WHAT ARE THEY
HIDING???
Newtown seeks to deny
newspapers access to death certificates
By Ralph Lopez
By Ralph
Lopez.
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The
Newtown, Connecticut Town Clerk is seeking to deny newspapers from viewing
public record death certificates of Sandy Hook victims, according to the
Newtown Bee.
The Clerk
maintains that access to vital records such as death and marriage certificates
should be limited to immediate family members or their representatives, and has
undertaken to change present law.
The New
York Post, the Connecticut Post, the Associated Press,
the Hartford Courant, and other media have put forth requests for
official death certificates of Sandy Hook victims, the
Newton Bee report says. Newtown Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia says she is
working with State Representatives Dan
Carter, Mitch Bolinsky,
and the leadership of the state association of town clerks to
craft state legislation:
"that
would provide the press and public with limited directory information from
death and marriage records, but would withhold the actual death and marriage
certificates."
Death
certificates are part of vital public records, which also include birth and marriage
certificates. They are public domain documents used, ultimately, to determine
official recognition of presence or past presence in civil society. They also
serve as a mechanism for upholding the integrity of information in which there
is a public interest, as it relates to voting, citizenship, and receiving
public benefits. Abuses of voting processes involving voters who, unbeknownst
to the public, are actually dead, are legendary.
Death
certificates typically contain little information about manner of death beyond
categories such as "natural cause," "homicide,"
"accident," "suicide," or "other." News
organizations utilize such records in crime reporting as a standard part of
normal, often tedious, fact-checking procedures. Death certificates also contain
the sworn statement of the medical examiner.
The
Newtown Bee stated:
"Ms
Aurelia said she has received requests for death certificates and other
proprietary information from the New York Post , the Connecticut
Post , the Associated Press and the Hartford Courant
among others."
"Some
are also requesting all my e-mail correspondence and text messages related to
12/14," she said."
According
to the Newtown Bee, Assistant Town Clerk Renee Weimann said "I feel it’s
my responsibility to protect these victims. They’ve been through enough.” Last
December 14th, 20 children and 8 adults died in a shooting rampage by alleged
shooter Adam Lanza.
Ms
Aurelia and members of her staff testified in favor of such a bill at a hearing
of the state's Public Health Committee last February 20th. The law would also
exclude members of the public who are not "immediate family/authorized
agency/attorney" from viewing the records, according to the Newtown Bee.
The Bee
reported that the media and other sources have been making the requests under
existing Freedom of Information Act laws. Media can take local, state, and
federal government agencies to court over failure to comply with requests for
information.
The move
comes as the public awaits the answers to questions such as whether or not
alleged shooter Adam Lanza was
on any psychiatric medications, especially those known as SSRIs which some
psychiatrists maintain have been associated with thousands of incidents of random
violence, and have a causal effect. Also lacking is any further elaboration on
a Connecticut State's
Attorney's statement last December, in a court motion, that there may be
other "potential suspects," and that revealing certain evidence at
this time might "seriously jeopardize" the investigation. Connecticut
State's Attorney Stephen
Sedensky also said that revealing certain evidence at this time might:
"identify
persons cooperating with the investigation, thus possibly jeopardizing their
personal safety and well-being."
Yesterday
the Hartford Courant ran a report in which Jim Smith, president of the
Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information, said a death certificate is a
factual document that lacks the details of an autopsy report. The Courant
quotes Smith saying:
“There
isn’t anything in a death certificate that is going to hurt the deceased...it’s
not like an autopsy report. It’s been public for centuries. It’s not going to
invade anyone’s privacy.’’
CT State
Representatives Bolinsky and Carter, and Newtown Town Clerk Aurelia, all
argued, according to the Courant, that identify theft was a
concern, since the maiden name of the deceased's mother is on death
certificates. However, this is also on birth certificates, which are not a
target of the trio. Also, the proposed legislation would seal the death records
only of minors under 18. It is unclear why identity thieves would not merely
steal the identities of people over that age.
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/343981#ixzz2LqSYJmSS
1 comment:
I believe it is worse than that. Take a look at that barking seal of a medical examiner - grinning and gyrating like an idiot in the press conference. According to this website, he had attempted to get legislation barring release of death certificates in homicides. This tells me this was planned years in advance with collusion from the highest levels. Cover up much?
More on Sandy Hook’s creepy medical examiner
Excerpt: Prior to Dr. H Wayne Carver threatening his resignation in February 2011, Carver put in a request to congress, to pass the provision of Bill 1054. This Bill would prevent the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner from unilaterally disclosing autopsy reports on pediatric homicides to the general public.
http://www.insanemedia.net/corruption-in-connecticut-medical-examiner-dr-h-wayne-carver/1362
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