall enter data regarding each reviewable death
526	526	under review into any secure database designated by the department or its
527	527	contracted entity.
528	528	(f) A fatality review team shall assign, as appropriate for the specific type of
529	529	review, a member of the team to complete any standardized form developed by the
530	530	department under sub. (2) (d).
531	531	(4) DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION; IMMUNITY. (a) Information and records
532	532	provided to or created by a fatality review team are confidential, except as
533	533	otherwise provided in this section, and are not subject to inspection or copying
534	534	under s. 19.35. Before a member of a fatality review team may participate in the
535	535	review of a reviewable death, the member must sign a copy of the confidentiality
536	536	agreement described under sub. (2) (f) and review the purpose and goals of the
537	537	fatality review team. Any person who is invited to a fatality review team meeting
538	538	must sign a copy of the confidentiality agreement described under sub. (2) (f) before
539	539	attending or participating in the meeting.
540	540	(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a member of a fatality review
541	541	team may share information disclosed to the fatality review team regarding a
542	542	reviewable death with other members of that fatality review team or with another
543	543	fatality review team conducting a review of the same individual[s death, except that
544	544	the member may not distribute additional, printed copies of any information or
545	545	record that is disclosed to him or her to other members of the member[s fatality
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574	574	(c) Any person participating in the review of a reviewable death by a fatality
575	575	review team, including any member of a fatality review team, a person attending a
576	576	fatality review meeting, or a person who presents information to the fatality review
577	577	team, and any person providing information or records to the fatality review team
578	578	for the purpose of reviewing a reviewable death, may not testify in any civil or
579	579	criminal action as to the information specifically obtained through the person[s
580	580	participation in the fatality review team[s meeting or to any conclusion of the
581	581	fatality review team regarding a reviewable death. This paragraph does not
582	582	prohibit a person from testifying to information that is obtained independently of a
583	583	fatality review team or that is public information.
584	584	(d) A person who attends a fatality review team meeting or presents
585	585	information to a fatality review team is not prohibited under par. (a) or (b) from
586	586	disclosing information or records obtained independently of the review if that
587	587	disclosure is otherwise permitted under state or federal law.
588	588	(e) 1. A fatality review team may disclose information if the disclosure is made
589	589	for the purpose of fulfilling a purpose of the fatality review team and if the
590	590	information meets all of the following criteria:
591	591	a. The information does not contain any information that identifies the names
592	592	or identifying numbers of individuals and does not contain other information for
593	593	which there is reasonable basis to believe that the information could be used to
594	594	identify an individual or entity.
595	595	b. The information does not contain addresses other than zip codes.
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622	622	c. The information does not contain dates of birth, death, or incident other
623	623	than the year.
624	624	d. The information does not contain conclusory information attributing fault,
625	625	not including findings or judgments by law enforcement agencies, courts, or child
626	626	welfare agencies.
627	627	2. Any of the following items, if the item does not contain any information that
628	628	would allow the identity of an individual to be ascertained, may be disclosed or
629	629	treated as public information:
630	630	a. Statistical or aggregate compilations of data.
631	631	b. Reports from fatality review teams.
632	632	(f) Information and records provided or obtained in the course of a fatality
633	633	review under this section are not subject to discovery or subpoena in a civil or
634	634	criminal action or an administrative proceeding and are not admissible as evidence
635	635	during the course of a civil or criminal action or an administrative proceeding,
636	636	except that information and records obtained independently of a review under this
637	637	section are not immune from discovery merely because the information or records
638	638	were presented to a fatality review team.
639	639	(g) Any person participating in a fatality review team[s meeting under this
640	640	section is immune from any civil or criminal liability for any good faith act or
641	641	omission in connection with providing information or recommendations relevant to
642	642	review of a reviewable death to the fatality review team in accordance with this
643	643	section or any conclusions or recommendations reached by the fatality review team
644	644	made in good faith. The immunity granted under this paragraph applies to persons
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671	671	SECTION 7
672	672	conducting the review as well as persons providing information or records to the
673	673	fatality review team for the meeting. For the purpose of any civil or criminal action,
674	674	any person participating in a review under this section is presumed to be acting in
675	675	good faith.
676	676	(5) MEETINGS. (a) Meetings of a fatality review team shall be closed to the
677	677	public and are not subject to subch. V of ch. 19. A fatality review team may hold a
678	678	public meeting to share summary findings and recommendations of reviews by
679	679	fatality review teams.
680	680	(b) During a public meeting under par. (a), no person may disclose information
681	681	on or agency involvement with any of the following:
682	682	1. A deceased individual.
683	683	2. A family member, guardian, or caretaker of a deceased individual.
684	684	3. An individual convicted of a crime or adjudicated as having committed a
685	685	delinquent act that caused a death or near fatality.
686	686	(c) This subsection does not prohibit a fatality review team from requesting
687	687	the attendance at a team meeting of a person who has information relevant to the
688	688	team[s exercise of its purpose and duties, provided that any person attending the
689	689	meeting signs the confidentiality agreement as described under sub. (2) (f).
690	690	SECTION 8. 938.396 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
691	691	938.396 (1) (a) Confidentiality. Law enforcement agency records of juveniles
692	692	shall be kept separate from records of adults. Law enforcement agency records of
693	693	juveniles may not be open to inspection or their contents disclosed except under par.
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720	720	(b) or (c), sub. (1j), (2m) (c) 1p., or (10), or s. 250.22 or 938.293 or by order of the
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722	722	SECTION 9. 938.396 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
723	723	938.396 (2) (a) Records of the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under
724	724	this chapter and ch. 48 and of municipal courts exercising jurisdiction under s.
725	725	938.17 (2) shall be entered in books or deposited in files kept for that purpose only.
726	726	Those records shall not be open to inspection or their contents disclosed except by
727	727	order of the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter and ch. 48 or
728	728	as required or permitted under sub. (2g), (2m) (b) or (c), or (10) or s. 250.22.
729	729	SECTION 10. 938.78 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
730	730	938.78 (2) (a) No agency may make available for inspection or disclose the
731	731	contents of any record kept or information received about an individual who is or
732	732	was in its care or legal custody, except as provided under sub. (2m) or (3) or s. 48.396
733	733	(3) (bm) or (c) 1r., 250.22, 938.371, 938.38 (5) (b) or (d) or (5m) (d), 938.396 (2m) (c)
734	734	1r., 938.51, or 938.57 (2m) or by order of the court.
735	735	SECTION 11. 961.385 (2) (cm) 5. of the statutes is created to read:
736	736	961.385 (2) (cm) 5. An overdose fatality review team, a suicide review team, or
737	737	a maternal mortality review team under s. 250.22 (3) (c) 15.
738	738	SECTION 12. Effective date.
739	739	(1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 13th month beginning after
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