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Archdiocese of St. Louis Sues Law Firm on Confidentiality of Documents
Midwest News • May 31, 2007
The Archdiocese of St. Louis is suing a law firm that handles clergy sex abuse cases, claiming it is improperly circulating confidential documents related to eight current or former priests.
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| Subject | Posted By | Posted On |
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| RE: RE: Confidentiality of Documents | Sister M. Immaculata Dunn | May 31, 2007, 7:21 pm |
| RE: Confidentiality of Documents | Anon | May 31, 2007, 6:22 pm |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF ST. LOUIS | Sister M. Immaculata Dunn | May 31, 2007, 4:41 pm |
| Confidentiality of Documents | M. Ryan DiMaria | May 31, 2007, 4:24 pm |
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Subject: RE: RE: Confidentiality of Documents
You are wrong.
These records do not have the same expectation of privacy or confidentiality as medical records, etc., although I know that archdiocesan officals would like us to think that is actually the case.
These church office files contain such things as transfers, requests, letters to one authority or another complaining about a particular priest. Many church officials are already in that loop so the expectation of confidentiality is really moot.
In many cases there are many, many complaints and yet, as we have read in Boston's cases, chancery officals told parents that there were no other complaints about Father So and So except for your complaint.
Go to bishopaccountability.org and read some of the Archdiocesan files from a place like Boston. We know, as well, that Cardinal Law lied, on paper and again in depositions he gave. Cardinal Mahony, although ordered to produce files in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, is not complying with the court's order.
I wonder why?