52-2-211. County interdisciplinary child information team. (1) The following persons and agencies operating within a county may by written agreement form a county interdisciplinary child information team:
     (a) the youth court;
     (b) the county attorney;
     (c) the department of public health and human services;
     (d) the county superintendent of schools;
     (e) the sheriff;
     (f) the chief of any police force;
     (g) the superintendents of public school districts; and
     (h) the department of corrections.
     (2) The persons and agencies signing a written agreement under subsection (1) may by majority vote allow the following persons to sign the written agreement and join the information team:
     (a) physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and other providers of medical and mental health care;
     (b) entities operating private elementary and secondary schools;
     (c) attorneys; and
     (d) a person or entity that has or may have a legitimate interest in one or more children that the information team will serve.
     (3) The members of the information team or their designees may form one or more auxiliary teams for the purpose of providing service to a single child, a group of children, or children with a particular type of problem or for any other purpose. Auxiliary teams are subject to the written agreement.
     (4) The purpose of the team and written agreement is to facilitate the exchange and sharing of information that one or more team members may be able to use in serving a child in the course of their professions and occupations, including but not limited to abused, neglected, and delinquent children and youth in need of supervision. Information regarding a child that a team member supplies to other team members or that is disseminated to a team member under 41-3-205 or 41-5-603(2) may not be disseminated beyond the team.
     (5) The terms of the written agreement must provide for the rules under which the team will operate, the method by which information will be shared, distributed, and managed, and any other matters necessary to the purpose and functions of the team.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 510, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 26, Ch. 458, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 466, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 341, Ch. 546, L. 1995.