Court-mandated reports about Erie County’s compliance with a federal directive to improve health and safety conditions in its suicide-plagued jails have been ordered unsealed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
“Neither experience nor logic” supports a 2011 order by Western District Judge William Skretny (See Profile) sealing the reports in a case where “every aspect” has otherwise been public, the circuit decided unanimously in United States of America v. Erie County, New York, 13-3653-cv on Monday.
