Permitted Disclosure of De-identified Birth Information

The Department may release de-identified birth information to: (A) Authorized employees or authorized agents of the Department or the Executive Office of Health and Human Services for administrative, statistical or research purposes; and (B) Any person upon request, subject to any applicable fees for requests for public records, and provided that the information is in a statistical format established by the Department and that the Department has already publicly released such data, except that a public health authority may receive such data prior to public release provided that the public health authority does not publish or otherwise release the data before the Department has publicly released the data.