A. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall have the authority to collect information sufficient to meet the administration’s needs related to oversight, management, evaluation, performance improvement and auditing of mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault services and combating and preventing mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault.
B. The individual forms, computer tapes and other forms of data collected by and furnished to the Department shall be confidential and shall not be public records as defined in the Open Records Act, Section 24A.1 et seq. of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
C. Except as otherwise provided by state and federal confidentiality laws, identifying information shall not be disclosed and shall not be used for any public purpose other than the creation and maintenance of anonymous datasets for statistical reporting and data analysis.