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Documents in the News - Kansas Teen Privacy Opinion

By MaryMcCormick

Judge J. Thomas Marten of the Federal District Court for the District of Kansas ruled yesterday (April 18, 2006) in a case that sought to prevent enforcement of Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline?s application of the state mandatory reporting statute, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 38-1522, through an Attorney General?s Opinion, to consensual underage sexual activity. The AG?s opinion required reporting of all consensual underage sexual activity as sexual abuse.  In its order, the court granted plaintiffs' request for a permanent injunction against enforcement of the interpretation, holding that "a plain reading of the statute vests mandatory reporters, such as health care providers, with discretion to determine when there is 'reason to suspect a child has been injured' as a result of sexual abuse."

Posted by Mary McCormick

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on April 19, 2006 (boomark / email).