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Newspaper seeks locations of chickenpox outbreaks
Updated 5:57 pm, Tuesday, July 21, 2015
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ? The Portland Press Herald on Tuesday sued the Maine Department of Health and Human Services over its refusal to identify schools where chickenpox outbreaks occurred.
The newspaper was rejected when it asked the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to identify the schools while reporting on the highest number of outbreaks since the chickenpox vaccine became mandatory for school attendance in 2003...
Posted Yesterday at 5:46 PM
Updated October 2
Maine releases chickenpox outbreak records after Press Herald sues
The newspaper sought to find out which schools reported the disease in 2014-2015 in order to let the communities know.
By Joe Lawlor Staff Writer jlawlor@pressherald.com | @joelawlorph | 207-791-6376
The state on Friday released the names of three schools and a day care center where chickenpox outbreaks occurred during the 2014-15 school year, the result of a court settlement between the Portland Press Herald and the Department of Health and Human Services.
The newspaper sued DHHS in Cumberland County Superior Court in July, after the agency refused to release records held by one of its divisions, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, citing patient privacy.
On Friday, the Maine Attorney General?s Office handed over the records...
