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Abstract: 

In late May of 2004, Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch filed a very public lawsuit against Minneapolis’ Concordia Care Center, a privately-owned nursing home. The lawsuit alleged, among other things, that the facility exposed its residents to dangerous sex offenders. There had been five sex offenders placed in the 94-bed home between 2000 and early 2004, he said, and three of those offenders had stalked, fondled, or otherwise assaulted other nursing home residents. The story got a lot of press, in part due to the fact that some officials accused the Attorney General of filing the lawsuit for political purposes. Perhaps lending credence to this theory, the Attorney General did threaten to file criminal charges against public officials for placing sex of - fenders in nursing homes, allegedly to access federal Medicaid funds. The article discusses the case and its ramifications.

Keywords: Public Information vs. Privacy Rights; Analysis of Registered Offenders in Nursing Homes; nursing home marketing

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