Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 5, 2012

Last year, the Sarasota, Florida Sheriff?s Office approached thirty local doctors and invited them to join a criminal conspiracy to undermine several amendments in the Bill of Rights and a federal health privacy law called HIPPA.

The Sheriff?s Office provided doctors with a form entitled ?Authorization for Release of Protected Health Information? through which a patient ?knowingly and voluntarily agrees to the release of any and all protected health information for any and all purposes,? as well as waiving ?any doctor-client privilege.? The physician would agree to surrender all patient information ?upon either request by law enforcement, the State Attorney?s Office or any other prosecuting authority, or code enforcement?.?

Information of the kind made available through this waiver can only be obtained through a search warrant or a subpoena. That this document constituted a deliberate attempt to defraud patients is made clear by the fact that it didn?t indicate in any way that it had been composed by a law enforcement agency.

Public defender Mark Adams correctly calls this campaign ?a blatant violation of the Constitution.? It is typical of the dishonest and illegal means routinely employed by law enforcement to  obtain citizen information to which they are not entitled.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.