Ind. Code § 12-18-8-17

Current through P.L. 171-2024

Section 12-18-8-17 - Local domestic violence fatality review team; immunity

Members of a local domestic violence fatality review team and individuals who attend a meeting of a local domestic violence fatality review team as invitees of the chairperson:

(1) may discuss among themselves confidential matters that are before the local domestic violence fatality review team;

(2) are bound by all applicable laws regarding the confidentiality of matters reviewed by the local domestic violence fatality review team; and

(3) except when acting:

(A) with malice;

(B) in bad faith; or

(C) with gross negligence;

are immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be imposed as a result of communicating among themselves about confidential matters that are before the local domestic violence fatality review team.

IC 12-18-8-17

Added by P.L. 258-2017,SEC. 10, eff. 7/1/2017.