Stephanie is a human-services policy analyst who works with the state-run psychiatric hospital system. Her job is to facilitate discharges of patients to the community by coordinating with local mental-health centers and providers of care to make sure that the patient has adequate and immediate post-discharge care. Stephanie received a call from a parole officer of a 25-year-old illegal-immigrant patient named Kevin, who was in the hospital. The parole officer indicated that Kevin violated parole by abusing illegal substances prior to the admission to the state hospital. The parole officer asked questions about Kevin's diagnoses, where he was being discharged to, and the staff involved in his care while hospitalized. You have been asked to determine if Stephanie can legally and ethically answer these questions and provide confidential health information about Kevin to the parole officer.

Based on your analysis of the codes of ethics and legal considerations in human services, create strategies to address questions about the case.

A. What information can be released to the parole officer? What information should not be released to the parole officer? Justify your responses.

B. what are the legal ramifications for the human services professional and her organization if information that is not supposed to be released is released ? Justify with relevant, scholarly research.

C. What ethical issues would arise for the human services professional and her organization due to releasing information that should not be released? what would be appropriate strategies to mitigate any ethical issues.

D. what other issues should be considered that are related to compliance with NOHS Ethical Standards and laws that govern in the human services field. Justify your claims