Police records suit in the judge's hands; Disclosures in Rojas case to be decided.
Byline: Thomas Caywood WORCESTER - The question of whether the public's right to know about allegations of police misconduct against Officer Mark A. Rojas outweighs the privacy rights of people who wish to keep their complaints confidential is now in the hands of Superior Court Judge C....

Patient photographed without consent: court says patient's privacy rights were violated.
A pharmacy intern used his cell phone to photograph a classmate on a hospital patient-care floor. In the photograph background was a patient being attended by a group of medical interns and other hospital staff. The patient's nurse insisted the pharmacy intern delete the photo from his...

Prisoner's letters are focus of pretrial issue; Evidence in '07 shooting or suspect's privacy?
Byline: Gary V. Murray WORCESTER - A prison inmate accused of waging a letter-writing campaign in an effort to intimidate witnesses in a pending shooting case is asking a judge to bar prosecutors from using the letters in question as evidence against him. Nakia D....

National Association of Professional Background Screeners Releases Best Practices Guides for Outsourced Verifications and Requests for Proposal.
Guides Offer Professional Direction for Employers and Human Resources Personnel MORRISVILLE, N.C., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS(R)), the foremost advocacy organization in the industry, has introduced two best practices guides for employers. The first is, "Verifications Best Practices: What Clients...

National Association of Professional Background Screeners Encourages Employee Background Screening in Declining Job Market.
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS(R)), the foremost advocacy organization in the industry, is reinforcing the importance of organizations conducting background screening on individuals they consider for employment. According to NAPBS, professional background screening, which is crucial during any economic environment,...

European Privacy Laws A Stumbling Block For ASIC.
Nick Hart looks at how European rights to privacy have recently dealt a blow to ASIC's requests in the UK to obtain information for its investigations in connection with the infamous Offset Alpine affair. The Offset Alpine affair The Offset Alpine affair has attracted much public attention...

State regulation of sexuality in international human rights law and theory.
ABSTRACT In Part I, this Article presents the first published, worldwide survey of international practice in interpreting and applying various international human rights norms to the issue of sexual freedom, with a special emphasis on the rights to privacy, family life, and freedom from arbitrary discrimination based...

Private Access and Genetic Alliance Partner.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 August 2008-Private Access and Genetic Alliance Partner(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Private Access and Genetic Alliance said they have formed a novel public-private partnership designed to simultaneously protect patients' privacy rights while creating a faster and more cost effective way for researchers to...

Managing the quagmire of counseling in a school: bringing the parents onboard.
The American School Counselor Association's Ethical Standards for School Counselors respects parents' rights and responsibilities toward their children and at the same time addresses confidentiality as the professional school counselor's primary responsibility. Educating parents and students about privacy, confidentiality, and privileged communication helps the professional school counselor avoid misunderstandings...

Unconstitutional conditional release: a pyrrhic victory for arrestees' privacy rights under United States v. Scott.
INTRODUCTION In United States v. Scott, the Ninth Circuit held that the common criminal procedure practice of conditioning pretrial release on the arrestee's consent to warrantless searches was an unconstitutional violation of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. (1) Some observers quickly heralded the...