Who owns confidentiality?
Confidentiality is owned by the program and the individual that received the confidential information. Programs that preserve confidentiality shall have a written policy that applies to staff, volunteers, board members and student interns. Those individuals shall not disclose, or knowingly permit the disclosure of any information concerning the victim or the victim’s family, directly or indirectly to any person unauthorized by the victim. Exception in child abuse cases and when permission to release information has been provided by the victim.
