Doe v. Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners

CATHELL, Judge.

This case raises issues as to the extent of the privilege, and confidentiality of records, in respect to conversations between licensed social workers and their clients and the records of the social worker when there is an alleged unlawful failure on the part of the certified private social worker to report suspected child abuse by a client and the Board of Social Work Examiners thereafter seeks to subpoena the social worker’s treatment records of clients pursuant to its investigation into the licensing of the social worker.

*166On or about July 20, 2001, the Board of Social Work…