On or before January 1, 2023, emergency medical service providers, emergency departments, state and local law enforcement agencies, sheriffs’ offices, and coroners may participate in the web-based overdose detection mapping application program to report incidences of fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses and synthetic opiate poisonings. Emergency departments, state and local law enforcement agencies, sheriffs’ offices, and coroners are encouraged to report data not more than twenty-four hours after the incident or after receiving the incident toxicology report. All incident data must be made available to the department. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, law enforcement shall not use data from the overdose detection mapping application program for welfare checks, warrant checks, or criminal investigations.
C.R.S. § 25-20.5-1601
Overdose detection mapping application program
Known as the Child Fatality Prevention Act
The act spans §§ 25-20.5-1001 to 25-20.5-903 (55 sections).
Digitized from: Public.Law — Colorado Revised Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Colorado statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.