Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 557.6 - Confidentiality of death review team records and meetings.(a)Meetings.--A death review team meeting shall be closed to the public and information discussed at the meeting shall be confidential. (b) Records.-- (1) The proceedings, records and information maintained by and shared with a death review team may not be: (i) Disclosed under the act of February 14, 2008 ( P.L. 6, No.3), known as the Right-To-Know Law.(ii) Subject to discovery, subpoena or introduction into evidence in a criminal or civil proceeding.(2) Information presented in or opinions formed as a result of a meeting of a death review team may not be subject to subpoena, discovery or admissible in evidence in a civil or criminal action. Nothing under this subsection shall be construed to prevent a member of a death review team from testifying in a criminal or civil proceeding to information obtained independently of participation in the death review team or to information which is publicly available. Added by P.L. TBD 2022 No. 101, § 3, eff. 12/3/2022.