[CindyDawg]

Since the GALs work for the state are their reports open records? I would like to see what the last one reported .

[supercat]

Since the GALs work for the state are their reports open records?

A GAL's actions are generally confidential, since the GAL must be given greater access to a the ward's property and records than would be any other government official. On the other hand, certain aspects of the trust fund were also supposed to be public records. I don't think there should be any broach of confidentiality if Terri's old GAL compares the current state of the trust fund records with what he filed, if he still has the records.

[GovernmentShrinker]

No, GALs work mostly on child custody and child abuise cases, which are certainly not public record proceedings. And Terri's right to privacy has not been cancelled by the intense public interest in her case.

[tutstar]

I've been trying to find it and so far no luck...I looked up the GAL phone number and only got his answering maching today. I am going to continue to try to contact him....

Michael has had much of the court info sealed I think....
If you're interested I've dug up a few things via internet...we need Dick Tracy though to catch these guys together!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1005175/posts
go to the end and work backwards some of the most peculiar things i found today

[sweetliberty]

"I would like to see what the last one reported ."

Some of that has been posted on other threads. Basically, he/she didn't agree with the death squad that Terri was vegetative so hubby dearest petitioned the court/aka Judge Greer, to have the GAL removed. That's the short version.

[iowamomforfreedom]

This is from the complaint filed with US Dist. Court on Aug. 30, 2003
http://www.zimp.org/complaint.pdf, page 19:

81. Moreover, in the state court proceedings initiated by defendant Michael Schiavo, Terri Schiavo, a severely disabled individual, had no guardian ad litem and no lawyer for most of the time.

82. Terri briefly did have the service of Richard L. Pearse, Esq., appointed by the court in 1998.

83. Attorney Pearse was dismissed from the case by the state court on motion by George J. Felos, Esq., the non-party co-conspirator herein, after the former filed a report concluding that Michael Schiavo had an irreconcilable conflict of interest due to Schiavo's relationship with another woman, his financial stake in Terri's death, and the fact that he tried to let Terri die of a urinary tract infection in 1993.

84. The state court proceedings which led to the Florida Second District Court of Appeals' fateful August 22, 2003 order severely prejudiced Terri's federal constitutional and statutory rights, which were never defended and in fact were violated. The violations included: a) ineffective assistance of counsel, b) due process violations, and c) blatant conflict of interest with Terri's guardian, defendant Michael Schiavo, as more fully set forth above.