Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SB192 Compare Versions

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4	4	2025 SENATE BILL 192
5	5	April 14, 2025 - Introduced by Senator JAMES, cosponsored by Representatives
6	6	MOSES, CALLAHAN, SNYDER, O'CONNOR and MURSAU. Referred to Committee
7	7	on Health.
8	8	AN ACT to amend 48.396 (1), 48.396 (2) (a), 48.78 (2) (a), 48.981 (7) (a) 15.,
9	9	938.396 (1) (a), 938.396 (2) (a) and 938.78 (2) (a); to create 51.30 (4) (b) 29.,
10	10	146.82 (2) (d), 250.22 and 961.385 (2) (cm) 5. of the statutes; relating to:
11	11	fatality review teams and granting rule-making authority.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	This bill establishes fatality review teams under state law. Current law does
14	14	not address fatality review teams, though several types of such teams currently
15	15	exist in Wisconsin based on voluntary efforts primarily organized by counties, with
16	16	state-level technical assistance available for certain types of teams.
17	17	Under the bill, a fatality review team is defined as a multidisciplinary and
18	18	multiagency team reviewing one or more types of death among children or adults
19	19	and developing recommendations to prevent future deaths of similar circumstances.
20	20	The bill generally governs a team[s responsibilities, ability to access certain
21	21	records, confidentiality requirements, and disclosure of information.
22	22	Duties and authority of the Department of Health Services
23	23	Under the bill, the Department of Health Services must establish a fatality
24	24	review program comprised of local fatality review teams established at the option of
25	25	a municipality, a county, a local health department, or a tribal health department,
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33	33	or a combination of these entities. The bill also authorizes, but does not require,
34	34	DHS to create state fatality review teams.
35	35	The bill requires DHS to perform various duties, in consultation with other
36	36	state agencies as appropriate, such as: 1) facilitate local team development; 2)
37	37	identify training needs and make available training resources; 3) provide technical
38	38	assistance and support; 4) in the absence of a local team or upon request, assign
39	39	review of deaths to a state fatality review team, if established; 5) educate the public
40	40	on causes and recommendations for prevention of reviewable deaths; and 6) provide
41	41	information to the legislature, state agencies, and local communities on the need for
42	42	modifications to law, policy, or practice. The bill allows DHS to contract with an
43	43	entity to perform any of its duties under the bill.
44	44	Under the bill, DHS or its contracted entity must create and make available to
45	45	fatality review teams a confidentiality agreement for use by team members to
46	46	ensure confidentiality consistent with the bill[s provisions. The bill requires DHS
47	47	to promulgate administrative rules to develop and implement a standardized form
48	48	for review of suicide deaths, and allows DHS to promulgate rules to develop and
49	49	implement standardized forms for other types of reviewable deaths. The bill
50	50	further grants general rule-making authority to DHS to implement the bill[s
51	51	provisions.
52	52	Fatality review teams
53	53	The bill contains general provisions governing any type of fatality review
54	54	team. The bill identifies examples of the types of deaths that may constitute a
55	55	reviewable death, including overdose, suicide, maternal death occurring during or
56	56	within a year of a pregnancy, or any unexpected or unintentional death of a child,
57	57	among others. The bill also provides a non-exhaustive list of potential team
58	58	members.
59	59	Under the bill, a fatality review team has the purpose of gathering information
60	60	about reviewable deaths to examine risk factors and understand how deaths may be
61	61	prevented, through identifying recommendations for cross-sector, system-level
62	62	policy and practice changes, and promoting cooperation and coordination among
63	63	the agencies involved in understanding causes of reviewable deaths or in providing
64	64	services to surviving family members.
65	65	If established, each fatality review team must: 1) establish and implement
66	66	team protocols; 2) collect and maintain data; 3) create strategies and track
67	67	implementation of prevention recommendations; and 4) evaluate the team [s
68	68	process, interagency collaboration, and implementation of recommendations. The
69	69	bill requires teams to assign, as appropriate for a specific review, a team member to
70	70	complete any standardized form developed by DHS, and to enter data regarding
71	71	each reviewable death into any secure database designated by DHS or its
72	72	contracted entity.
73	73	Record access and confidentiality
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79	79	sources, such as certain state agencies, law enforcement, medical examiners and
80	80	coroners, health care providers, social or human service agencies, schools, and the
81	81	prescription drug monitoring program, among others, subject to certain restrictions
82	82	under the bill and current law.
