---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 11186"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "11186"
heading: "Confidentiality of program records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/11186"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter II — Programs and Offices"
  - "Part F — General and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §11186. Confidentiality of program records


Except as authorized by law, program records containing the identity of individual juveniles gathered for purposes pursuant to this subchapter may not be disclosed without the consent of the service recipient or legally authorized representative, or as may be necessary to carry out this subchapter. Under no circumstances may program reports or findings available for public dissemination contain the actual names of individual service recipients.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–415, title II, § 299E, formerly § 296, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7266(4), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4450; renumbered § 299E, Pub. L. 102–586, § 2(i)(1)(B), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5006.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5676 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1988, see section 7296(a) of Pub. L. 100–690, set out as an Effective Date of 1988 Amendment note under section 11101 of this title.