Who can use limited information in the immunization registry?
Information in the registry may also be shared with your childs school, childcare center, Cal-Works, WIC supplemental food clinic, or health care plan, and other persons or entities when disclosure is specifically authorized by law, if they ask for it. These places can use the information only for the reasons listed below: • for schools and child care centers, to help you prove your child has had the vaccines required for admission, • for WIC clinics & Cal-Works, to let you know if your child needs immunizations, and • for health care plans, to help process insurance payments. By law, the information cannot be shared with any other person or agency. All authorized representatives of these groups who can access registry information are required by law to keep it confidential and only use it for the reasons listed above.
