Franciscan Pedophile Priest Files will be released within months

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Read the entire document at Leagle filed by California Court of Appeals 2nd District yesterday.

Patient privilege does not apply to documents dealing with coverup of sex abuse or information critical to public safety of children, agrees the 2nd district court, denying the Catholic Church's appeal argument that communications between the brothers and psychiatrists about perpetrator priests were protected by patient privelege. The cases settled in 2006.

So Franciscans of Santa Barbara will have to give up their personnel files of their pedophile priests soon. City of Angels Blog will run more on the decision shortly. Here is coverage so far:

Court: Make records public in friars' sex cases
The Associated Press - Gillian Flaccus - LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court ruled Thursday that psychiatric and other confidential records of Franciscan friars accused of sex abuse should be ...

Court Orders Release of Therapy Reports Franciscan Friars Kept on Alleged ... Law.com - Kate Moser - ‎A California appeal court today authorized the public release of confidential files on Franciscan friars accused of sexual abuse. The friars had fought the ...

Court of Appeal Upholds Order Releasing Priests' Records
Metropolitan News-Enterprise - ‎By a MetNews Staff Writer Psychiatric and other confidential records of priests whose molestation of children resulted in lawsuits against their order may ...

IN RE CLERGY CASES I Leagle.com - ‎Howie & Smith, Robert G. Howie and Audrey Smith for Defendants and Appellants Samuel Charles Cabot, Mario Cimmarusti, David Johnson, Gus Krumm, Gary Pacheco ...

Sex Case Court Orders Friars' Psych Files Bared Newser - Rob Quinn - ‎Face it, there's too much news. Newser cuts through the clutter, selects the best stories from hundreds of sources, ...
Calif. court orders accused friars' records released USA Today - ‎LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court has ruled that psychiatric and other confidential records of Franciscan friars accused of sex abuse should be ...