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Health and Safety Code § 11677

DIVISION 10.1. OVERDOSE FATALITY REVIEW TEAMS

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 11677Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 639, Sec. 1. (AB 2871) Effective January 1, 2025.

(a) An oral or written communication or a document shared within or produced by an overdose fatality review team related to an overdose fatality review is confidential and not subject to disclosure or discovery by a third party.

(b) An oral or written communication or a document provided by a third party to an overdose fatality review team, or between a third party and an overdose fatality review team, is confidential and not subject to disclosure or discovery by a third party.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b), recommendations of an overdose fatality review team, upon the completion of a review, may be disclosed at the discretion of a majority of the members of the overdose fatality review team.