Back in December, Prakash Shama reported: NHS staff in Scotland will be provided tracking devices as their security has been threatened from stalkers. Under a new policy to ensure the safety of the NHS staff, the GPS technology will be employed, as announced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which has 44,000 employees. With the…
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AMA Responds to Wall Street Journal Lawsuit on Physician Payment Data
Leigh Page reports that the American Medical Association has issued a statement in response to a lawsuit filed by Dow Jones seeking to overturn a long-standing ruling that denied the press access to physicians’ Medicare payment records: In a statement, AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, argued that physicians have a right to keep complex…
Ca: E-mail access denial challenged by IPC
David Canton writes: When a government employee uses his or her workplace e-mail address to send and receive personal e-mails unrelated to their work, are those e-mails subject to disclosure to members of the public who request them under freedom of information legislation? Despite that these e-mails are generated on government computers, stored on government…
Post details: CA3: Drug testing of a mere “weed-wacker” in a highly regulated industry was still valid
John Wesley Hall of FourthAmendment.com does not agree with the court’s decision in Mollo v. Passaic Valley Sewerage Comm’rs. From the unpublished opinion: Here, PVSC demonstrated that Mollo was aware of the safety concerns inherent in work at its treatment plant and, as an entity, PVSC clearly satisfies PBA Local 304‘s alternative criterion of a “long tradition…