New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 14 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
Part 23 - CONFIDENTIALITY OF CLIENT RECORDS
Section 8.14.23.10 - REQUESTS FOR MEDICAL OR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RECORDS

When a request for medical or behavioral health records is received by the OGC records custodian, it must be accompanied by a current and valid signed HIPAA release. An access to records request form is also required if the disclosure is to be made to the person who is the subject of the records, signed by the person making the request. These forms are in addition to the request for disclosure of confidential information form required for all records requests. Juvenile justice services clients over fourteen years of age must sign their own release forms for behavioral health records, pursuant to the New Mexico mental health and developmental disabilities code.