83	83	Information and records provided to or created by a fatality review team are
84	84	confidential, subject to limited exceptions provided under the bill, and are not
85	85	subject to Wisconsin[s public records laws. The bill requires team members, and
86	86	other individuals invited to attend a team meeting, to sign a confidentiality
87	87	agreement before participating in or attending a fatality review team meeting. The
88	88	bill prohibits team members, persons in attendance at team meetings, and others
89	89	providing records to teams from testifying in any civil or criminal action as to the
90	90	information specifically obtained through participation in the team[s meeting.
91	91	The bill authorizes disclosure of information if such disclosure serves a team[s
92	92	purpose and certain other conditions are met, such as the information does not
93	93	allow for identification of individuals and does not contain conclusory information
94	94	attributing fault. The bill further specifies that a team[s information and records
95	95	are not subject to discovery or subpoena, or admissible as evidence, in a civil or
96	96	criminal action, unless obtained independently from a team[s review. The bill also
97	97	provides that a person participating in a fatality review team is immune from civil
98	98	or criminal liability for any good faith act or omission in connection with providing
99	99	information or recommendations.
100	100	The bill exempts fatality review team meetings from Wisconsin[s open
101	101	meetings law. The bill allows for public meetings to share summary findings and
102	102	recommendations, but limits the types of information that may be disclosed in
103	103	public meetings.
104	104	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
105	105	printed as an appendix to this bill.
106	106	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
107	107	enact as follows:
108	108	SECTION 1. 48.396 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
109	109	48.396 (1) Law enforcement officers[ records of children shall be kept separate
110	110	from records of adults. Law enforcement officers[ records of the adult expectant
111	111	mothers of unborn children shall be kept separate from records of other adults. Law
112	112	enforcement officers[ records of children and the adult expectant mothers of unborn
113	113	children shall not be open to inspection or their contents disclosed except under sub.
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124	124	(1b), (1d), (5), or (6) or s. 48.293 or, 250.22, or 938.396 (2m) (c) 1p. or by order of the
125	125	court. This subsection does not apply to the representatives of newspapers or other
126	126	reporters of news who wish to obtain information for the purpose of reporting news
127	127	without revealing the identity of the child or adult expectant mother involved, to
128	128	the confidential exchange of information between the police and officials of the
129	129	public or private school attended by the child or other law enforcement or social
130	130	welfare agencies, or to children 10 years of age or older who are subject to the
131	131	jurisdiction of the court of criminal jurisdiction. A public school official who obtains
132	132	information under this subsection shall keep the information confidential as
133	133	required under s. 118.125, and a private school official who obtains information
134	134	under this subsection shall keep the information confidential in the same manner
135	135	as is required of a public school official under s. 118.125. This subsection does not
136	136	apply to the confidential exchange of information between the police and officials of
137	137	the tribal school attended by the child if the police determine that enforceable
138	138	protections are provided by a tribal school policy or tribal law that requires tribal
139	139	school officials to keep the information confidential in a manner at least as
140	140	stringent as is required of a public school official under s. 118.125. A law
141	141	enforcement agency that obtains information under this subsection shall keep the
142	142	information confidential as required under this subsection and s. 938.396 (1) (a). A
143	143	social welfare agency that obtains information under this subsection shall keep the
144	144	information confidential as required under ss. 48.78 and 938.78.
145	145	SECTION 2. 48.396 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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174	174	chapter and ch. 938 and of courts exercising jurisdiction under s. 48.16 shall be
175	175	entered in books or deposited in files kept for that purpose only. Those records shall
176	176	not be open to inspection or their contents disclosed except by order of the court
177	177	assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter and ch. 938 or as required or
178	178	permitted under this subsection, sub. (3) (b) or (c) 1g., 1m., or 1r. or (6), or s. 48.375
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180	180	SECTION 3. 48.78 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
181	181	48.78 (2) (a) No agency may make available for inspection or disclose the
182	182	contents of any record kept or information received about an individual who is or
183	183	was in its care or legal custody, except as provided under sub. (2m) or s. 48.371,
184	184	48.38 (5) (b) or (d) or (5m) (d), 48.396 (3) (bm) or (c) 1r., 48.432, 48.433, 48.48 (17)
185	185	(bm), 48.57 (2m), 48.66 (6), 48.93, 48.981 (7), 250.22, 938.396 (2m) (c) 1r., 938.51, or
186	186	938.78 or by order of the court.
187	187	SECTION 4. 48.981 (7) (a) 15. of the statutes is amended to read:
188	188	48.981 (7) (a) 15. A fatality review team established under s. 250.22, a child
189	189	fatality review team recognized by the county department, or, in a county having a
190	190	population of 750,000 or more, the department or a licensed child welfare agency
191	191	under contract with the department.
