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Sheriff Can't Release AIDS Test Results
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1991, page 6
Sheriff Can't Release Aids Test Results
Filed under:
HIV/AIDS,
Medical Records,
Civil Procedure,
State Law Claims,
Disclosure of Records.
Location:
Michigan.
While awaiting transfer from a county jail to an Alabama prison, a convicted prisoner was given the opportunity to voluntarily submit to an AIDS test. he did so, but only after being assured by the county health officials that the results of such test …
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