CA Supreme Court Expands Disclosure About Treatment Facilities

The California Supreme Court has ruled that health officials must provide more information about the citations given to facilities found to be lax in treating developmentally and mentally ill people, Sacramento Bee's Denny Walsh reports. The unanimous court ruled that the state Department of Public Health provided too little information in response to a public-records request about citations issued against the seven largest state-owned-and-operated treatment facilities, Walsh further reports. The DOH argued that another law required heavy redactions in order to protect the privacy of the patients, but the Supreme Court ruled that the state Long-Term Act was a special exception.