Ohio § 3701.045

§ 3701.045.

(A) The department of health, in consultation with the department of children and youth

and any bodies acting as child fatality review boards on October 5, 2000, shall adopt

rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a procedure

for county or regional child fatality review boards to follow in conducting a review

of the death of a child.  The rules shall do all of the following: (1) Establish the format for the annual reports required by section 307.626 of the Revised Code ; (2) Establish guidelines for a county or regional child fatality review board to follow

in compiling statistics for annual reports so that the reports do not contain any

information that would permit any person's identity to be ascertained from a report; (3) Establish guidelines for a county or regional child fatality review board to follow

in creating and maintaining the comprehensive database of child deaths required by section 307.623 of the Revised Code , including provisions establishing uniform record-keeping procedures; (4) Establish guidelines for reporting child fatality review data to the department of

health or a national child death review database, either of which must maintain the

confidentiality of information that would permit a person's identity to be ascertained; (5) Establish guidelines, materials, and training to help educate members of county or

regional child fatality review boards about the purpose of the review process and

the confidentiality of the information described in section 307.629 of the Revised Code and to make them aware that such information is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code . (B) On or before the thirtieth day of September of each year, the department of health

and the department of children and youth jointly shall prepare and publish a report

organizing and setting forth the data from the department of health child death review

database or the national child death review database, data in all the reports provided

by county or regional child fatality review boards in their annual reports for the

previous calendar year, and recommendations for any changes to law and policy that

might prevent future deaths.  The department of health and the department of children and youth jointly shall

provide a copy of the report to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives,

the president of the senate, the minority leaders of the house of representatives

and the senate, each county or regional child fatality review board, and each county

or regional family and children first council.