Section 5-702 – Established

    (a)    There is a State Child Fatality Review Team.     (b)    The State Team is part of the Department for budgetary and administrative purposes.

Section 5-703 – Membership

    (a)    The State Team shall be a multidisciplinary and multiagency review team, composed of at least 25 members, including:         (1)    The Attorney General or the Attorney General’s designee;         (2)    The Chief Medical Examiner or the Chief Medical Examiner’s designee;         (3)    The Secretary of Human Services or the Secretary’s designee;         (4)    The Secretary of Health or the Secretary’s designee;         (5)    The State […]

Section 5-704 – Legislative Purpose

    (a)    The purpose of the State Team is to prevent child deaths by:         (1)    Developing an understanding of the causes and incidence of child deaths;         (2)    Developing plans for and implementing changes within the agencies represented on the State Team to prevent child deaths; and         (3)    Advising the Governor, the General Assembly, and the public on changes to law, […]

Section 5-705 – Local Child Fatality Review Teams — Established

    (a)    (1)    Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, there shall be a multidisciplinary and multiagency child fatality review team in each county.         (2)    Instead of a local team in each county, two or more counties may agree to establish a single multicounty local team.         (3)    A multicounty local team shall execute a memorandum of understanding on […]

Section 5-706 – Local Child Fatality Review Teams — Purpose; Duties

    (a)    The purpose of the local team is to prevent child deaths by:         (1)    Promoting cooperation and coordination among agencies involved in investigations of child deaths or in providing services to surviving family members;         (2)    Developing an understanding of the causes and incidence of child deaths in the county;         (3)    Developing plans for and recommending changes within the agencies […]

Section 5-707 – Local Child Fatality Review Teams — Investigations

    Upon request of the chair of the local team and as necessary to carry out the local team’s purpose and duties, the local team shall be immediately provided:         (1)    Access to information and records, including information on prenatal care, maintained by a health care provider regarding:             (i)    A child whose death is being reviewed by the local […]

Section 5-708 – Meetings

    (a)    Meetings of the State Team and of local teams shall be closed to the public and not subject to Title 3 of the General Provisions Article when the State Team or local teams are discussing individual cases of child deaths.     (b)    Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, meetings of the State Team and […]

Section 5-709 – Disclosure of Records and Information

    (a)    All information and records acquired by the State Team or by a local team, in the exercise of its purpose and duties under this subtitle, are confidential, exempt from disclosure under Title 4 of the General Provisions Article, and may only be disclosed as necessary to carry out the team’s duties and purposes.     (b)    Statistical compilations […]