Colorado Revised Statutes Title 25. Health § 25-20.5-2305. Overdose fatality review access to information--fees--disclosure--no liability for sharing records

(a) If the person, agency, or entity is a health-care provider, substance use disorder treatment provider, hospital, or other health-care facility or behavioral health entity, information and records maintained by the person, agency, or entity regarding the physical health, mental health, and substance use disorder treatment for a person whose death or near death is being reviewed by the local team; and

(b) If the agency or entity is a state or local government agency or entity that provided services to a person whose death or near death is being reviewed by the local team or provided services to the family of the person, information and records maintained by the agency or entity about the person, including death investigative information, medical examiner investigative information, law enforcement investigative information, emergency medical services reports, fire department records, prosecutorial records, parole and probation information and records, court records, school records, and information and records of a department of human or social services, including the local human services and public health agencies.

(a) A coroner or medical examiner;

(b) A fire department;

(c) A health-care facility;

(d) A hospital;

(e) A state or local law enforcement agency;

(f) A state or local governmental agency, including the department of human services, including the behavioral health administration; the department of public health and environment, so long as the department of public health and environment created or holds the records and the release does not violate any agreement not to release the records; the department of law; the office of state public defender; the department of corrections;

and the state board of parole;

(g) A behavioral health entity;

(h) A health-care provider;

(i) A substance use disorder treatment provider;

(j) A school, including a public or private elementary, middle, junior high, or high school, or a public or private institution of postsecondary education described in title 23, including the Auraria higher education center created in article 70 of title 23;

(k) A social services provider;

(l) Ground or air ambulance service agencies; and

(m) Any other person or entity that is in possession of records that are, as determined by the local team, pertinent to the local team's investigation of an overdose fatality.

(3)(a) A person, agency, or entity shall provide requested information to the local team within ten business days after receipt of the written request, excluding weekends and holidays, unless an extension is granted by the chair of the local team. Written requests may include a request submitted via e-mail or facsimile transmission.

(b) A person, agency, or entity that receives a records request from a local team pursuant to this section may charge the local team a reasonable fee for the service of duplicating any records requested by the local team.