District court juror pool summons adds optional Q&A check boxes to the *back* side of summons form:
(Paraphrased)
Vaxxed, or Not Vaxed?
Which Vax? (MRNA. PHIZER, J&J)
How many Vax doses from which of the above?
When vaxed?
Among the answers can also be; 1) N/A; 2) “Prefer not to say.”
I’m on a “potential” list until September.
Federal court.
Haven’t heard anything since I completed the questionnaire.
I assume this questionare could become public during jury selection?
Cross out the entire section write in: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191.
Private medical information. I am not the subject of a judicial or administrative proceeding and will not comply.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html
“Judicial and Administrative Proceedings. Covered entities may disclose protected health information in a judicial or administrative proceeding if the request for the information is through an order from a court or administrative tribunal. Such information may also be disclosed in response to a subpoena or other lawful process if certain assurances regarding notice to the individual or a protective order are provided.33”
“Disclosures and Requests for Disclosures. Covered entities must establish and implement policies and procedures (which may be standard protocols) for routine, recurring disclosures, or requests for disclosures, that limits the protected health information disclosed to that which is the minimum amount reasonably necessary to achieve the purpose of the disclosure. Individual review of each disclosure is not required. For non-routine, non-recurring disclosures, or requests for disclosures that it makes, covered entities must develop criteria designed to limit disclosures to the information reasonably necessary to accomplish the purpose of the disclosure and review each of these requests individually in accordance with the established criteria.”