State v. Welty

OPINION

HOWE, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 In this consolidated special action, the State seeks relief from the trial courts’ order compelling the disclosure of victims’ birth dates to the Real Parties in Interest. We accept jurisdiction and grant relief because victims’ birth dates are personally identifying information protected by the Victims’ Bill of Rights.

PACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2 The first Real Party in Interest, James Dean Koontz, is charged with one count of aggravated assault, a class 6 felony, for assaulting his girlfriend’s six-year-old child. Because the child is a minor, her parents…