Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 43A-10-110

A. The reports, records, and working papers used or developed

in an investigation of the circumstances of a vulnerable adult

pursuant to the provisions of the Protective Services for Vulnerable

Adults Act are confidential and may be disclosed only pursuant to

rules promulgated by the Director of Human Services or the State

Commissioner of Health, by order of the court, or as otherwise

provided by this section or Section 10-110.1 of this title.

B. Agency records of the Department of Human Services or the

Office of Client Advocacy within the State Department of Health

pertaining to a vulnerable adult may be inspected and their contents

disclosed without a court order to the following persons upon

showing of proper credentials and pursuant to their lawful duties:

1. A district attorney and the employees of an office of a

district attorney in the course of their official duties pursuant to

this title or the prosecution of crimes against vulnerable adults;

2. The attorney representing a vulnerable adult who is the

subject of a proceeding pursuant to the provisions of the Protective

Services for Vulnerable Adults Act;

3. Employees of a law enforcement agency of this or another

state and employees of protective services for vulnerable adults of

another state;

4. A physician who has before him or her a vulnerable adult

whom the physician reasonably suspects may have been abused or

neglected or any health care or mental health professional involved

in the evaluation or treatment of the vulnerable adult;

5. A caretaker, legal guardian, custodian or other family

members of the vulnerable adult; provided, the appropriate state

entity may limit such disclosures to summaries or to information

directly necessary for the purpose of such disclosure;

6. Any public or private agency or person authorized by the

Department to diagnose, provide care and treatment to a vulnerable

adult who is the subject of a report or record of vulnerable adult

abuse or neglect;

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7. Any public or private agency or person authorized by the

Department to supervise or provide other services to a vulnerable

adult who is the subject of a report or record of vulnerable adult

abuse or neglect; provided, the Department may limit such disclosure

to summaries or to information directly necessary for the purpose of

such disclosure; and

8. Any person or agency for research purposes, if all of the

following conditions are met:

a. the person or agency conducting such research is

employed by the State of Oklahoma or is under contract

with this state and is authorized by the Director of

Human Services and the State Commissioner of Health to

conduct such research, and

b. the person or agency conducting the research ensures

that all documents containing identifying information

are maintained in secure locations and access to such

documents by unauthorized persons is prohibited; that

no identifying information is included in documents

generated from the research conducted; and that all

identifying information is deleted from documents used

in the research when the research is completed.

C. Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting

the appropriate state entity from disclosing such confidential

information as may be necessary to secure appropriate care,

treatment or protection of a vulnerable adult alleged to be abused

or neglected.

D. Records and their contents disclosed pursuant to this

section shall remain confidential. The use of such information

shall be limited to the purposes for which disclosure is authorized.

It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to furnish any

record or disclose any information contained therein for any

unauthorized purpose.

E. Records of investigations conducted pursuant to the

Protective Services for Vulnerable Adults Act shall not be expunged

except by court order.
he use of such information

shall be limited to the purposes for which disclosure is authorized.

It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to furnish any

record or disclose any information contained therein for any

unauthorized purpose.

E. Records of investigations conducted pursuant to the

Protective Services for Vulnerable Adults Act shall not be expunged

except by court order.

1. If the Department is currently or was previously appointed

as temporary guardian of the alleged victim of abuse, neglect,

financial exploitation, or financial neglect, any petition or motion

requesting expungement of the investigative records of the

Department shall be filed under the same case number.

2. Written notice of the hearing and a copy of any such

petition or motion shall be properly and timely served upon:

a. the alleged victim of abuse, neglect, financial

exploitation, or financial neglect,

b. the Department’s Office of General Counsel and any

other counsel of record in a proceeding in which the

Department was appointed as temporary guardian, and

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c. all other persons due notice in a guardianship

proceeding involving the victim pursuant to Section 3-

110 of Title 30 of the Oklahoma Statutes.