AG’s: Yes, it is legal to keep adult vaccine records
Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Winder, R-Boise, and House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, during the 2021 legislative session.
(OTTO KITSINGER/Idaho Capital Sun)
Republican leaders in the Idaho Legislature this year accused the state of unlawfully keeping vaccination records and said the records should be destroyed.
But a response from the Idaho Attorney General’s Office told them they were wrong.
House and Senate Republican leaders on April 9 sent a letter to Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden that claimed the state’s Immunization Reminder Information System wasn’t allowed to keep records of vaccines received by adults. They said Idaho laws and regulations allowed IRIS only to keep records on childhood vaccines administered to children, and that the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare should destroy records of adult immunizations.
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