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  • Title: Florida public health workers maintained illegal HIV lists.
    Journal: AIDS Policy Law; 1996 Oct 18; 11(19):11. PubMed ID: 11363938.
    Abstract:
    The Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services ordered the Pinellas County public health office to stop keeping illegal lists of individuals who are HIV-positive. Under State law, public health departments are only authorized to maintain lists of people who develop AIDS, not those who test positive for HIV antibodies. The problem surfaced when an anonymous person sent copies of a computer disk containing the names of nearly 4,000 HIV-positive individuals to the Pinellas County Health Department and two newspapers. The tipster claimed the disk came from a Pinellas public health worker who mislaid it in a gay bar. A Tampa newspaper also reports that health workers in other Florida counties are maintaining illegal lists of people who are HIV-positive. This leak of confidential information is likely to complicate the January 1997 Florida legislation that approved name reporting of HIV cases.
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