Section 49-6-110 - Confidentiality of records; rulemaking; requirements(a) The State Police shall promulgate rules according § 29A-3-1et seq. of this code to provide for the classification of information and records as confidential that:(1) Are otherwise confidential under state or federal law or rules promulgated pursuant to state or federal law;(2) Are related to the investigation by a law-enforcement agency of a missing child, a missing and endangered child, or an unidentified body, if the State Police, in consultation with the law-enforcement agency, determines that release of the information would be deleterious to the investigation;(3) Are records or notations that the clearinghouse maintains for internal use in matters relating to missing children or missing and endangered children and unidentified bodies and the State Police determines that release of the internal documents might interfere with an investigation by a law-enforcement agency in West Virginia or any other jurisdiction; or(4) Are records or information that the State Police determines might interfere with an investigation or otherwise harm a child or custodian.(b) The rules may provide for the sharing of confidential information with the custodian of the missing child or missing and endangered child: Provided, That confidential information, which is not believed to jeopardize an investigation, must be shared with the custodian when the legal custodian is the Department of Human Services.(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the Department of Human Services may share confidential information with any law-enforcement agency and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the case of a child who runs away from home or is determined missing.Amended by 2024 Acts, ch. TBD (SB 768), eff. 6/6/2024.Amended by 2024 Acts, ch. TBD (HB 4274), eff. 1/22/2024.Amended by 2020 Acts, ch. 42 (HB 4415), eff. 6/3/2020.Added by 2015 Acts, ch. 46 (HB 2200), eff. 2/19/2015.