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GOV'T OVERSIGHT COMM. v. DEP'T OF HEALTH

Docket: Ken-23-61.

327 A.3d 1115 (2024)

2024 ME 81

GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: December 26, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua D. Dunlap, Esq. (orally), Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, for appellant Government Oversight Committee.

Thomas A. Knowlton, Deputy Attorney General, Ariel Piers-Gamble, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Hunter C. Umphrey, Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Bangor, for appellee Department of Health and Human Services.

Concurrence: LAWRENCÉ, J.

[¶1] This case involves a dispute between the Government Oversight Committee of the 131st Maine Legislature and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services over access to confidential Department records relating to the deaths of four children in 2021. When the Department declined to produce the records in response to a Committee...

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