DOE v. SOCIAL WORK

No. 18 September Term., 2004.

862 A.2d 996 (2004)

384 Md. 161

JANE DOE, et al. v. MARYLAND BOARD OF SOCIAL WORK EXAMINERS.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 9, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy F. Maloney (Cary J. Hansel and Brian J. Markovitz of Joseph, Greenwald & Laake P.A., Greenbelt), on brief for petitioners.

Janet Klein Brown, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., of Maryland, Baltimore), on brief for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, and GREENE, JJ.


CATHELL, Judge.

This case raises issues as to the extent of the privilege, and confidentiality of records, in respect to conversations between licensed social workers and their clients and the records of the social worker when there is an alleged unlawful failure on the part of the certified private social worker to report suspected child abuse by a client and the Board of Social Work Examiners thereafter seeks to subpoena the social worker's treatment records of...

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