219.061. Aiding runaway, penalty--peace officers, duty of--records confidential, exceptions, penalty for divulging--division may sue for damages.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

219.061. Aiding runaway, penalty--peace officers, duty of--records confidential, exceptions, penalty for divulging--division may sue for damages.

Aiding runaway, penalty--peace officers, duty of--recordsconfidential, exceptions, penalty for divulging--division maysue for damages.

219.061. 1. Any person who knowingly permits or aids anychild to run away from an institution under the control of thedivision or conceals the child with intent of enabling him toelude pursuit is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction,shall be punished as provided by law.

2. It shall be the duty of every law enforcement official,and any official who is designated by the division, to detain,with or without a warrant, any child who shall have run away froma facility and to hold him subject to the orders of the division.

3. Disclosure of any information contained in the recordsof the division relating to any child committed to it shall bemade only in accordance with regulations prescribed by thedivision, provided that such regulations shall provide for fulldisclosure of such information to the parents or guardians, or ifthey be out of this state to the nearest immediate relative ofsuch child, upon reasonable notice and demand and to the childfatality review panel reviewing the death of a child pursuant tosection 210.192, RSMo. Any employee or officer of the divisionwho shall communicate any such information in violation of anysuch regulations may be subject to immediate discharge.

4. For all damages to the division or to any property, realor personal, belonging thereto, actions may be maintained in thename of the division as such, and all damages levied in suchactions shall be paid into the state treasury and, uponappropriation, shall be used by the division.