Posted on 04/16/2020 11:29:11 AM PDT by Morgana
April 16, 2020 (CNS News) – The McHenry County, Illinois, Health Department (MCHD) had refused to provide the names of all coronavirus (COVID-19) patients to police – but, on Friday, Judge Michael Chmiel ruled the MCHD must do so.
The McHenry County state’s attorney’s office had sued MCHD to force it to begin supplying patients’ names to local law enforcement, prompting the judge’s ruling, The Chicago Tribune reports:
“On Friday, McHenry County Judge Michael Chmiel entered a temporary restraining order mandating that the Health Department disclose to police the names of those actively infected with COVID-19.”
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“The Health Department refused to reveal the names, prosecutors stated in a news release. Health departments have typically cited privacy concern in withholding such information, specifically the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.”
“While we are compelled to provide the information,” MCDH said in a statement released Saturday, it remains the health department’s “professional health opinion” that providing patients’ identities to police is excessive:
“In MCDH’s professional public health opinion, given what we know about how this disease spreads, the general lack of testing, epidemiological data and the stay-at-home order, providing the personal names of cases exceeds the minimum information needed to protect law enforcement.
“Five law enforcement agencies disagreed and filed suit, demanding the names of patients having tested positive. Friday evening, the court issued a temporary order to release the names. While we are compelled to provide this information, MCDH has requested the tightest control of this private medical information, whereby it will be provided only to the Emergency Telephone System Board (ETSB-911) for dissemination on a call-by-call basis.”
On April 2, 2020 McHenry County posted a video to its YouTube page featuring police officers and other public servants telling residents to “Stay Home McHenry County.”
Well well well
So HPPA is also out the window
Nasty little secret - HIPAA only applies to normal people and companies. The government is specifically exempted.
This dumbass judge has just committed a Federal offense.
A Commie judge here in Yuma County AZ did the same thing last week. The ruling is being appealed as we speak.
I hate Illinois Nazi’s
How about names also of all HIV positive
What will the police do with the information? Seems like violence may result in this activity.
This is another account of the same story as the reason. Not sure I have that much of a problem with it, but how they go about doing this is another issue.
....The information would be relayed to responding officers on each call as necessary to help them protect their health, Prim said.
Not the least bit.
“This dumbass judge has just committed a Federal offense.”
Which?
Should be no reason for this if LE are wearing masks and gloves. Maybe mark the house in some way. I think it’s been done before.
Chuck the black robed commie in general population with Cleotus and Bubba for violating HIPPA.
Also throw the commie governor of KY in with him for defying a federal restraining order, hate crimes, and civil rights violations.
Could never get our state’s health dept to even tell us how many active TB cases they were treating - and now this judge wants names released to LE?
I remember from the 40s/50s of quarantines because of measles or such.
If one had already had the disease, they were allowed to leave.
All I ‘remember’ of Polio was ‘March of Dimes’ and pictures of kids in Iron lungs not sure if any quarantines involved.
I do know that when AIDS sprung up that eventually infected people were allowed to go about normally and handle food.
Having grown up in the measles/mumps/polio etc it did seem strange to see the ‘freedoms’ that AIDS ‘carriers’ were allowed.
This will result in people not being tested
Let the litigation begin.
Sigh.
Right... I don’t want a yellow star on my door.
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