(B) The department is authorized to grant access to the records of indicated cases to the following persons, agencies, or entities:

1. (1) the ombudsman of the office of the Governor or the Governor's designee;
2. (2) a person appointed as the child's guardian ad litem, the attorney for the child's guardian ad litem, or the child's attorney;
3. (3) appropriate staff of the department;
4. (4) a law enforcement agency investigating or prosecuting known or suspected abuse or neglect of a child or any other crime against a child, attempting to locate a missing child, investigating or prosecuting the death of a child, or investigating or prosecuting any other crime established in or associated with activities authorized under this article;
5. (5) a person who is named in a report or investigation pursuant to this article as having abused or neglected a child, that person's attorney, and that person's guardian ad litem;
6. (6) a child fourteen years of age or older who is named in a report as a victim of child abuse or neglect, except in regard to information that the department may determine to be detrimental to the emotional well-being of the child;
7. (7) the parents or guardians of a child who is named in a report as a victim of child abuse or neglect;
8. (8) county medical examiners or coroners who are investigating the death of a child;
9. (9) the State Child Fatality Advisory Committee and the Department of Child Fatalities in accordance with the exercise of their purposes or duties pursuant to Article 26, Chapter 7, Title 20;
10. (10) family courts conducting proceedings pursuant to this article;
11. (11) the parties to a court proceeding in which information in the records is legally relevant and necessary for the determination of an issue before the court, if before the disclosure the judge has reviewed the records in camera, has determined the relevancy and necessity of the disclosure, and has limited disclosure to legally relevant information under a protective order;
12. (12) a grand jury by subpoena upon its determination that access to the record is necessary in the conduct of its official business;
13. (13) authorities in other states conducting child abuse and neglect investigations or providing child welfare services;
14. (14) courts in other states conducting child abuse and neglect proceedings or child custody proceedings;
15. (15) the director or chief executive officer of a childcare facility, child placing agency, or child caring facility when the records concern the investigation of an incident of child abuse or neglect that allegedly was perpetrated by an employee or volunteer of the facility or agency against a child served by the facility or agency;
16. (16) a person or agency with authorization to care for, diagnose, supervise, or treat the child, the child's family, or the person alleged to have abused or neglected the child;
17. (17) any person engaged in bona fide research with the written permission of the state director or the director's designee, subject to limitations the state director may impose;
18. (18) multidisciplinary teams impaneled by the department or impaneled pursuant to statute;
19. (19) circuit solicitors and their agents investigating or prosecuting known or suspected abuse or neglect of a child or any other crime against a child, attempting to locate a missing child, investigating or prosecuting the death of a child, or investigating or prosecuting any other crime established in or associated with activities authorized under this article;
20. (20) prospective adoptive or foster parents before placement;
21. (21) the Division for the Review of the Foster Care of Children, Office of the Governor, for purposes of certifying in accordance with Section 20-7-2386 that no potential employee or no nominee to and no member of the state or a local foster care review board is a subject of an indicated report or affirmative determination.
22. (22) employees of the Division for the Review of the Foster Care of Children, Office of the Governor and members of local boards when carrying out their duties pursuant to Subarticle 4, Article 13; the department and the division shall limit by written agreement or regulation, or both, the documents and information to be furnished to the local boards.
23. (23) The Division of Guardian ad Litem, Office of the Governor, for purposes of certifying that no potential employee or volunteer is the subject of an indicated report or an affirmative determination.

(K) The department is authorized to maintain in its childcare regulatory records information about investigations of suspected child abuse or neglect occurring in childcare facilities.

1. (1) The department must enter child abuse or neglect investigation information in its regulatory record from the beginning of the investigation and must add updated information as it becomes available. Information in the regulatory records must include at least the date of the report, the nature of the alleged abuse or neglect, the outcome of the investigation, any corrective action required, and the outcome of the corrective action plan.
2. (2) The department's regulatory records must not contain the identity of the reporter or of the victim child.
3. (3) The identity of the perpetrator must not appear in the record unless the family court has confirmed the department's determination or a criminal prosecution has resulted in conviction of the perpetrator.
4. (4) Nothing in this subsection may be construed to limit the department's authority to use information from investigations of suspected child abuse or neglect occurring in childcare facilities to pursue an action to enjoin operation of a facility as provided in Article 13, Subarticle 11.
5. (5) Record retention provisions applicable to the department's child protective services case records are not applicable to information contained in regulatory records concerning investigations of suspected child abuse or neglect occurring in childcare facilities.