When gun owners apply for concealed carry permits in Mecklenburg County, sheriff’s office background checks have sometimes turned up sensitive health information, including whether a person has had an abortion or has a sexually transmitted disease… The sheriff’s office, through a spokesperson, said the agency has no control over what information health providers choose to send. In a statement, MCSO said the records sent are dependent on the provider’s discretion. [More]
They can’t specify the information they want? And the providers don’t have policies and procedures in place approved by their risk managment departments to only provide what is required by law?
And why the hell is this required by law anyway?
[Via Jess]
I suspect it’s not that the medicos don’t have rules in place, they’re violating them, probably due to ignorance (with perhaps more than a touch of DEI). This is all probably covered under HIPAA.