52-2-211. County interdisciplinary child information and school safety team. (1) The following persons and agencies operating within a county shall by written agreement form a county interdisciplinary child information and school safety team:
     (a) the youth court;
     (b) the county attorney;
     (c) the department of public health and human services;
     (d) the county superintendent of schools;
     (e) the sheriff;
     (f) the chief of any police force;
     (g) the superintendents of public school districts; and
     (h) the department of corrections.
     (2) The persons and agencies signing a written agreement under subsection (1) may by majority vote allow the following persons to sign the written agreement and join the team:
     (a) physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and other providers of medical and mental health care;
     (b) entities operating private elementary and secondary schools;
     (c) attorneys; and
     (d) a person or entity that has or may have a legitimate interest in one or more children that the team will serve.
     (3) (a) The members of the team or their designees may form one or more auxiliary teams for the purpose of providing service to a single child, a group of children, or children with a particular type of problem or for any other purpose. Auxiliary teams are subject to the written agreement.
     (b) A member of an auxiliary team must be a person who has personal knowledge of or experience with the child or children in the member's respective field.
     (4) The purpose of the team and written agreement is to facilitate the exchange and sharing of information that one or more team members may be able to use in serving a child in the course of their professions and occupations, including but not limited to abused or neglected children, delinquent youth, and youth in need of intervention, and of information relating to issues of school safety. Information regarding a child that a team member supplies to other team members or that is disseminated to a team member under 41-3-205 or 41-5-215(2) and (3) may not be disseminated beyond the organizations or departments that have an authorized member on the team under subsection (1) or (2).
     (5) The terms of the written agreement must provide for the rules under which the team will operate, the method by which information will be shared, distributed, and managed, and any other matters necessary to the purpose and functions of the team.
     (6) The terms of the written agreement must state how the team will coordinate its efforts with interdisciplinary child protective teams as provided in 41-3-108 and youth placement committees as provided for in 41-5-121.
     (7) To the extent that the county interdisciplinary child information and school safety team is involved in a proceeding that is held prior to adjudication of a youth in youth court, the team satisfies the requirements of 20 U.S.C. 1232g(b)(1)(E)(ii)(I) of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Montana school districts may release education records to the team. The terms of the written agreement described in subsection (5) must include a requirement that the officials and authorities to whom the information is disclosed certify in writing to the school district that is releasing the education records that the education records or information from the education records will not be disclosed to any other party without the prior written consent of the parent or guardian of the student.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 510, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 26, Ch. 458, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 466, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 341, Ch. 546, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 58, Ch. 550, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 564, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 364, L. 2013.