192	192	SECTION 5. 51.30 (4) (b) 29. of the statutes is created to read:
193	193	51.30 (4) (b) 29. To an authorized member of a fatality review team
194	194	established under s. 250.22. The recipient of any treatment records under this
195	195	subdivision shall keep the records confidential in accordance with s. 250.22.
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224	224	146.82 (2) (d) Notwithstanding sub. (1), patient health care records may be
225	225	released, upon request, to a fatality review team, as defined in s. 250.22 (1) (a),
226	226	acting as a public health authority for the purpose of reviewing a death as described
227	227	under s. 250.22. Records that may be released under this paragraph for the public
228	228	health purposes under s. 250.22 may be disclosed to a fatality review team only in
229	229	accordance with that section, and the recipient of any records released shall keep
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231	231	SECTION 7. 250.22 of the statutes is created to read:
232	232	250.22 Fatality review teams. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section:
233	233	(a) XFatality review teamY means a multidisciplinary and multiagency team
234	234	examining one or more types of reviewable death among children or adults and
235	235	developing recommendations to prevent future deaths of similar circumstances.
236	236	(b) XLocal fatality review teamY means a fatality review team that examines
237	237	reviewable deaths from specific municipalities or counties. A Xlocal fatality review
238	238	teamY may include a team formed by a collaboration of two or more municipalities,
239	239	counties, local health departments, or tribal health departments.
240	240	(c) XMunicipalityY means a city, village, or town.
241	241	(d) XState fatality review teamY means a fatality review team that examines
242	242	reviewable deaths of residents across the state.
243	243	(e) 1. XReviewable deathY includes any of the following types of deaths:
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245	245	b. Homicide or death involving domestic violence, intimate partner violence,
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275	275	d. Overdose death.
276	276	e. Child abuse or neglect.
277	277	f. Stillbirth.
278	278	g. Fetal death or infant death.
279	279	h. A maternal death occurring during or within a year of a pregnancy.
280	280	i. Any unexpected or unintentional death of a child.
281	281	2. XReviewable deathY does not include a death subject to review under s.
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283	283	(2) DEPARTMENT DUTIES AND AUTHORITY. (a) The department shall establish
284	284	a fatality review program comprised of local fatality review teams established at the
285	285	option of a municipality, a county, a local health department, a tribal health
286	286	department, or a combination of these entities. The department may also establish
287	287	a state fatality review team.
288	288	(b) In coordination with the department of justice, the department of children
289	289	and families, or other state agencies, as appropriate, the department shall do all of
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291	291	1. Facilitate the development of local fatality review teams under this section.
292	292	2. Identify training needs and make training resources available to local
293	293	fatality review teams, statewide professional organizations, advocacy groups, and
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295	295	3. Respond to requests from local fatality review teams and provide any
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324	324	4. Upon request of a local fatality review team, or if a county does not have a
325	325	fatality review team, assign review of deaths to a state fatality review team, if
326	326	established.
327	327	5. Provide information to the legislature, state agencies, and local
328	328	communities on the need for modifications to law, policy, or practice.
329	329	(c) The department may enter into a contract with an entity to perform any of
330	330	the department[s duties under this section.
331	331	(d) The department shall promulgate rules to develop and implement a
332	332	standardized form for use by fatality review teams when reviewing suicide deaths.
333	333	The department may promulgate rules to develop and implement standardized
334	334	forms for use by fatality review teams when reviewing other types of reviewable
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336	336	(e) The department may educate the public regarding the incidence and
337	337	causes of reviewable deaths, including recommendations that identify needed policy
338	338	changes or action to prevent future deaths.
339	339	(f) The department or its contracted entity shall create and make available to
340	340	fatality review teams a confidentiality agreement to be used by fatality review team
341	341	members to ensure confidentiality consistent with this section.
342	342	(g) The department may promulgate rules to implement this section.
343	343	(3) FATALITY REVIEW TEAMS; PURPOSE, DUTIES, MEMBERSHIP, AND RECORD
344	344	ACCESS. (a) Fatality review teams shall have the purpose of gathering information
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372	372	leading to reviewable deaths and understand how the deaths could have been
373	373	prevented through all of the following:
374	374	1. Identification of recommendations for cross-sector, system-level policy and
375	375	practice changes to address the identified risk factors and prevent future
376	376	reviewable deaths.
377	377	2. Promotion of cooperation and coordination among agencies involved in
378	378	understanding the causes of reviewable deaths or in providing services to surviving
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380	380	(b) 1. If established, each fatality review team shall do all of the following:
381	381	a. Establish and implement a protocol for the fatality review team and, to the
382	382	extent the department or its contracted entity is involved with the type of review
383	383	undertaken, consult with the department or its contracted entity regarding the
384	384	protocol.
