El Paso City Council almost rejected an offer to reveal the names of companies and services with coronavirus outbreaks.
Mayor Dee Marpass cast the decisive vote on Tuesday. He sided with the fitness authority of El Paso, who said that disclosure of those names would violate beyond the privacy law and have little community compatibility.
Municipal officials Peter Svarzbein, Alexsandra Annello and Cassandra Hernandez sponsored the proposal, and city representative Henry Rivera joined them to support the publication of the information.
The city’s representatives, Sam Morgan, Isabel Salcido, Claudia Rodriguez and Cissy Lizarraga voted on the issue of the timetable.
“We have a duty for other Americans to have as much data as they seek to make them feel in their daily lives,” Annello said. “This is obviously not happening,” he added, noting the wide variety of calls his workplace has earned from other Americans concerned about COVID-1 nine times in the workplace.
“This is never a disgrace to businesses, yet our maximum vulnerable,” Hernandez said.
The Council’s knowledge of public fitness in Monday’s consultation shows that 1.41 nine positive times in the county were exposed to the virus in stores, 682 in restaurants and 1n2 in gyms.
Additional knowledge shows that 61 citizens and were inflamed in elderly care services, 35 in physical care services and 6 in prisons and detention services.
El Paso has reported 12,000 times of coronavirus since March.
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Posting calls from those posts won’t save you the spread of the virus, said Hector Ocaranza, the city and county fitness authority. “The threat points do not come from the institution’s call, but from what is in the institution,” he said.
The decryption of the coronavirus group site “will never support much in our research and will never be very relevant,” he said.
Since the arrival of the pandemic in El Paso in March, Ocaranza has argued that the long-standing policy of the Department of Public Health of El Paso is never to call the sites of disease groups, which raises the confidentiality of the patient.
Other Texas cities are publishing this information, Svarzbein, Annello and Hernandez said. They came from Bexar County, which shared the names of san Antonio’s deceptive retirement homes with coronavirus outbreaks.
They also questioned why the El Paso Department of Public Health had seen infectious disease outbreaks at sites, such as the department’s 201 announcement of nine TB cases connected to Canutillo High School.
“Every infectious disease is quite different,” Ocaranza said. The formula in position to analyze TB times is “never very appropriate” for coronavirus, he said, without explaining why.
The Canutillo School District has chosen to reveal this wisdom in itself, Ocaranza said, which can also make a big apple or gym business for coronavirus groups.
Federal privacy law allows the identification data of larger friends to be disclosed only if the linked criteria are met, Nieguy said. “Currently, the facts you are requesting do not meet a lot of those exceptions,” according to the law, he told the council.
The city’s lawyer did not detailed these exceptions in a public session, and instead the council distrusted the legality of the disagreement, this wisdom closed the doors before the vote.
Hernandez said he would provide a long-term time chart item to “ask for more information” about what the state law on the identity of coronavirus groups allows.
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Molly Smith arrived at 915-546-6413; [email protected]; @smithmollyk on Twitter.