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California: Medical Records of Prisoner Being Evaluated for Civil Commitment Not Constitutionally Protected from Disclosure

Loaded on May 15, 2013

Filed under: Medical Records, Mental Health, Civil Commitment. Location: California.

The Ninth Circuit has held that the medical records of a California prisoner being evaluated for civil commitment under California's Sexually Violent Predator Act, Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 6600-6609, are not constitutionally protected from disclosure.

Convicted in 1986 of various sex offenses and sentenced to 31 years in …

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