385	385	b. Collect and maintain data to the extent requested by the department or its
386	386	contracted entity for the type of review undertaken.
387	387	c. Create strategies and make and track the implementation of
388	388	recommendations for the prevention and reduction of reviewable deaths in the area
389	389	served by the fatality review team.
390	390	d. Evaluate the fatality review team [s review process, interagency
391	391	collaboration, and development and implementation of recommendations to ensure
392	392	adherence to the purpose described in par. (a).
393	393	2. A fatality review team may address a reviewable death that occurred in the
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422	422	served by the fatality review team if the incident or death occurred elsewhere in the
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424	424	(c) When conducting a fatality review under this section, a fatality review
425	425	team may be provided with information from the records held by any of the
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428	428	1. The department of health services or a local health department.
429	429	2. The department of children and families.
430	430	3. A law enforcement agency.
431	431	4. A medical examiner or coroner.
432	432	5. A treatment provider for substance use or mental health.
433	433	6. A hospital or health care provider.
434	434	7. Emergency medical services, including a fire department.
435	435	8. A Women, Infants, and Children program under s. 253.06.
436	436	9. The department of corrections.
437	437	10. A district attorney[s office.
438	438	11. A circuit or municipal court.
439	439	12. A social or human services agency.
440	440	13. Service providers or advocates that provide support in response to
441	441	violence, including domestic abuse.
442	442	14. Child protective services or a child welfare agency.
443	443	15. A school or university.
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473	473	program records.
474	474	17. Any other agency or organization identified as necessary for the review by
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476	476	(d) If established, the members of a fatality review team may include any of
477	477	the following types of individuals, organizations, agencies, and areas of expertise:
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479	479	2. Tribal health centers.
480	480	3. Medical examiners and coroners.
481	481	4. Funeral directors.
482	482	5. Law enforcement.
483	483	6. The district attorney with jurisdiction, or his or her designee.
484	484	7. Medical professionals, including physicians, physician assistants, and
485	485	nurses.
486	486	8. Emergency medical responders, as defined in s. 256.01 (4p), or emergency
487	487	medical services practitioners, as defined in s. 256.01 (5).
488	488	9. Behavioral health professionals.
489	489	10. Service providers or advocates that provide support in response to
490	490	violence, including domestic abuse.
491	491	11. Individuals with relevant personal experience.
492	492	12. Education professionals, including school counselors and school
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494	494	13. Child protective services or child welfare agency.
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523	523	(e) A fatality review team shall enter data regarding each reviewable death
524	524	under review into any secure database designated by the department or its
525	525	contracted entity.
526	526	(f) A fatality review team shall assign, as appropriate for the specific type of
527	527	review, a member of the team to complete any standardized form developed by the
528	528	department under sub. (2) (d).
529	529	(4) DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION; IMMUNITY. (a) Information and records
530	530	provided to or created by a fatality review team are confidential, except as
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532	532	under s. 19.35. Before a member of a fatality review team may participate in the
533	533	review of a reviewable death, the member must sign a copy of the confidentiality
534	534	agreement described under sub. (2) (f) and review the purpose and goals of the
535	535	fatality review team. Any person who is invited to a fatality review team meeting
536	536	must sign a copy of the confidentiality agreement described under sub. (2) (f) before
537	537	attending or participating in the meeting.
538	538	(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a member of a fatality review
539	539	team may share information disclosed to the fatality review team regarding a
540	540	reviewable death with other members of that fatality review team or with another
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542	542	the member may not distribute additional, printed copies of any information or
543	543	record that is disclosed to him or her to other members of the member[s fatality
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572	572	(c) Any person participating in the review of a reviewable death by a fatality
573	573	review team, including any member of a fatality review team, a person attending a
574	574	fatality review meeting, or a person who presents information to the fatality review
575	575	team, and any person providing information or records to the fatality review team
576	576	for the purpose of reviewing a reviewable death, may not testify in any civil or
577	577	criminal action as to the information specifically obtained through the person[s
578	578	participation in the fatality review team[s meeting or to any conclusion of the
579	579	fatality review team regarding a reviewable death. This paragraph does not
580	580	prohibit a person from testifying to information that is obtained independently of a
581	581	fatality review team or that is public information.
582	582	(d) A person who attends a fatality review team meeting or presents
583	583	information to a fatality review team is not prohibited under par. (a) or (b) from
584	584	disclosing information or records obtained independently of the review if that
585	585	disclosure is otherwise permitted under state or federal law.
