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Court rejects Connecticut officials' bid to keep secret a police report on hospital patient's death

Court rejects Connecticut officials' bid to keep secret a police report on hospital patient's death
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Court rejects Connecticut officials' bid to keep secret a police report on hospital patient's death

Police reports about deaths and other incidents in public hospitals cannot be kept secret, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, citing the importance of government transparency and the public's right to know what happened. A majority of the justices rejected an attempt by state officials to prevent the release of a police report about a patient who reportedly choked to death on food in 2016 while being restrained by staff members at Connecticut's only maximum-security psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. State officials argued the report was confidential under the patient-psychiatrist privilege as well as under the federal medical privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. ....

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