LOS ANGELES (CA)
Catholic Sentinel
Catholic News Service
LOS ANGELES — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles must reveal the names of church officials included in 30,000 pages of personnel files that will be released with information related to allegations of child sexual abuse by church employees, a Superior Court judge ruled Jan. 7.
The Associated Press and Los Angeles Times reported that Judge Emilie H. Elias reversed a previous ruling by a retired federal judge who had said that material to be released should have names redacted to prevent the documents’ use to “embarrass or ridicule the church.”
During a Jan. 7 hearing on a request by media organizations to order the names to be released, Elias asked an attorney for the archdiocese, “Don’t you think the public has a right to know … what was going on in their own church?” the Times reported.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles said in a brief statement that Elias had revised the previous judge’s order “acknowledging that much of the information in question has already been made public by the archdiocese in the 2004 “Report to the People of God” and updates released in the subsequent proffers.”
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