Confidentiality Rules Restrict Advocates' Access, Panel Says

... ruled. The Appellate Division, Third Department, decided that a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in Ulster County may not gain access to either the state's registry of abused or neglected children or to information about the mental-health ...

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