53-10-204 - Missing person records -- Confidentiality -- Availability.
53-10-204. Missing person records -- Confidentiality -- Availability.
Inquiries made regarding missing persons are confidential and are available only to:
(1) a law enforcement agency investigating a report of a missing person;
(2) an agency having the responsibility or authority to care for, treat, or supervise aperson who is the subject of a placement in temporary or substitute care or an adoptionproceeding;
(3) a court, upon a finding that access to the records may be necessary for thedetermination of an issue before it;
(4) the office of the public prosecutor or its deputies;
(5) any person engaged in bona fide research when approved by the director of thedivision, excluding names and addresses; and
(6) entities or persons authorized to receive the information in accordance with Section53-10-203.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 263, 1998 General Session