Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth v. Department of Public Welfare

The Court emphasized in Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth v. Department of Public Welfare, 855 A.2d 159, 165 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2004), Section 6340(b) "plainly and unambiguously" limits the release of information to a subject of the report to that maintained in the Statewide central register or in any report filed pursuant to Section 6313. Consequently, S.C. is not entitled to receive any other information in the county agency's investigatory file. In Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth, the Court observed that 55 Pa. Code 3490.91(a)(12) conflicts with Section 6340(a) of the Law because Section 6340(a) does not list a subject of a report as one of the 17 individuals permitted to receive the confidential information. In that case, however, the county agency acknowledged that it had the duty to provide all the information specified in oral and written reports to the subject of the report, and it asserted only that it received no such report. Noting that the subject of the report "received all information due to him under Section 6340(b) of the Law," the Court reversed the Bureau's discovery order. Dauphin County Soc. Servs. for Children & Youth, 855 A.2d at 165.