Jill Burke reports:
The trial of an Anchorage man accused of sexual assault has forced the Alaska courts to address a challenging question: Should a victim’s private medical and mental health records be fair game? At stake is the proper balance in Alaska between a crime victim’s right to privacy and a criminal defendant’s right to confront his or her accuser.
Read more on Alaska Dispatch. I wish Ms. Burke hadn’t included so much detail about the alleged crime and had focused the article more on the issue of victim privacy rights vs. the defendant’s rights, but it’s still worth reading.