586	586	(e) 1. A fatality review team may disclose information if the disclosure is made
587	587	for the purpose of fulfilling a purpose of the fatality review team and if the
588	588	information meets all of the following criteria:
589	589	a. The information does not contain any information that identifies the names
590	590	or identifying numbers of individuals and does not contain other information for
591	591	which there is reasonable basis to believe that the information could be used to
592	592	identify an individual or entity.
593	593	b. The information does not contain addresses other than zip codes.
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620	620	c. The information does not contain dates of birth, death, or incident other
621	621	than the year.
622	622	d. The information does not contain conclusory information attributing fault,
623	623	not including findings or judgments by law enforcement agencies, courts, or child
624	624	welfare agencies.
625	625	2. Any of the following items, if the item does not contain any information that
626	626	would allow the identity of an individual to be ascertained, may be disclosed or
627	627	treated as public information:
628	628	a. Statistical or aggregate compilations of data.
629	629	b. Reports from fatality review teams.
630	630	(f) Information and records provided or obtained in the course of a fatality
631	631	review under this section are not subject to discovery or subpoena in a civil or
632	632	criminal action or an administrative proceeding and are not admissible as evidence
633	633	during the course of a civil or criminal action or an administrative proceeding,
634	634	except that information and records obtained independently of a review under this
635	635	section are not immune from discovery merely because the information or records
636	636	were presented to a fatality review team.
637	637	(g) Any person participating in a fatality review team[s meeting under this
638	638	section is immune from any civil or criminal liability for any good faith act or
639	639	omission in connection with providing information or recommendations relevant to
640	640	review of a reviewable death to the fatality review team in accordance with this
641	641	section or any conclusions or recommendations reached by the fatality review team
642	642	made in good faith. The immunity granted under this paragraph applies to persons
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670	670	conducting the review as well as persons providing information or records to the
671	671	fatality review team for the meeting. For the purpose of any civil or criminal action,
672	672	any person participating in a review under this section is presumed to be acting in
673	673	good faith.
674	674	(5) MEETINGS. (a) Meetings of a fatality review team shall be closed to the
675	675	public and are not subject to subch. V of ch. 19. A fatality review team may hold a
676	676	public meeting to share summary findings and recommendations of reviews by
677	677	fatality review teams.
678	678	(b) During a public meeting under par. (a), no person may disclose information
679	679	on or agency involvement with any of the following:
680	680	1. A deceased individual.
681	681	2. A family member, guardian, or caretaker of a deceased individual.
682	682	3. An individual convicted of a crime or adjudicated as having committed a
683	683	delinquent act that caused a death or near fatality.
684	684	(c) This subsection does not prohibit a fatality review team from requesting
685	685	the attendance at a team meeting of a person who has information relevant to the
686	686	team[s exercise of its purpose and duties, provided that any person attending the
687	687	meeting signs the confidentiality agreement as described under sub. (2) (f).
688	688	SECTION 8. 938.396 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
689	689	938.396 (1) (a) Confidentiality. Law enforcement agency records of juveniles
690	690	shall be kept separate from records of adults. Law enforcement agency records of
691	691	juveniles may not be open to inspection or their contents disclosed except under par.
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718	718	(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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720	720	SECTION 9. 938.396 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
721	721	938.396 (2) (a) Records of the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under
722	722	this chapter and ch. 48 and of municipal courts exercising jurisdiction under s.
723	723	938.17 (2) shall be entered in books or deposited in files kept for that purpose only.
724	724	Those records shall not be open to inspection or their contents disclosed except by
725	725	order of the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter and ch. 48 or
726	726	as required or permitted under sub. (2g), (2m) (b) or (c), or (10) or s. 250.22.
727	727	SECTION 10. 938.78 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
728	728	938.78 (2) (a) No agency may make available for inspection or disclose the
729	729	contents of any record kept or information received about an individual who is or
730	730	was in its care or legal custody, except as provided under sub. (2m) or (3) or s. 48.396
731	731	(3) (bm) or (c) 1r., 250.22, 938.371, 938.38 (5) (b) or (d) or (5m) (d), 938.396 (2m) (c)
732	732	1r., 938.51, or 938.57 (2m) or by order of the court.
733	733	SECTION 11. 961.385 (2) (cm) 5. of the statutes is created to read:
734	734	961.385 (2) (cm) 5. An overdose fatality review team, a suicide review team, or
735	735	a maternal mortality review team under s. 250.22 (3) (c) 15.
736	736	SECTION 12. Effective date.
737	737	(1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 13th month beginning after
738	738	publication.
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