A friend of mine saw a known child molester working at a local Truck Stop near our home as a janitor. When she confronted the manager to ask if he realized this man was a child molester she was told he was not able to ask questions like that due to HIPPA. This man has access to children and bathrooms....Not all parents watch their children as carefully as they should. Has anyone heard of this or know where I could find more information?
Please serious answers only...there is nothing funny about this question.
Peace.
2007-11-13 00:23:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
That is a load of crap. Any medical information is private, so if that person attended therapy, etc. it would be protected by HIPPA. If someone has been convicted of child molestation, then any information about that conviction is public information. They are also required to register as a sex offender, and all of that info can be looked up on sex offender watchdog websites. I'm not sure what the manager's problem was with sharing the information, but he is full of it. People like that really piss me off!
To the person who wants me to pull my head out of "my cop husband's butt," I don't know if you have any children, but I sure would like to think that it would be of some concern to you if there was a convicted child molestor who was working with the public where they could come into contact with your or someone else's children. If you heard about the things that I get to hear about on a daily basis from my "cop husband" about what happens to innocent little children, it would make you sick. I am not insinuating that a 16 year old sleeping with a 17 year old is any great danger to society. I am saying that HIPPA laws do not protect sex offenders, plain and simple, and the manager was not honest when he said he could not answer that question. It is public information. Anyone can look it up and see what the person had done. If the lady asking him that question knew what he had done, then obviously she thought it was serious enough to ask the manager about it.
2007-11-13 00:54:07 · answer #1 · answered by Starr 7 · 7⤊ 3⤋
HIPPA forbids disclosure of medical treatment information. If the manager had knowledge of any treatment this man had or was undergoing, he could not disclose that, but It does not deal with molesters
2007-11-13 00:29:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The only response I can make legally to your post is that the response you were given was correct.
The personal response would be regarding your statement "not all parents watch their children as carefully as they shoud."
And that sounds like an excuse, not a reason. Unpopular as it might seem, even sex offenders have the right to earn a living.
IN RESPONSE TO STARR:
If that is your response and you believe it, then I pity you.
Or are you saying that the 17 year old who had sex with his 16 year old girlfriend and was convicted of 'fornication' in virginia and who is now a sex-offender has no right to a productive life?
Pull your head out of your cop-husband's butt and live in the real world. There are more than 15,000 registered sex offenders on various state lists whose only crime was something as menial as public urination.
2007-11-13 00:46:07 · answer #3 · answered by hexeliebe 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I don't really know but I think they should make a background check before employing someone.
2007-11-13 01:27:47 · answer #4 · answered by zul 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