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Death certificates and vital records

States often separate death certificates from medicolegal autopsy reports, and control certified death certificates, limiting access to cause-of-death information

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Jan 25, 2026

What medical privacy rules limit public disclosure of law enforcement officers' injuries in shootings, and how have agencies handled such disclosures historically?

Federal medical-privacy law (the ) creates a default bar on releasing protected health information (PHI) but builds in a set of narrow, enumerated exceptions that allow or require covered entities to ...