New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE
Chapter XIII - Office of Mental Health
Part 510 - Public Access To Records Of The Office Of Mental Health
Section 510.5 - Designation and responsibilities of records access officers
Universal Citation: 14 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 510.5
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) The records access officer of the Office of Mental Health's (OMH) central office shall be a lawyer in the office of counsel, designated by the Commissioner. The address for the records access officer is 44 Holland Avenue, Albany, New York 12229. The records access officer of each OMH operated psychiatric center is the facility director or his or her designee, who may be contacted at the business address of the applicable psychiatric center.
(b) The records access officer is responsible for:
(1) maintaining a reasonably detailed
current list, by subject matter, of records maintained by the
organization;
(2) assisting the
requester in identifying requested records, if necessary;
(3) determining the appropriateness of public
access to requested records;
(4)
providing documents to persons who have been granted access; and
(5) documenting denials of requests for
access and maintaining a file of such denials.
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