ALBANY (NY)
Times Union
September 30, 2019
By Cayla Harris
But lawyers say priests’ personnel files should be a matter of public record
About a month before the Child Victims Act went into effect, the Albany Diocese created a new position – a “process manager” – to oversee the handling of child abuse complaints.
Shortly after the opening of the act’s one-year look-back window – which temporarily allows survivors of all ages to sue their alleged abusers – the diocese also hired a second investigative firm to help internally probe accusations of misconduct. Now, the diocese is exploring digital record-keeping alternatives to dated stacks of paper files.
It’s just a sampling of the steps local dioceses across the state have taken to examine allegations, many of them new, of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
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