Patty Winsa reports: Power outages and downed tree limbs after the ice storm of 2013, residents without water for days on end following the deep freeze of 2015. These are the kind of crises that drive up calls to 311, the city hotline that typically deals with more mundane complaints, about garbage pickup, broken traffic lights…
Category: Healthcare
Schools Implant IUDs in Girls as Young as 6th Grade Without Their Parents Knowing
Steven Ertelt and Rebecca Downs write: Earlier this month, LifeNews.com reported on a high school in Seattle, Washington that is now implanting intrauterine devices (IUD), as well as other forms of birth control and doing so without parental knowledge or permission. The high school, Chief Sealth International, a public school, began offering the devices in 2010, made…
Feds may sue Utah over law aimed at protecting prescription drug records
Robert Gehrke reports: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration may take the state of Utah to court over a law that took effect earlier this year aimed at protecting the privacy of information in the state’s controlled-substance database. After discovering that law enforcement had abused the database, Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, sponsored the bill that…
EEOC Answers Some Questions About Wellness Programs
Robert W. Small writes: The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on an employee’s disability where a qualified employee can perform the essential functions of a job with or without reasonable accommodation. The ADA prohibits employers from soliciting medical information from employees which could be used to discriminate on the basis…