How your child’s immunization records are collected in Kentucky LINK nky
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A Boone County High School parent’s concerns with a state immunization registry have uncovered a need for more awareness about how the registry is used and who can access it.
Melinda McGriffin told LINK nky she became concerned about the registry when she tried several times to sign her child up for school, which starts Aug. 15, via the district’s online registration system and couldn’t complete the process.
She initially thought registration had been denied because she refused to check a box on the online form allowing the district to share her child’s vaccinations with the Kentucky Immunization Registry or KYIR – a state database of adult and child immunization records overseen by the Kentucky Department of Public Health since 2015.
