Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-2216

capacity of State Council on Aging and Adult Protective Services.

A. The Attorney General shall promulgate rules regarding:

1. The powers and official duties of the State Long-Term Care

Ombudsman consistent with applicable federal law and rules or as

provided by the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Act;

2. Minimum qualifications for persons to serve as

representatives of the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman;

3. Initial and continuing training requirements for ombudsman

staff and volunteers which shall provide for a minimum of eighteen

(18) hours of continuing education relevant to the care of the aging

and disabled;

4. The minimum number of visits that must be made by an

ombudsman to the assigned facilities;

5. The proper documentation and reporting of visits made to

facilities by the ombudsman;

6. Procedures to ensure that officers, employees, or other

representatives of the Office are not subject to a conflict of

interest which would impair their ability to carry out their

official duties in an impartial manner; and

7. The disclosure by the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman or area

or local Ombudsman entities of files maintained by the State Long-

Term Care Ombudsman Program. Such rules shall:

a. provide that such files and records may be disclosed

only at the discretion of the State Long-Term Care

Ombudsman or the person designated by the State Long-

Term Care Ombudsman to disclose the files and records,

and

b. prohibit the disclosure of the identity of any

complainant or resident with respect to whom the

Office maintains such files or records unless:

(1) the complainant or resident, or the legal

representative of the complainant or resident,

consents to the disclosure and the consent is

given in writing,

(2) (a) the complainant or resident gives consent

orally, and

(b) the consent is documented contemporaneously

in a writing made by a State Long-Term Care

Ombudsman representative of the Office in

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accordance with such rules as the Attorney

General shall promulgate, or

(3) the disclosure is required by court order.

B. The Oklahoma State Council on Aging and Adult Protective

Services, established by the Department of Human Services to review,

monitor, and evaluate programs targeted to older persons, shall

serve in an advisory capacity to the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman

through establishment of a committee with equal provider and

consumer representation.