Office of Information Practices

Opinion Letter No. 91-33
December 31, 1991
Ambulance Report About Deceased Individual

[To the extent that it holds that an individual’s privacy interest is extinguished by death, this opinion was overruled by OIP Opinion Letter Number 03-19, which concluded that an individual’s privacy interest in health information and reputational and family related privacy interests survive death but diminish with the passage of time.]

An ambulance report about a deceased individual must be made available for public inspection and copying under the UIPA, since an individual’s privacy interests under the UIPA are generally extinguished upon that individual’s death.

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