The Project on Addressing Prison Rape has developed a fifty state surveys of state criminal laws for confidentiality in a variety of sexual abuse response professions, including mental health and rape crisis/ sexual assault counselors, in order to increase understanding about legal responses and sanctions available for sexual abuse in custodial settings. We try to update these surveys yearly.
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Fifty-State Confidentiality Law Survey
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