Editorial: Anderson County sheriff should release medical records of inmate’s death to family
FOIFT2018-10-24T15:21:19-05:00Palestine Herald-Press Editorial Originally published Oct. 19, 2018 Over the last two months, Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor has throttled every information source within reach that could shed light on prisoner Rhonda Newsome's death. Now, by withholding Newsome's medical records from her family, Taylor is not only stretching the limits of state public information laws to stiff the Herald-Press, but also ignoring federal regulations on the security of health information. He is becoming a law onto himself. On Oct. 4, Anderson County rejected a legally sound request from Newsome's son, Regan Kimbrough, for his mother's medical records during the three months [...]