8 AAC 85.340. Exchange of information with other agencies

(a) In order for the department to determine whether a requesting agency's safeguards for confidentiality of information are, at a minimum, as effective as the safeguards imposed by the department, any agency of this or another state or of the federal government requesting information under AS 23.20.110 (c) must have on file with the department, or enclose with the request, a copy of the applicable statute or regulation pertaining to the confidentiality of its records.

(b) If no copy of the applicable statute or regulation is on file or enclosed with an agency request for information, the department will request a copy from the agency before releasing any information. If no copy is received after having been requested, or if the safeguards of the agency requesting information do not meet the standards of AS 23.20.110 , no information will be provided to that agency by the department.

(c) "Agency" as used in AS 23.20.110 (c) and this section does not include law enforcement agencies of a local, state, or federal government.

History: Eff. 1/7/78, Register 65

Authority: AS 23.20.045

AS 23.20.110

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