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.”
So I guess HIPAA doesn’t apply to cops…. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
one of my brothers lives there
I live right next door, Mary. I am in Kane county, but McHenry is just a couple of miles north of me. Huntley is 5 miles NW from my house.
I will add that this “judge” is a POS traitor and needs to go.
Ah, they like to wear blue, too, eh? They get really upset when you don’t kiss their arses, the same way pigs get butt hurt.
My daughter is a recently graduated rn and has this mentality. She mentioned “preparing for the peak” as if I should shower her with praise for being so “frontline”…same ego as pigs. They’re all agents of the state.
sorry your daughter got sucked into the health kill system
Thanks, Mary. It’s a shame that propaganda is ao effective. They both were smart up until just about 18, now they are full blown sheeple. That’s not how I reared them. Epic fail there.
Martist, this reminds me when my sister a couple weeks ago says, we just need to “flatten the curve.” Her tone was as if she had invented the phrase; some brilliant one.
Yeah, Katie, I am of the firm belief that commie-indoctrinated credentials really give some folks a false sense of higher intellect and superiority. The other thing I’ve noticed is they’re also usually the dumbest lemmings in the room. I found that out when a competitor moved nearby and was able to take a lot of business, even though it was abysmal. It was because the competition charged more. So we doubled our prices and crushed them. Penn state university campus students, almost 100% of them. Smrat, really smrat. 😉