"Illinois once provided the public with detailed histories of the
state's doctors — including whether the physician was convicted of a
crime, fired by a hospital or forced to make a medical malpractice
payment within the previous five years.
Judging from online
traffic, there was great hunger for that information: During the two
years that they were posted, the physician profiles generated 130,000
clicks per week.
But access to the profiles came to a screeching
halt in February, when the state Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation removed them from its Web site and placed them
under lock and key — the latest chapter in a long political battle that
has pitted patients' advocates against the state's medical lobby.
Now the only information available to the public is whether the regulatory agency has disciplined the doctor."
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California Closing Criminal Records
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SB-731 Automatically Sealing of Conviction and Arrest Records A social
justice bill that implements a system to prospectively and retroactively
seal conv...
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