Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-2-1001

control efforts.

A. The Attorney General shall have the power and duty to:

1. Coordinate and integrate state and local efforts to address

overdose deaths and create a body of information to prevent overdose

deaths;

2. Conduct case reviews of deaths of persons eighteen (18)

years of age or older due to licit or illicit opioid use in this

state;

3. Collect, analyze, and interpret state and local data on

opioid overdose deaths;

4. Develop a state and local database on opioid overdose

deaths;

5. Improve policies, procedures, and practices within the

agencies in order to prevent fatal opioid overdoses and to serve

victims of unintentional overdose; and

6. Enter into agreements with other state, local, or private

entities as necessary to carry out the duties under this section,

including, but not limited to, conducting joint reviews with the

Child Death Review Board on unintentional overdose cases involving

child death and child near-death incidents.

B. In carrying out his or her duties and responsibilities, the

Attorney General shall:

1. Promulgate rules, if necessary, establishing criteria for

identifying cases involving an opioid overdose death subject to

specific, in-depth review by the Attorney General;

2. Conduct a specific case review of those cases where the

cause of death is or may be related to overdose of opioid drugs;

3. Establish and maintain statistical information related to

opioid overdose deaths including, but not limited to, demographic

and medical diagnostic information;

4. Establish procedures for obtaining initial information

regarding opioid overdose deaths from law enforcement agencies;

5. Review the policies, practices, and procedures of medical

systems and law enforcement systems and other overdose protection

and prevention systems, and make specific recommendations to those

entities for actions necessary for the improvement of the system;

6. Request and obtain a copy of all records and reports

pertaining to an adult whose case is under review including, but not

limited to:

a. the report of the medical examiner,

b. hospital records,

c. school records,

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d. court records,

e. prosecutorial records,

f. local, state, and federal law enforcement records

including, but not limited to, the Oklahoma State

Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) and Oklahoma State

Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN),

g. fire department records,

h. State Department of Health records, including birth

certificate records,

i. medical and dental records,

j. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Services and other mental health records,

k. emergency medical service records,

l. files of the Department of Human Services, and

m. records in the possession of the Child Death Review

Board when conducting a joint review in accordance

with paragraph 6 of subsection A of this section.

Confidential information or records provided to the Attorney General

shall be maintained by the Attorney General in a confidential manner

as otherwise required by state and federal law. Any person damaged

by disclosure of such confidential information by the Attorney

General or any employees or contractors of the Office of the

Attorney General which is not authorized by law may maintain an

action for damages, costs and attorney fees pursuant to The

Governmental Tort Claims Act;

7. Maintain all confidential information, documents and records

in possession of the Attorney General as confidential and not

subject to subpoena or discovery in any civil or criminal

proceedings; provided however, information, documents, and records

otherwise available from other sources shall not be exempt from

subpoena or discovery through those sources solely because such

information, documents, and records were presented to or reviewed by

the Attorney General;

8. Conduct reviews of specific cases of opioid overdose deaths
ubpoena or discovery in any civil or criminal

proceedings; provided however, information, documents, and records

otherwise available from other sources shall not be exempt from

subpoena or discovery through those sources solely because such

information, documents, and records were presented to or reviewed by

the Attorney General;

8. Conduct reviews of specific cases of opioid overdose deaths

and request the preparation of additional information and reports as

determined to be necessary by the Attorney General including, but

not limited to, clinical summaries from treating physicians,

chronologies of contact, and second-opinion autopsies;

9. Report to the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the

Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives any

information and guidance regarding the prevention and protection

system to advise on changing trends in overdose rates, substances,

methods, or any other factor impacting overdose deaths, including

any systemic issue within the medical, law enforcement, or other

relevant systems discovered by the Attorney General while performing

his or her duties; and

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10. Exercise all incidental powers necessary and proper for the

implementation and administration of this section.

C. All discussions of individual cases and any writings

produced by or created for the Attorney General in the course of

determining a remedial measure to be recommended by the Attorney

General, as the result of a review of an individual case of an

opioid overdose death, shall be privileged and shall not be

admissible in evidence in any proceeding.

D. The Attorney General shall submit an annual statistical

report on the incidence and causes of opioid overdose deaths in this

state for which the Attorney General has completed his or her review

during the past calendar year including his or her recommendations,

if any, to the medical and law enforcement system. The Attorney

General shall also prepare and make available to the public, on an

annual basis, a report containing a summary of the activities

relating to the review of opioid overdose deaths, the extent to

which the state medical and law enforcement system is coordinated,

and an evaluation of whether the state is efficiently discharging

its responsibilities to prevent opioid overdose deaths. The report

shall be completed no later than February 1 of the subsequent year.

E. Any entity from which the Attorney General requests records

in accordance with paragraph 6 of subsection B of this section shall

provide the records to the Attorney General.

F. The Attorney General may assign any of the powers and duties

in this section or in Section 2-1003 of this title to any of the

Attorney General’s assistants or employees.