Statutes | Muscogee (Creek) Nation Code Title 6 Chapter 1 subchapter 5 ยง 5-508 | 2018

A. Except as provided in this section, reports of child abuse or neglect and the name and address of any child, family or informant or any other identifying information contained in such reports shall be confidential and shall not be public information.
B. Disclosure of the name and address of the child and family and other identifying information involved in such reports shall be permitted only when authorized by a court for good cause. Such disclosure shall not be prohibited when there is a death of a suspected victim or child abuse or neglect and the death becomes a matter of public record, the subject of an arrest by a law enforcement agency, or the subject of the filing of a formal charge by a law enforcement agency.
C. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
D. Only the following persons or agencies shall be given access to child abuse or neglect records and reports:
1.1 The law enforcement agency or social services department investigating a report of known or suspected child abuse or neglect, caring for, supervising or treating a child or family which is the subject of the report or record, including the Lighthorse Police, Attorney General, and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Children and Family Services Administration, including the Deputy Director of Community Services, but excluding other administrators, personnel and elected officials of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.
E. After a child who is the subject of a report reaches the age of eighteen (18) years, access to his record under this section shall be permitted only if a sibling or offspring of such child is before any person mentioned in subsection D of this section and is a suspected victim of child abuse.  The amount and type of information released shall depend upon the source of the report and shall be determined by regulations established by the manager of the central registry. However, under no circumstances shall the information be released unless the person requesting such information is entitled thereto as confirmed by the manager of the central registry and the information released states whether or not the report is founded or unfounded.  A person given access to the names or other information identifying the subject of a report shall not divulge or make public any identifying information unless he is the Prosecutor or other law enforcement official and the purpose is to initiate court action or unless he is the subject of a report.
[NCA 01&ndash126, § 208, approved Aug. 9, 2001  amended by NCA 06&ndash059, § 1, approved May 8, 2006.]
1 So in original.
                                                                        Library References
Indians O132.                                                                                            C.J.S.Indians §§ 150, 152, 154 to 176.
Infants O13.5(1).                                                                                       C.J.S. Infants § 116.
Westlaw Topic Nos. 209, 211.