R21-1-105. Procedures for Processing a Request for DCS Information from a Person or Entity Providing Services in Official Capacity

A. The Department shall release DCS Information without charging the fee required by R21-1-110 when a person or entity entitled to receive DCS Information requires information to: 1. Meet its duties to provide for the safety, permanency, and well-being of a child; 2. Provide services to the child, parent, guardian, custodian, or family members to strengthen the family; 3. Enforce or prosecute a violation of child abuse or neglect laws; 4. To help investigate and prosecute any violation involving domestic violence as defined in A.R.S. § 13-3601, or violent sexual assaults as defined in A.R.S. § 13-1423; 5. Provide DCS Information to a defendant as required by an order of the criminal court; or 6. Provide DCS Information to: a. A juvenile, domestic relations, family or conciliation court; b. The parties or their attorneys in a dependency, guardianship, or termination of parental rights proceeding; c. The FCRB; d. A CASA; or e. A person that provides oversight of DCS. B. Before releasing DCS Information under this Section, the Department shall determine that the person requesting DCS Information is a person entitled to receive DCS Information under this Section and A.R.S. § 8-807. C. Within 30 workdays of the receipt date, the Department shall provide the requester with one of the following written responses: 1. The requested DCS Information; 2. A statement that the requested DCS Information does not exist; 3. A statement that the Department cannot provide the requested DCS Information within 30 workdays, the reason for the delay, and the anticipated time-frame for response; or 4. A statement that the Department cannot release the requested DCS Information, with the statutory citation and the reason for the denial.