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	Regarding the Appeal of the Public Release of Confidential Files on Franciscan Friars Accused of Sexual Abuse. The SafeNet November 2, 2010 http://www.mysafenet.org/sites/default/files/Q%26A%20with%20Tim%20Hale%202.pdf [Full story] Note: By personal invitation from SafeNet, the ten questions here posed to attorney Timothy Hale were contributed by various clergy abuse survivors and secondary survivors of Saint Anthony’s Seminary in Santa Barbara, California. The school was administered by the Franciscan religious order (Order Friars Minor) in the Province of St. Barbara (Oakland, California), from 1897 until it closed in 1987. All respondents were students at Saint Anthony’s Seminary, covering the years 1958 thru 1984. Question 1 Why did the plaintiffs demand that the psychotherapists evaluations be released? Hale: Plaintiffs did not demand the release of the evaluations. They demanded and the Franciscans agreed to a process whereby Judge Lichtman could review and authorize the release of the perpetrators' entire personnel files. Those files contained, among other things, the psychotherapists' evaluations. The purpose of the disclosure was to prevent today's children from suffering abuse by these men and other Franciscan perpetrators.
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