re: All You Trolls Who Believe Pinkel and Coaching Staff Protecting DGB

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So you have a volunteer sitting at the phone at a RCC and someone calls alleging rape, and the volunteer is going to make the determination that it should not be reported?

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Read any rape crisis manual and see what they say about police reporting and consent. Read public policy interpretations of HIPAA with regards to the same question. Or read the VAWA act of 1995.

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Although HIPAA permits disclosure of protected health information of a victim of domestic violence without her consent in certain, limited circumstances, it does not require it, and advocacy agencies can help medical providers understand that they should rarely, if ever, share a victim's protected health information with government authorities unless absolutely required to do so.

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