Legal Opinion
Officer Melissa Kallstrom v. City of Columbus
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 12, 1998No. 96-3853PublishedCited by 414 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
We are called upon in this appeal to consider whether the plaintiffs, undercover officers for the Columbus Police Department, have a privacy interest of a constitutional dimension in certain personal information contained in their personnel files. We hold that the plaintiffs do indeed have a constitutionally protected privacy interest under the substantive component of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. Accordingly, we conclude that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the City of Columbus (“the City”) from disclosing certain personal information…
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