Sec. 9. 34-A MRSA §1203, sub-§5, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 459, §6, is amended to read:

B. The records and accounts may be released only as provided in section 3003 1216.

Sec. 10. 34-A MRSA §1216 is enacted to read:

§1216. Confidentiality of information

1.__Limited disclosure.__ All orders of commitment, medical and administrative records, applications and reports, and facts contained in them, pertaining to any person receiving services from the department must be kept confidential and may not be disclosed by any person, except that public records must be disclosed in accordance with Title 1, section 408; criminal history record information may be disseminated in accordance with Title 16, chapter 3, subchapter 8; and documents other than those documents pertaining to information obtained by the department for the purpose of evaluating a client's ability to participate in a community-based program or from informants in a correctional or detention facility for the purpose of determining whether facility rules have been violated or pertaining to a victim's request for notice of release may, and must upon request, be disclosed:

A.__To any person if the person receiving services, that person's legal guardian, if any, and, if that person is a minor, that person's parent or legal guardian give informed written consent to the disclosure of the documents referred to in this subsection after being given the opportunity to review the documents sought to be disclosed;

B.__To any state agency if necessary to carry out the statutory functions of that agency;

C.__If ordered by a court of record, subject to any limitation in the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 503;