Some L.A. Priest Files Could Be Released

CBS 47
October 11, 2012

http://www.cbs47.tv/news/state/story/Some-L-A-priest-files-could-be-released/hudY4lPKqEuAQDOiqu6a4g.cspx

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles could turn over at least a dozen priest personnel files to a plaintiff's attorney within days after the California Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling ordering the release.

Archdiocese attorney J. Michael Hennigan said Thursday that the files will remain under a protective order.

The ruling doesn't apply to a larger pool of priest files that was part of a $660 million settlement with 550 plaintiffs.

Hennigan says those will be released publicly in three months and need to be heavily redacted.

Disclosure of the confidential files of molesting priests was part of the 2006 settlement agreement.

Victims, however, have waited six years to see any documents as attorneys representing individual priests have fought the release in court.